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Welcome to Paws and Effect, the ultimate Podcast for pet lovers and veterinarians alike! Join renowned veterinarian Dr Carra as they explore the captivating world of pets.
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Inside South Africa's Snaring Crisis (opens the original)
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A loop of wire, tied to a branch, in a patch of bush near a town you might live near. Anything that walks through it, a duiker, a bushpig, a bird, sometimes a leopard, occasionally someone's dog, is caught, and the wire doesn't let go. Cheap, silent, and everywhere. Conservationists call snares the silent killers. Our guest walks that bush and pulls them out. On a bad day, his team finds dozens; they've found eighty in a single day. He's asked to stay anonymous, and once you hear who's on the ot
When ‘Bad Behaviour’ Is Actually a Medical Problem (opens the original)
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Your dog growls when you touch his back. Your cat starts weeing outside the litter box. Your older dog paces at night and stops greeting you at the door. It’s easy to call these things stubbornness, spite, aggression, or just old age. Often, they’re something else entirely, a pet in pain, unwell, or frightened, telling you the only way it can. Veterinary behaviourist Dr Megan Petroff joins me to untangle one of the hardest questions in pet care: when a behaviour change is medical, when it’s beha
Nail Clippers, Carriers and Eye Drops Without the Fight! (opens the original)
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You’ve wrestled a cat into a carrier. You’ve chased a dog around the house with the nail clippers. Now imagine having to give a monkey a daily injection, or getting a tiger to walk up and present its shoulder for one. Zookeepers do it every day. Not by force, they can’t force an animal that size, but by teaching it to take part willingly. And the same thing works on the cat under your bed. Carra sits down with Nicky Plaskitt, who spent over twenty years training zoo and aquarium animals to coope
Your Pet’s Weight Isn’t a Willpower Problem (opens the original)
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You’ve cut the treats. You’re walking them more. They still haven’t lost weight, so you assume you’re doing something wrong. You’re probably not. Dr Ernie Ward has spent over twenty years on pet obesity, and his message is blunt: this was never simply about feeding less and exercising more. It’s biological, it’s medical, and “try harder” is why most weight-loss plans fail. In this episode: Why “feed less, exercise more” doesn’t work for most pets The at-home check that tells you more than the sc
“He’s Just Getting Old” — And Other ‘Reasonable’ Pet Myths | Cat the Vet (opens the original)
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Your old dog is slowing down. Sleeping more. Taking the stairs carefully. He’s just getting old, right? Maybe. Or maybe he’s in pain, and “he’s just getting old” is one of those pet myths that sounds completely reasonable, right up until it costs your pet something. Vet Cat Henstridge joins us to take apart the pet advice that sounds sensible but isn’t, the stuff you’ve half-believed for years: “Bad breath is normal in dogs and cats”, what it’s actually telling you “He’s still eating, so he can’
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