Veterinarians | Talking Animals

Dr. Holly Dutton, about Holiday-related emergency vet visits

Duncan — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:08:51 +0000

Dr. Holly Dutton–Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets, a national operation specializing in around-the-clock emergency care for pets—reviews some of the VEG ER distinguishing traits we covered in her June 2025 appearance on “Talking Animals,” as a prelude to today’s discussion focusing on Holiday-related emergency vet visits, and […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, veterinarian & founder of The Paw Project

Duncan — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:08:46 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—veterinarian, founder of The Paw Project, tireless crusader against declawing cats for a quarter century—recalls the initial impetus for her anti-declaw advocacy: her work, as a newly-minted veterinarian, with declawed big cats at a wildlife sanctuary. Conrad’s own history ended up dovetailing with answering my question about the history of feline declaw itself, […]

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Dr. Crystal Heath, veterinarian and activist

Duncan — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:08:23 +0000

Dr. Crystal Heath–a veterinarian who’s bristled at inhumane treatment of animals throughout her career, and before, dating back to her childhood as a 4-H kid discovering the goats she’d raised would be slaughtered—recalls growing up in a rural part of Northern California, adoring animals and riding horses. Dr. Heath, a speaker at the Tampa Bay […]

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Dr. Holly Dutton, Medical Director VEG ER for Pets

Duncan — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:42:05 +0000

Dr. Holly Dutton, Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets–a national enterprise that specializes in providing around-the-clock emergency and critical care services for pets—flips the script on my mention of the countless guests who work with animals in some capacity, grew up wanting to be a veterinarian, but for […]

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Dr. Alex Travis, director of Cornell Public Health and chair of the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

Duncan — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:52:53 +0000

Dr. Alex Travis–director of Cornell Public Health and chair of the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine—explains exactly what his extended job title involves, noting that he brings being both a veterinarian and PhD scientist to discharging his duties. Joining me on “Talking Animals” to discuss bird […]

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Dr. Marcie Fallek, veterinarian and author of “Little Miracles Everywhere: My Unorthodox Path to Holistic Veterinary Medicine”

Duncan — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:45:41 +0000

Dr. Marcie Fallek–a veteran veterinarian and author of the memoir, “Little Miracles Everywhere: My Unorthodox Path to Holistic Veterinary Medicine”—recalls what prompted her to attend veterinary school in Italy. Fallek enumerates the significant challenges of being a vet student there, most notably that she didn’t speak any Italian when she started—meaning that studying her notes […]

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Dr. Daniel Promislow, principal investigator of The Dog Aging Project

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:00:54 +0000

Dr. Daniel Promislow–a biogerontologist, professor at the University of Washington, and principal investigator of The Dog Aging Project, a long-term study of health and longevity in dogs—recounts the genesis of the Project. **NOTE: There is static on the line during the first portion of the interview; it does clear up. He explains that it was […]

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A Discussion All About Making Homemade Dog Food

Duncan — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 04:00:56 +0000

Today’s program was unusual in a few ways, not least that I interviewed more guests than usual—and that those guests consisted of family (Karen Allanson, my wife’s cousin) and friends (Kathryn & Kevin Szalasny, whose son and our son were best friends growing up). These three were brimming with self-taught expertise about the topic at […]

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Valerie Benka, Director of Programs for the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs

Duncan — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 04:00:18 +0000

Valerie Benka–the Director of Programs for the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D)—recalls being someone who was nuts about animals from the time she was a kid, growing up in a family amidst a veritable menagerie. This early pet passion created something of a gravitational pull, drawing Benka toward animals, as she traveled […]

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Dr. Eric Eisenman, founder of International Veterinary Outreach (IVO)

Duncan — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:00:50 +0000

Dr. Eric Eisenman discusses founding International Veterinary Outreach (IVO), which provides veterinary services and training to rural areas in countries sorely lacking both.

