Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (02-20-2022) #767: Featuring Keirsten Forsyth, Julie Forbes, and Laurie Zaleski. Dr Keirsten Forsyth is a veterinarian who is part of the research team at Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences that is studying rapamycin in the Dog Aging Project to see whether it may […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (08-15-2021) #740: Featuring Dr. Eric Tourigny, Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado, and Dr. Melissa Shapiro. Three very different doctors are guests this week, with very different interests. Professor Eric Tourigny in England did a study to discover peoples’ responses to the question “Do All Dogs go to Heaven?” and wrote about […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (03-21-2020) #667: Featuring Dr Ernie Ward, and Carlyn Montes de Oca. Veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward has a long discussion about the future of man-made “meat,” both for pets and for people, drawing on research about worldwide efforts to come up with meat alternatives in his book THE CLEAN PET FOOD […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (10-05-2019) #643: Featuring Hannah Shaw, Melinda Friedman, and Ken Hill. Hannah Shaw, well-known to cat lovers as “The Kitten Lady,” talks about how to care for the smallest, most fragile kittens in her book TINY BUT MIGHTY; filmmaker Melinda Friedman’s documentary “Vancouver: A Dogumentary” will give the audience at the […]
Celebrate Your Vet Tech! Whenever I go for an appointment at the vet, the first person my dogs and I are greeted by is the veterinary technician. She is like a warm friendly maitre d’ at a nice restaurant — making sure we feel welcome and getting everything set up for us. I think it’s […]
Authors On Animals (01-26-2015) #117: Veterinarian Dr James Mahoney wrote ELEPHANTS TO MICE: Animals Who Have Touched My Soul are stories of a cast of creatures who left a permanent mark on him in a thought-provoking collection of issues such as whether animals experience the same types of emotions as humans, whether it is right […]
Dog Talk (7/12/2014) #379: Author and Alaskan aficionado Nick Jans talks about the courtship between one of his dogs and a huge wild wolf in A WOLF CALLED ROMEO, which dispels many of the myths in the demonization and misunderstanding of wolves; Marcy, a co-host from GOOD DOGS! on the Radio Pet Lady Network, talks […]
The Pet Cancer Vet (6-23-2014) #2029: Tracie talks to Dr. Sue about her own beloved young dog Teddy, who died of a brutally rapid cancer in just one week from when symptoms appeared. They discuss what diagnostics and treatments might have been done instead and the vital importance of good communication and a shared plan […]
