We have just launched our new site on pet health with a comprehensive article on dog diarrhea. Since we did not see anything related to this topic yet on your site we were hoping you could reference the article with a link or we would be happy to swap links if this is beneficial to you. Thank you for your consideration. Tony [email protected]

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Actually, we do have an article about diarrhea in dogs. But we would be happy to consider a link to your article.

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