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Kimberly Carroll, Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant

Duncan — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:14 +0000

Kimberly Carroll— a veteran Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant—recalls growing up in Manitoba, a sensitive child with a precocious connection to animals, yet like her family members and most fellow Manitobans, she was also an enthusiastic meat eater. Carroll recounts that falling for twin calves during a calving season—while pondering what fate befell most […]

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Rebekah Keat and Siri Lindley, activists working to end horse slaughter

Duncan — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:00:17 +0000

Rebekah Keat and Siri Lindley—highly vocal (and highly effective, as it turns out) advocates for ending horse slaughter—recall a pivotal horse, Savannah, who served as a catalyst for their advocacy. Lindley remembers having some of the equipment for a horse, and the inclination to rescue one, before Savannah entered her life. But it was a […]

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Tricia Gorham, chair of the College of Veterinary Technology at St. Petersburg College

Duncan — Wed, 18 May 2022 04:00:29 +0000

Tricia Gorham–chair of the College of Veterinary Technology at St. Petersburg College, and a practicing veterinary technician since 1991—discusses her love of animals extending back to childhood, and how she began working for a veterinarian as a junior in high school. That job, she explains, was hardly just another teenage gig—she not only gravitated toward […]

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Helaine Olen, opinion writer for The Washington Post

Duncan — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:00:24 +0000

Helaine Olen— an opinion writer for The Washington Post, an expert on personal finance, and author or co-author of books, including “The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated,” who recently wrote a Post piece headlined “Stop the inhumane practice of renting pets”—addresses the breadth of subjects covered in her column, which […]

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Dr. Heather Johnston, Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:00:57 +0000

Dr. Heather Johnston—a veterinarian who serves as the Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida that, in celebration of March being Women’s History Month, is slated to present a “Women in Wildlife Panel Discussion” there on March 29 (featuring Johnston)—recalls that she wanted to be a vet since she was […]

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Dr. Dani McVety-Leinen, founder of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, and Ross Taylor, photojournalist-filmmaker

Duncan — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:12:22 +0000

Dr. Dani McVety-Leinen and Ross Taylor—founder of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, and one of two filmmakers who created the documentary “The Hardest Day,” respectively—discuss how the film was conceived, an outgrowth of an acclaimed photo project Taylor (an accomplished, Pulitzer-nominated photojournalist) produced, capturing families saying goodbye to their seriously-ill pets, as Lap of Love […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project, advocate for banning feline declawing

Duncan — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:00:45 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—a veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project, and a tireless crusader against declawing cats for many years; I first interviewed her about it on “Talking Animals” in 2005, and she’d already been working on the issue for some time—recounts the initial impetus for taking on the cause, spurred by performing reparative surgery […]

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Dr. Dani McVety, co-founder of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice

Duncan — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:00:56 +0000

Dr. Dani McVety—the veterinarian, and Tampa native, who co-founded Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice in 2009—recounts the circumstances behind launching what has since become the nation’s largest network dedicated to end of life veterinary care, operating in 36 states. McVety provides an overview of how Lap of Love works, describing how and when one of […]

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Julie Castle, CEO of Best Friends Animal Society

Duncan — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:00:41 +0000

Julie Castle—the CEO of Best Friends Animal Society, the national animal welfare organization, founded in 1984, and based in Kanab, Utah—describes the organization currently in broad strokes, offering notable contrasts to when she scrapped plans for law school and began working there some 25 years ago, as just the 17th employee of this now-sprawling entity. […]

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Dr. Valarie Tynes, Veterinary Services Specialist at CEVA Animal Health Limited

Duncan — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:00:59 +0000

Dr. Valarie Tynes—Veterinary Services Specialist at CEVA Animal Health Limited, in Kansas, and a veterinarian slated to deliver two lectures at VMX, the then-forthcoming gigantic veterinary education conference held in Orlando (and virtually) June 5-9—traces the arc of her career. This arc includes a small animal practice for 14 years, before deciding to act on […]

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Babs Fry, pet recovery specialist

Duncan — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:00:15 +0000

Babs Fry—a San Diego-based pet recovery specialist (she’s often dubbed a “pet detective,” but prefers the other term, and explains why), who for several years, has helped pet owners find their missing animals, never charging a dime for her services–discusses how she got launched on this esoteric career path. Fry describes her background in animal […]

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Dr. Chris Pachel, veterinary behaviorist

