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COVID-19 and pets: A Q&A
By Paw Prints Heidi Bassler, veterinarian
Associated Press illustration
The pet parents’ concern about COVID-19 and how it might affect their pets has heightened in the past few weeks. Recently, we have heard multiple news stories of animals contracting this virus.
First, there were dogs in Hong Kong and a cat in Belgium. Then the infamous story of the tiger and other large cats at the Bronx Zoo. A mink farm in the Netherlands came next. Now more stories of companion animals — cats, dogs, hamsters, and ferrets — in the United States and elsewhere contracting the new coronavirus.
What does this all mean for your pets? Let’s do a quick Q&A with some fact-based information.
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Newly opened Newburyport gallery rides the wind of change
By Terry Date
The Eagle-Tribune
Vintage Chic Anew owner Kimberley Wilson, left, and Newburyport artist Karen Fitzgerald wear their face coverings as they check on the gallery in the story. Bryan Eaton.
The fledgling Pleasant Street Gallery has aged beyond its mere two months, plying, as it has, coronavirus currents.
Framed art fills the walls in neat columns like sails on masts.
Fields, streams, skies, cityscapes and seascapes hang inside the gallery in the Vintage Chic Anew store in downtown Newburyport.
Below the oils, watercolors and photographs sit painted dressers, woven baskets, candlestick holders and vases.
Replicas of vintage signs invite nostalgia.
Seated in chairs at opposite sides of a long table are Newburyport artist Karen Fitzgerald, in a red mask, and store owner Kimberley Wilson, in a blue mask.
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