BluePearl Pet Hospital

Later on, Mars also bought out the Iams and the Eukanuba pet food business from Procter & Gamble in a deal of roughly $2.9 billion reported at the time, consolidating the premium and then super premium shelf space at U.S. pet stores as well as veterinary clinics.

Blue Pearl Veterinary Partners was purchased in 2015.

And Blue Pearl, a specialty in emergency veterinary hospital network, gave Mars a foothold in higher acuity care.

The specialist referral hospitals that General Practices send complicated cases to.

She's still wheezing.

So we ended up having to run into Blue Pearl in Renton, the animal hospital there.

$1,600 later, they removed a chicken bone from her throat because it got lodged right where her windpipe splits to both lungs.

The bone got lodged and was preventing her from breathing.

She's still wheezing.

So we ended up having to run into Blue Pearl in Renton, the animal hospital there.

$1,600 later, they removed a chicken bone from her throat because it got lodged right where her windpipe splits to both lungs.

The bone got lodged and was preventing her from breathing.

There's always multiple reasons.

And, um, so I did an internship at Florida Veterinary Specialists, which actually then became the first BluePearl.

This was before it was BluePearl.

And so I was in an internship for two months or so, maybe almost three months, and then I got diagnosed with cancer, and that changed everything, as those diagnoses do.

Yeah.

[upbeat music] Well, both humans and dogs will benefit from a blood drive that happened in Langhorne today.

Blue Pearl Animal Hospital partnered with the Red Cross to host a blood drive for pet owners.

People who signed up to donate were also able to check if their dogs are eligible to be donors as well.

Many pet owners are not aware of the need for blood donations for pets.