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The Marty & Laura Show

Laura Reeves & Dr. Marty Greer

Dr. Marty Greer and Laura Reeves deliver unique, fun, fact based conversations about pet health. Greer is the 2023 Westminster Kennel Club Veterinarian of the Year and author of “Your Pandemic Puppy.” Reeves is the host of the wildly popular, award-winning Pure Dog Talk podcast. From pro tips on selecting your new dog to what your dog’s runny eyes or your cat’s runny nose mean and what you should do about it, Marty and Laura will meet you where you are (in the car, on the treadmill, walking the

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35 – Confessions: ALLLLLL the Ways Our Dogs Have...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/08/13

Confessions: ALLLLLL the Ways Our Dogs Have Embarrassed UsMarty and Laura share their most embarrassing stories with their dogs. From obedience exercises gone wrong to inappropriate public ejaculation, and many more incredibly awkward humiliations.“Dogs don't process things the same way we do,” Laura said. “If it feels good, it's good and so whatever it is that makes them feel good, which might be eating all of your entire ham roast that you had for dinner. Dogs live in a perpetual pleasure zone

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34 – Bloat: Know the Early Warning Signs

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/08/06

Bloat: Know the Early Warning SignsMarty and Laura give you tips and tools to save your dog’s life in the case of bloat. Minutes count in this life-threatening condition, so knowing the early warning signs is critical.Bloat, also known as gastric dilation and volvulus, is a condition that knows no boundaries. It occurs in large breed dogs primarily, but it can happen in smaller dogs as well. Gas becomes trapped in the stomach, causing it to “flip over,” cutting off blood supply to vital organs, all

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33 — Examining the Power of the Human Animal Bond

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/07/30

Examining the Power of the Human Animal BondMarty and Laura examine the powerful human animal bond and how we can help our pets be healthier while they help us be healthier.The power of this ancient connection is documented at the Human Animal Bond Research Institute."The value that pets bring to our lives," Laura said, "is they impact whether we go out and exercise with them because we need them to lose weight. Whether it is the companionship, whether it is the social activity where we actually go

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32 – Pro Tips for Doggy Dieting

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/07/23

Pro Tips for Doggy DietingMarty and Laura take on the “weighty” conversation around doggy dieting. Research proves conclusively that dogs kept at a healthy weight live two years longer. How pet owners reduce or manage weight for their pets can be challenging and often requires some personal introspection as well. Our best pro tips for doggy dieting:·Move more, eat less … There’s no such thing as doggy Ozempic·Replace 50% of kibble with vegetables·Measure the food, don’t just guess·Feed two meals,

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31 — How to Manage the High Cost of Vet Care

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/07/16

Marty and Laura tackle the high cost of vet care, everything from WHY the cost is so high to pro tips on ways you can help keep costs manageable.Laura said, "I ran across (an article) in a magazine called Money Wise, and it says that half of America's 87,000,000 pet owners have decided against vet treatment. And it it continues that for many Americans, the cost of caring for their pets has become unbearable. A Gallup poll found 52% of US pet owners say that they've had to put off veterinary care

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30 — Foxtails and Algae and Snakes and Alligators, Oh...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/07/09

Foxtails and Algae and Snakes and Alligators, Oh My!Summer vacation with dog as co-pilot, as Marty and Laura discussed last month, is well under way. Today they bring important information to help keep your pet safe in the late summer at various locations around the country. Whether it's foxtails, blue green algae, poisonous snakes or alligators, your pet can encounter a variety of environmental challenges.Skunks and porcupines also get rolled into this wide-ranging conversation about what to avoid

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29 -- A Day in the Life: Answers to Your WTF...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/07/02

A Day in the Life: Answers to Your WTF Questions at the VetMarty and I talk a lot. Like we talk pretty much, maybe not daily, but we talk every week. And I interact with people on a daily basis who work in veterinary clinics. I think it's really hard, sometimes, for us as clients to appreciate what's going on in the veterinary clinic. 'The receptionist just snarked at me. I've been sitting here for 45 minutes, like, what the F?'So I thought it would be really great if Marty would talk to us about

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28 — Bombproofing Your Pet for the Big Booms

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/06/25

Bombproofing Your Pet for the Big BoomsMarty and Laura tackle the big booms of summer, fireworks and thunderstorms, and how we can bombproof our pets ahead of time.LR: You made a comment to me last week when we were together that I thought was so great. We were talking about our phobias, your fear of heights. My claustrophobia. And you're like, 'we don't know why we have these phobias. Dogs don't know why they have their phobias either.' And I just thought that was such a genius comment that I'd

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27 — Blastomycosis and Other Fungal Infections

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/06/18

Blastomycosis and Other Fungal InfectionsMarty and Laura discuss the dangers of blastomycosis and other fungal infections for our pets as well as their humans."Blasto tends to be the upper Midwest," Marty said. "It's frequently found in areas where wood chipping has taken place, so places that trees have been cut down or chipped or garden centers and you know, things along those lines. "There are other parts of the country that have other kinds of fungal infections. So it's not like if you don't

