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Inspiring a host of questions (and maybe a complaint or two of shortsightedness to the creators) THQ has built Nintendo a new electronic venue for "alternative medicine" for pets without actually having pets — or actually doing any justice at all the concept of alt med for pets.

Paws & Claws Pet Vet2: Healing Hands, child of P&CPVHH, adds a bunch of cute animals and new ways to customize your veterinary office to the original. Basically, a gamer gets to be a fake vet and make gamish decisions about what to stock and how to treat their clientele. What it doesn't do is take into account much real life vetting, including any approach at all that is not traditionally medical.

Are kids — presumably the audience — not actually ready for keeping electronic animals healthy except by fixing through drugs and surgery what has gone wrong with them? Seems kinda unlikely. Anyway, we look forward to V.3 with hopes they'll get it right.