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Our dog was given three
to six months.
She is still here.
When our Aussiedoodle Hazel was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease at 11 months old, we were told to prepare for the worst. Instead, we fought. We researched. We changed everything.
She is now 2.5 years old and thriving. The Daily Dog is the resource we wished we had found.
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