Petgevity: Pet Health and Longevity Podcast

Taking your pet to the vets can be a really stressful event for both animal and human. As a vet, I’ve worked with a huge variety of unruly animals. Tarantulas, iguanas and a whole host of sharp beaked troublemakers. If it’s got a mouth and likes to bite, chances are I’ve treated it. However, in all my years in practice, there’s one animal, one creature that strikes more fear into me than any other...

Back in 2016, I spent 33 hours in the back of a van crossing mainland Europe with eight dogs. This wasn’t my idea of a fun road trip. The truth is, I’d hired a company to transport my dog so he could join me on holiday in the Czech Republic. But he’s a nervous traveller, and I was worried about how he would cope on the road. So instead of flying ahead and meeting him there, I climbed into the van...

Imagine it’s a hot summer's day. The sky is a blanket of blue, the scent of sun cream floats through the air, and the queue for the ice cream van stretches long into the distance. It’s the perfect day for a swim. So you grab a towel, walk to the lido and dive into the water. However, when you surface, you realise something’s not quite right. Your fellow swimmers seem hairier than normal, and one s...

ADHD. It is everywhere right now. Across social media, podcasts and workplaces, people are questioning themselves in ways they never really did before. Traits once dismissed as lazy, oversensitivity, or lack of discipline are now being revisited through the lens of neurodivergence. Somewhere in the middle of that, I also found out I was affected by it, too. For me, it was a watershed moment, and I...

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