Duncan — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:00:39 +0000

Dr. Chris Pachel —a veterinary behaviorist who owns, and is the primary clinician at, the Animal Behavior Clinic, in Portland, Oregon—recounts how he’d wanted to be a veterinarian since childhood, though in some of those earliest years, he wasn’t quite sure what a veterinarian was. He describes the impetus for, after graduating from veterinary school, […]

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Panel Discussion by Veterinarians: Drs. Hess, Sebzda, and Woon

Duncan — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:00:21 +0000

For this edition of “Talking Animals,” we set aside the show’s usual format in favor of convening a panel of three veterinarians for a discussion of ethics and other topics. This approach was spurred, in part, by the news last year about that Virginia woman who was very ill, and had her healthy Shih Tzu […]

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Dr. Sue Ettinger, veterinary cancer specialist

Duncan — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:00:47 +0000

Dr. Sue Ettinger—a veterinary cancer specialist, aka “Dr. Sue Cancer Vet”—recalls her road to becoming a vet, after briefly entertaining the idea of pursuing a career involving art history. She describes how she traveled a somewhat serendipitous path that deposited Ettinger at her professional focus on oncology. Underscoring her passionate belief in the importance of […]

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Dr. Kathleen Schnaars Uvino (“Dr. Kit”), professor of biology and ecology at the University of Jamestown

Duncan — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:00:16 +0000

Dr. Kathleen Schnaars Uvino—aka “Dr. Kit,” a professor of Biology and Ecology at the University of Jamestown, where she oversees the Tree Swallow Project, which is carried out in two countries: in Jamestown, North Dakota, and in Churchill, Manitoba—discusses her transition from toiling in the corporate world in Manhattan (rising to Director of Technology at […]

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Rick Kriseman, Passionately Pro-Pet Mayor of St. Petersburg, FL

Duncan — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Rick Kriseman—the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, who, a year ago, signed a proclamation declaring St. Petersburg a pet-friendly city—recounts growing up loving animals, dogs in particular. Mayor Kriseman describes how he and his family got started as puppy raisers for Southeastern Guide Dogs, bringing home their first assigned puppy, Jim, when he was 12 […]

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Steve Mornelli, founder and CEO of Waggle

Duncan — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 04:00:45 +0000

Steve Mornelli—the founder and CEO of Waggle, a crowdfunding website dedicated to helping animals in need of veterinary care whose families cannot afford their bills—recalls being an animal lover since he was a kid, living with pets at all phases of his life, including while he was in college and grad school. Still, he notes, […]

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Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:29 +0000

Amy Kight—newly named executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary (though she’s worked at the Jupiter, FL wildlife refuge, hospital, rehabilitation facility, and educational center since 2004)—discusses being so passionate about working with animals and so eager to do so as a very determined little kid that she landed a gig helping out at a veterinarian’s […]

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Dr. Dani McVety, hospice veterinarian

Duncan — Wed, 31 May 2017 04:00:59 +0000

Dr. Dani McVety—a Tampa native and veterinarian who co-founded Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice in 2009, and it’s since become the nation’s largest network dedicated solely to end of life veterinary care–recounts the history of the enterprise, launching Lap of Love mere months after graduating from vet school, the name deriving from an early case […]

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Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, veteran veterinarian and comedian

Duncan — Wed, 24 May 2017 04:00:21 +0000

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald—a veterinarian for 35 years, featured on Animal Planet’s “Emergency Vets,” which aired for 11 seasons—recounts his pre-vet, 25-year stint working security for Rolling Stones tours, and how that period ended when Keith Richards urged him to get on with his life, maybe go back to school. Fitzgerald explains how, in heeding Richards’ […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project

Duncan — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:00:53 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—the veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project, which has long educated the public about the painful and crippling effects of feline declawing, and who, as of this interview, has made more appearances on “Talking Animals” than any other guest–reviews what exactly the feline declaw procedure involves. She notes that the term is […]

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Dr. Laurie Hess, veterinarian for exotic pets, author of “Unlikely Companions”

Duncan — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Dr. Laurie Hess—a veterinarian specializing in caring for exotic pets, and author of the new book “Unlikely Companions: The Adventures Of An Exotic Animal Doctor”—recounts growing up in a family that embraced a wide array of pets, how she herself loved animals as a child, and that’s also when she decided she wanted to be a […]

