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Model Patient: Smokey the German Shepherd isn't really hurt, but he lets roving Mississauga vet Kevin Saldanha, in front, with student steve Rochon, demonstrate his emergency service
Model Patient: Smokey the German Shepherd isn't really hurt, but he lets roving Mississauga vet Kevin Saldanha, in front, with student steve Rochon, demonstrate his emergency service

Model Patient: Smokey the German Shepherd isn't really hurt, but he lets roving Mississauga vet Kevin Saldanha, in front, with student steve Rochon, demonstrate his emergency service

Date6/8/1990
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Fluff Ball: Dr. Kevin Saldanha of Mississauga's Creditview Animal Hospital implants microchip into a cat with the help of Rose Nigrello. If pet gets lost, its microchip number can be read by scanners at shelters.
Fluff Ball: Dr. Kevin Saldanha of Mississauga's Creditview Animal Hospital implants microchip into a cat with the help of Rose Nigrello. If pet gets lost, its microchip number can be read by scanners at shelters.
1/26/1998
Cleaning up: Gary Rochon wears a white laboratory coat and white gloves to clean the chandelier in the Royal York Hotel's concert hall
Cleaning up: Gary Rochon wears a white laboratory coat and white gloves to clean the chandelier in the Royal York Hotel's concert hall
9/2/1988
Puppy love isn't saddling Metro with as many unwanted pets as it used to, says George Banton, chief animal control officer for the Borough of York. Above, he displays one of the York animal shelter's inmates, a young part-German Shepherd. The animal shelter now has empty cages and Banton gives the credit to the borough's low-cost spay-neuter program, begun two years ago.
Puppy love isn't saddling Metro with as many unwanted pets as it used to, says George Banton, chief animal control officer for the Borough of York. Above, he displays one of the York animal shelter's inmates, a young part-German Shepherd. The animal shelter now has empty cages and Banton gives the credit to the borough's low-cost spay-neuter program, begun two years ago.
6/15/1978
Emergency help: Ontarians don't have to look south of the border for examples of the efficiency of paramedical teams, says Dr. Kevin Murphy, British Columbia has had such a program since 1972.
Emergency help: Ontarians don't have to look south of the border for examples of the efficiency of paramedical teams, says Dr. Kevin Murphy, British Columbia has had such a program since 1972.
5/24/1980
Manuel castro expects sales to top $500,000 this year from his roving hot dog stands and spinoff business selling food products and carts to competitors.
Manuel castro expects sales to top $500,000 this year from his roving hot dog stands and spinoff business selling food products and carts to competitors.
2/8/1990
Praised by peers: The Ontario Veterinary Association has named Dr. Paul McCutcheon 1979 vet of the year. Here is his East York office, the vet works on a patient named Askhim. The relationship between people and animals, he says, is symbolic of our ability to live with nature.
Praised by peers: The Ontario Veterinary Association has named Dr. Paul McCutcheon 1979 vet of the year. Here is his East York office, the vet works on a patient named Askhim. The relationship between people and animals, he says, is symbolic of our ability to live with nature.
11/14/1979
Vet and pet: Dr. Donald MacDonald warns pet owners against believing all those rumors about animals. Here he smiles at a stray six-week-old puppy, brought in with an injured eye and now in good shape again.
Vet and pet: Dr. Donald MacDonald warns pet owners against believing all those rumors about animals. Here he smiles at a stray six-week-old puppy, brought in with an injured eye and now in good shape again.
7/22/1983
Wider, please: Dr. Seymour Tobe checks out the mouth of his patient, a Doberman named Vinny, who needs a brace to correct an out-of-place tooth. The veterinary dentist says although many vets will clean animals' teeth, he's the only one in Metro performing a full range of dental services, including braces, fillings and extractions.
Wider, please: Dr. Seymour Tobe checks out the mouth of his patient, a Doberman named Vinny, who needs a brace to correct an out-of-place tooth. The veterinary dentist says although many vets will clean animals' teeth, he's the only one in Metro performing a full range of dental services, including braces, fillings and extractions.
4/16/1985
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
11/18/1983
Outside. Lineman Norm Olan was planning to have a quiet dinner Sunday. But an 'emergency' telephone call abruptly changed his plans. Instead he spent the next 23 hours shinning up and down icy power lines in freezing rain. It didn't take Olan long to see that the so called emergency was, in fact, a disaster.
Outside. Lineman Norm Olan was planning to have a quiet dinner Sunday. But an 'emergency' telephone call abruptly changed his plans. Instead he spent the next 23 hours shinning up and down icy power lines in freezing rain. It didn't take Olan long to see that the so called emergency was, in fact, a disaster.
1/18/1968
Antonio Scopelliti: A gentle shepherd who came thousands of miles from his native Italy, only to find himself embroiled in a killing, was acquitted of murder when a jury believed that he was just defending himself
Antonio Scopelliti: A gentle shepherd who came thousands of miles from his native Italy, only to find himself embroiled in a killing, was acquitted of murder when a jury believed that he was just defending himself
4/10/1980
George Shepherd
George Shepherd
9/8/1994