Tails of Truth: The Truth about Veterinary Medicine

Tell Us What You Think When a senior dog has a single seizure, most pet parents end up in the emergency room the same night, and many walk out with a prescription for anti-convulsants before anyone's confirmed what caused it. In this episode, Dr. Angie Krause and JoJo unpack why that reflexive approach concerns Dr. Angie after treating six or seven senior dogs with new-onset seizures in just...

Tell Us What You Think Dr. Angie and JoJo take a detour from clinical topics to explore the space where holistic veterinary medicine meets the metaphysical. From animal communicators and crystals to soul contracts and pet reincarnation, this episode is a candid, funny, and surprisingly moving conversation about everything science hasn't caught up to yet. Dr. Angie opens up about growing up in...

Tell Us What You Think Dr. Angie Krause and JoJo break down one of the most common and most misread cat health complaints: peeing outside the litter box. Your cat isn't plotting revenge. They're probably miserable. Whether it's feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC), a stress response you never saw coming, or something more serious hiding underneath, Dr. Angie explains what's actuall...

Tell Us What You Think Turns out there's a lot of ick in tick and in flea, worm, and whatever a screwworm fly is doing, which is frankly worse than the name suggests. Dr. Angie and JoJo recorded this episode six weeks before New World Screwworm was confirmed in dogs in the US, but it seems more timely now than ever. In this episode they cover the parasites they see in practice, where pets pic...

Tell Us What You Think If your dog or cat has ever scratched incessantly and you're left feeling helpless, this one is for you. This week Dr. Angie and JoJo sat down with veterinary dermatologist Dr. Darin Dell of Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital, the specialist Dr. Angie emails almost every week with her toughest itchy cases. Dr. Dell has a gift for taking a frustrating, confusing topic and makin...

Tell Us What You Think Some of the best Tails of Truth conversations happen before anything is planned, so this Friday Dr. Angie and JoJo just pressed record during their weekly check-in. Dr. Angie walks through a vaccine reaction she handled this week, the kind that looks fine in the room and then swells up an hour later, and the honest call she had to make about splitting vaccines. They get into...

Tell Us What You Think Your pet just got a cancer diagnosis. Your first instinct is to wonder what you did wrong. Dr. Brooke Fowler, veterinary oncologist at Veterinary Cancer Services in Boulder, CO, is here for that conversation. The honest answer is: we don't fully know what causes cancer in pets. Genetics, aging, and biology are doing most of the work and the guilt most pet parents carry...

Tell Us What You Think This week's episode is an honest, unfiltered vent session from two people who had a rough week in veterinary medicine and decided to record it. Dr. Angie and JoJo — both sick, both on their second or third round of antibiotics — talk about the client who announced to the lobby that Dr. Angie was a terrible veterinarian, the YouTube commenter who said they need empathy t...

Tell Us What You Think Nobody puts "anal glands" on their list of things to learn about when they get a pet. Then your dog scoots across the carpet,licks incessently during the night, or your cat leaves a mystery smell on the couch cushion, and suddenly it's the only thing on your mind. In this episode, Dr. Angie and JoJo get into all of it: what anal glands actually are, why chroni...

Tell Us What You Think It's been one full year and 57 episodes of Tails of Truth, and Dr. Angie and JoJo are taking a minute to sit in it. In this episode, they look back at their favorite moments, the episodes that hit hardest, and a few things they've genuinely changed their minds about along the way. From pet insurance skepticism to the Lepto vaccine, from raw food hand washing habits...

Tell Us What You Think We're not here to shame you for Googling your pet's symptoms, or researching with AI, at 2 a.m. We've done it too. This week, Dr. Angie and JoJo get real about AI and pet health advice and what it gets right, where it dangerously misses, and why no algorithm can replace 20 years of hands-on clinical practice. They test two popular AI tools live (ChatGPT and Cl...

Tell Us What You Think We need to talk about anesthesia-free dentistry because it is marketed everywhere and a lot of loving pet parents are spending real money on something that mostly just makes teeth look pretty. In this episode, Dr. Angie and JoJo break down what anesthetic-free (or "awake scaling") actually does, what it misses, and why the gap between those two things matters so mu...

