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…)