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Cheryl Brady, founder of Vet Care Express Ambulance

Duncan — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:00:58 +0000

Cheryl Brady—founder and owner of Vet Care Express Ambulance, which is designed to help pet owners, emergency vet clinics, veterinarians, humane societies and other entities in situations where an animal is injured or severely ill, and time is of the essence for medical treatment—recalls the work she was doing before launching Vet Care Express. Brady […]

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Dr. Anne Lampru, veteran holistic veterinarian

Duncan — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:34:25 +0000

Dr. Anne Lampru — a Tampa-based holistic veterinarian who has practiced for more than 30 years —discusses the formative stages of her career, including graduating from Auburn University Veterinary School, with an academic emphasis on treating zoo animals and a corresponding professional ambition, which is what first brought her to Tampa. Lampru (who, it should be […]

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Dr. Scott Sims, star of “Aloha Vet”

Duncan — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 04:00:05 +0000

Dr. Scott Sims—a veterinarian based on Kauai who travels across all the Hawaiian islands, treating a huge array of animals, often piloting his own plane to reach these clients, and is at the center of “Aloha Vet,” a new TV series on the Nat Geo Wild network—recounts what attracted him so potently to Kauai that […]

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Dr. Vint Virga, veterinarian and animal behaviorist

Duncan — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:49:09 +0000

Dr. Vint Virga—veterinarian, animal behaviorist and author of “The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human”—explains how the anti-zoo view he held earlier in his career evolved into seeing zoos in a more positive light. He also assesses whether there’s been a parallel shift in the public perception of […]

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Dr. Melanie Butera, veterinarian and adoptive mom to Dillie The Deer

Duncan — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:00:50 +0000

Dr. Melanie Butera—a veterinarian who lives in Canal Fulton Ohio, but may be far better known as the adoptive “mom” to Dillie The Deer—recounts how Dillie entered her life, as a baby deer born blind and rejected by her mother, brought to Dr. Butera quite sickly and frail. She explains that, through a confluence of multiple […]

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Dr. Hillary Hart, veterinarian

Duncan — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:00:15 +0000

Dr. Hillary Hart—a Tampa Bay Area veterinarian who operates Vet With Hart Veterinary House Call Practice—describes how she raised a family and then, when on the cusp of empty nest syndrome, decided to attend veterinary school, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Noting that vet school under those circumstances was both grueling and exhilarating, Hart explains how, […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project

Duncan — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:00:29 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project—explains exactly what de-clawing is, confronting head-on what for many is a confusing misnomer by noting that it’s “de-knuckling,” that the de-claw surgery actually involves amputating parts of the cat’s bones. She discusses the new documentary film, also called “The Paw Project,” which chronicles her work—The Paw […]

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Callers And E-Mailers As Guests

Duncan — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:50 +0000

As part of an ongoing effort to continue experimenting with different approaches to presenting guests and information on “Talking Animals”–and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders–we returned to a format we try to employ once or twice a year. We invited people to call in and […]

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Dr. Marty Becker, Veterinarian and author, most recently of “Your Cat: The Owner’s Manual”

Duncan — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:00:37 +0000

Dr. Marty Becker–veterinarian and longtime presence on “Good Morning, America” and, more recently, a contributor to “The Dr. Oz Show”–discusses a number of the important details and suggestions included in his latest of 20 books, “Your Cat: The Owner’s Manual: Hundreds of Secrets, Surprises, And Solutions For Raising A Happy Healthy Cat.” These include the […]

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Dr. Walter Burghardt, Jr., veterinarian & expert on canine PTSD

Duncan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:27 +0000

Dr. Walter Burghardt, Jr.–veterinarian, chief of behavioral medicine since 1995 at the Daniel E. Holland Military Working Dog Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base, and considered the leading authority on canine post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)–describes the Hospital and the scope of its staff and services, and what it means to be responsible for the […]

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Dr. Dani McVety, hospice veterinarian