Tell Us What You Think Fear of anesthesia is one of the most common concerns I hear from pet parents  and it makes complete sense. In this episode, JoJo and I have an honest, reassuring conversation about what modern anesthesia actually looks like, what your veterinary team does to keep your pet safe, and why vet medicine has genuinely gotten so much better over the years, making anesthesia safer...

Tell Us What You Think Real cases. Real talk. This week Dr. Angie pulls back the curtain on what actually came through her exam room door and what it's like to be an integrative veterinarian who cares deeply for her patients. A heartworm positive dog arrives from Texas. A cat parent introduces Dr. Angie to microchips that read body temperature at home. Giardia shows up in what feels like ever...

Tell Us What You Think We're recording this one still getting over being sick because this feels important. A rabies vaccine recall affecting dogs, cats, and ferrets has left pet parents across the country with an unexpected problem: a vaccine their pet already received may no longer be legally valid. In this episode, Dr. Angie and JoJo break down exactly what happened with the Boehringer Ing...

Tell Us What You Think Rehoming a pet is one of the most judged decisions a pet parent can make, and this week Dr. Angie and JoJo are naming that out loud. Both have rehomed animals they loved. Both have watched clients stay in unsafe, unsustainable situations because the shame of asking for help felt worse than the situation itself. This episode is an honest conversation about when rehoming is th...

Tell Us What You Think  In this episode of Tails of Truth, Dr. Angie gets honest — really honest — about the things that have been weighing on her lately. Missed callbacks, overflowing inboxes, cases that didn't go the way she hoped, and the quiet emotional toll of caring for animals and people through hard days. This is a rare behind-the-scenes look at what a veterinarian actually carries. ...

Tell Us What You Think We're going there. Pet pharmacies, the topic Dr. Angie and JoJo have feelings about. In this episode of Tails of Truth, Dr. Angie pulls back the curtain on something that happens behind the scenes at your vet clinic every single day: the time, cost, and liability involved every time you fill your pet's prescription at a third-party pharmacy. It's not a lecture...

Tell Us What You Think In this episode of Tails of Truth , we welcome our first guest: Dr. Kenneth Pierce , a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist and founder of VESPECON . Dr. Pierce joins us to talk about a growing challenge in veterinary medicine: access to veterinary specialists. From cardiologists to internists to ophthalmologists, specialty care is increasingly difficult to access, eve...

Tell Us What You Think If your veterinarian has ever told you to “try a novel protein diet” or mentioned a hydrolyzed protein food , and you left wondering what that actually means this episode is for you. In this episode of Tails of Truth , we break down how novel protein diets , limited ingredient diets , and hydrolyzed protein diets (like Royal Canin Ultamino) are used in real life for both dog...

Tell Us What You Think Anxiety in dogs is far more common than most people realize and it’s often undertreated. In fact, some recent studies suggest that up to 75% of dogs exhibit at least one anxious behavior. Yet anxiety is rarely the primary focus during routine veterinary visits. In this episode of Tails of Truth , Dr. Angie and JoJo unpack what canine anxiety really looks like, from pacing, p...

Tell Us What You Think In this short but powerful episode of Tails of Truth , Dr. Angie and JoJo step into a hard conversation — not about politics, but about community and compassion. Across the United States, families are being detained during immigration enforcement operations. While the human impact is immense, there’s another ripple effect that isn’t being talked about enough: the pets left b...

Tell Us What You Think Pet parents have questions and in this episode of Tails of Truth , holistic veterinarian, Dr. Angie and veterinary nurse JoJo answer them unscripted and unfiltered. From concerns about Cushing’s disease in dogs and whether herbal formulas like Four Marvels are enough, to navigating kidney disease in cats , picky eaters, and when to stop forcing prescription diets — this epis...

Tell Us What You Think Veterinary visits, especially emergency vet visits, are stressful, emotional, and expensive — and most pet parents feel like they have no choice but to say yes to everything put in front of them. In this fiery , truth-telling episode of Tails of Truth , Dr. Angie and veterinary nurse, JoJo, pull back the curtain on what really happens in emergency veterinary medicine and how...

Tell Us What You Think In this practical, honest, and judgment-free episode of Tails of Truth , Dr. Angie Krause and veterinary nurse JoJo talk openly about fractious cats — lovingly known as “spicy kitties.” These are the cats who may be sweet at home but become anxious, aggressive, or terrified at the veterinary clinic. They break down the many types of fractious cats , why fear — not “bad behav...