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1198 Shadow Drive
(Off Chuck Dawley in Mt. Pleasant)
Mon-Fri 8am - 5:30pm
843.881.2820
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We Care
For Your
Car
Like We Care
For Our
Pets!
Standing:
Chrissie & Lexas, Willie & Baxter, Bob & Chief, Moe & Shea
Kneeling:
Chris & Butch, Trey & Calypso, Dan &M.J.
Pets can provide physical as well as emotional help for
their owners, even helping to reduce the effects of allergies.
It might seem strange that the very thing that causes aller-
gies – pet dander – can actually end up reducing it, but it’s
true. A study published in
The Journal of Allergy and Clini-
cal Immunology
showed that babies exposed to animals in
their home developed stronger immune systems overall.
Both Dr. Kahuda and Hecker said the species and breed
do not matter when it comes to reducing stress.
“They become family members and provide the connec-
tion and sense of belonging that we as humans crave,” Dr.
Kahuda said.
Caring for an animal teaches the very valid lesson of be-
ing selfless and realizing that someone depends on you for
care and love. Many empty nesters find that owning a pet
provides them with that sense of purpose again that parent-
ing gave them for so many years.
As Hecker put it, “What could be better for our mental
health than knowing that just our existence creates so much
happiness and love in someone else’s life?”
And that, my friends, is why you get a pet – in case you
were on the fence.
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EarthWise Pet Supply
619 Johnnie Dodds Blvd
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
843.388.5225
www.earthwisepet.com(Next to Aldi Grocery)
Locally owned and operated.
All-Natural Pet
Nutrition Market
& Spa.
Our pets deserve to be
healthy too.
Stella & Chewy's
Primal
Grandma Lucy's
The Honest Kitchen
Open Farm
Nutrisource
Pure Vita
Fromm
Acana
Orijen
Nature's Logic
Nulo
Zignature
Earthborn
Health Extension
…and more!