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Article: Giving dogs the needle!; HOW ACUPUNCTURE IS HELPING PETS.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- July 3, 1999
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WEST Midland acupuncturist Paul Clusker had so many patients asking if he could treat their pets that he has opened a clinic for dogs.
Paul, who has treated people for 18 years, now turns his Bate Street clinic, Walsall, into an animal hospital every Friday afternoon and is finding no shortage of four-footed patients.
"One day a patient who I treated for arthritis asked me if there was anything I could do for his dog," he says. "He was half-joking, but I told him to bring it in, and we would give it a go.
"The dog responded really well to the ...