🐾 Back-to-School Is Hard on Pets Too

Hi friend!

Turns out pets feel the back-to-school shift too, and our friends at Plano Animal Hospital shared a few simple ways to help them adjust to the new routine. That's below, along with this week's picks — and a heads-up that Labor Day weekend is only two weeks away, so it's worth starting to think about plans now.

Hit reply and tell me if your pets have been extra clingy since school started. I want to know I'm not imagining it.

xoxo, Abbie

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