Duncan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:26 +0000

Dr. Dani McVety–a Lutz-based veterinarian specializing in hospice care and euthanasia, whose practice is called Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice–discusses her background, how her veterinary school training and initial work as an emergency medicine vet prompted her to start her hospice practice. Noting that there’s typically little or no hospice curriculum at vet school, Dr. […]

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Dr. Kim Haddad–Veterinarian and manager of The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition

libby — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:28:28 +0000

Dr. Kim Haddad, a veterinarian and manager of The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition–a group of zoo professionals, sanctuary operators and animal protection groups (including some surprising bedfellows), who’ve banded together to focus their attention, and ours, on the problems and perils of keeping wild animals as pets–discusses the way the Coalition came together, its […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad–Director of The Paw Project

libby — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:00:16 +0000

Wildlife veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad–Director of The Paw Project, which seeks to educate the public about the often-crippling effects of feline declawing, rehabilitate big cats that have been declawed, and marshal endeavors to end declawing, including spearheading the effort to pass California’s brand new law that bans declawing of wild and exotic cats–discusses her longstanding […]

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Walter Boyce–Director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center

libby — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:00:21 +0000

Walter Boyce–Director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, wildlife veterinarian and researcher and the expert various state & county agencies bring in when there’s been a mountain lion attack, or to assess the threat of one–discusses various aspects of mountain lion behavior, what prompts the attacks (still extremely rare) & how to respond, as […]

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Dr. Kathryn Marocchino–founder and president of The Nikki Hospice Foundation For Pets

libby — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:00:53 +0000

Dr. Kathryn Marocchino–founder and president of The Nikki Hospice Foundation For Pets–discusses the genesis of the Foundation (including the awful final days & moments of the Marocchinos’ late, beloved cat Nikki), how the national program currently operates, where it’s headed over time, as well as the various resources it provides on its website & through […]

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Dr. Mary Sebzda–veterinarian extraordinaire

libby — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:00:57 +0000

Local veterinarian extraordinaire Dr. Mary Sebzda–the only guest thus far to make multiple appearances on “Talking Animals”–returns to discuss and answer caller questions about such Summer pet concerns as greater vigilance against fleas, higher incidence of allergies, and tips for traveling with animals by plane or car. She also discussed various facets of microchips, addressed […]

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Dr. Mary Sebzda–Local veterinarian

libby — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:00:07 +0000

Local veterinarian Dr. Mary Sebzda–who was first a guest on June 23, 2003–returns to discuss pet obesity and how a visiting animal introduced into a household can trigger stress (including diarrhea) in the resident animals, and takes caller questions on “hot spots” and the best techniques for giving an animal a pill. [www.newportharborvets.com.] COMEDY […]

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Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald–veterinarian star of “Emergency Vets”

libby — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:00:31 +0000

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald–veteran Denver-based veterinarian, star of the Animal Planet series “Emergency Vets,” stand-up comic and former longtime member of the security detail for the Rolling Stones–discussing various elements of his career and points they dovetail, including Keith Richards persuading him to attend vet school! [www.AnimalPlanet.com, www.AlamedaEast.com] COMEDY CORNER: Larry The Cable Guy’s “Shepherd Dog […]

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Dr. Sophia Yin–veterinarian-researcher-author

libby — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:00:42 +0000

Dr. Sophia Yin, a veterinarian-researcher-author, discussing her pioneering research on dog barks and what they mean. www.nerdbook.com COMEDY CORNER: Brian Regan’s “Dog Barking” [www.BrianRegan.com] MUSIC: The Specials’ “Do The Dog,” Kirk Olsen’s “An Old Dog’s Song,” Aimee Mann’s “The Moth,” instrumentals. NAME THAT ANIMAL TUNE: Tom Jones’ “What’s New Pussycat?”

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Dr. Mary Sebzda–veterinarian

libby — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:00:42 +0000

GUEST: veterinarian Dr. Mary Sebzda [www.newportharborvets.com] discussing the new article in Consumer Reports about vet practices and prices, plus how to find a good vet, get an estimate or second opinion, etc. COMEDY CORNER: Woody Allen’s “The Moose.” MUSIC: Laurel Canyon Animal Co.’s “Litterbox Boogie,” John Hiatt’s “My Dog & Me,” instrumentals. NAME THAT ANIMAL […]

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