Tag: Pet Oxygen

Outlet: Virginia Beach Beacon

By Melanie Barker, Correspondent

Local pets and their owners can breathe a little easier.

The Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad recently received a donation of 10 kits containing oxygen masks designed specifically for pets. Each kit contains three masks- small, medium and large- that fit over an animal’s muzzle.

The kits will allow the squad – which operates a station at the Oceanfront and one in the Great Neck area – to keep a kit in each of its 10 rescue ambulances. The Invisible Fence Brand of Hampton Roads donated the kits as part the company’s national “Project Breathe” campaign. (more…)

When a neighbor’s house caught fire near Town Center on July 13, Shirley Begay knew no one was home, but she worried about a pet in an upstairs bedroom.

“My first thought was the dog,” she said. “It was too smoky for us to go in, so we had to tell the firefighters where to find him.” (more…)