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26 -- Osteoarthritis Diagnosis and Treatment

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/06/11

Osteoarthritis Diagnosis and TreatmentMarty and Laura tackle the topic of osteoarthritis in our pets, diagnosis, treatment and the differences between cats and dogs with this disease."The only time we'll see a pet cry in pain is if they have either serious trauma or they slipped a disc in their neck and those dogs vocalize," Marty said. "But they won't vocalize because they've torn a cruciate. They won't vocalize because they have hip dysplasia or back problem or elbow dysplasia or 1 of 1000 other

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25 – Oral Hygiene from Teeth to Gums to Beards

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/06/04

Oral Hygiene from Teeth to Gums to BeardsMarty and Laura discuss oral hygiene including teeth, gums and beards. Keeping your pet's teeth clean means brushing them. There are no magic cures. Oral health impacts the pet's overall physical health directly, Marty said. She recommends visiting the Veterinary Oral Health Council's website to learn about approved and accepted products that can help reduce the severity of periodontal disease in our pets."It's not just about how they smell," Marty said,

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24 – Geriatric Cats and Why They Lose Weight

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/05/28

Geriatric Cats and Why They Lose WeightMarty and Laura tackle the topic of skinny old cats, why they lose weight and how to prevent these geriatric diseases.Cats are NOT, as Laura theorized, “fluffy house plants.”“Lots of people know when they have a kitten that they need veterinary care,” Marty said. “They need vaccinations, they need deworming, they to be spayed or neutered, all the stuff. And then a lot of cats never see their veterinarian until they're 14, 15, 16 years old in some

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23 — Summer Vacation with Dog as Co-Pilot

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/05/21

Summer Vacation with Dog as Co-PilotMarty and Laura drop useful tips and share hilarious stories about summer vacation with dogs.Top tips from the Pros: RV, hotel, campground or visiting friends and family, and on the road along the way, pick up after your dog! Abandoned dog droppings can spread "germs and worms," are smelly and disrespectful to other travelers. Marty's Pro Tip Keep your used grocery bags in an empty kleenex box for easy access and a "reuse, recycle" mindset.Xpens are your friend

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22 — Spring Tune Up for Your Dog

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/05/14

Spring Tune Up for Your DogMarty and Laura get you and your buddy off the couch and ready for the spring weather."The most important thing is to not overdo it because the tendency is it's finally spring, it's finally nice out. I'm going to go garden all day, I'm going to go on a long hike, I'm going to cut the grass, I'm going to clean the garage, I'm going to do all this stuff that turns out to not really be conducive to not being physically conditioned for it. And it could be you, it could be your

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21 — Encephalitis, Meningitis and More

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/05/07

Encephalitis, Meningitis and MoreMarty and Laura tackle a really tough topic today, talking about encephalitis and meningitis and other assorted brain and spinal cord inflammation.“These are scary because the dogs get very sick and it's a very difficult diagnosis to make,” Marty said. “It usually requires some advanced imaging, some advanced testing. It's not an easy diagnosis to nail down and it's not an easy treatment to develop.This category of illness is complicated due to the variety of causes,

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20 – Do Stuff with Your Dog, Safely!

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/04/30

Do Stuff with Your Dog, Safely!Marty and Laura are talking puppercise today with a great run down of the fun stuff to do with your dog and how to do it safely. They even throw in a little philosophy. Like, what is “hiking?” Are we climbing cliffs or strolling on a volksmarch. Hosts discuss.Back on track, our intrepid hosts cover communicating with our dogs. How to hear what they’re trying to tell us, whether it’s that their feet are hot or they’re tired and need a rest period.A discussion of dog

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19 – Managing Grief Over Pet Passing

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/04/23

Managing Grief Over Pet PassingMarty and Laura are joined by Lindsay Stanton, grief coach and author to discuss managing grief after losing a pet."At the end of the day, grief and trauma run down very parallel paths," Stanton noted. "And depending on the type of grief that you're experiencing, it can be extremely traumatic. And depending on the way the person or pet passed, it can be extremely traumatic.""If you're really a dog person or really a cat person, you understand the gravity of that loss,"

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18 – Types, Causes and Treatment of Seizures

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/04/16

Types, Causes and Treatment of SeizuresMarty and Laura take on the tough topic of seizures in our pets. They break down the types of seizures, what may cause them and treatment options based on the cause.Sparked by a listener request to cover the topic when a client dog had a hypoglycemic seizure in a groom shop, this episode is for everyone who owns a dog. All dogs and cats can experience a seizure whether from low blood sugar, ingestion of toxin, various diseases and what is known as “idiopathic

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17 — Pros and Cons of Dog Parks and Doggy Day Care

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/04/09

Pros and Cons of Dog Parks and Doggy Day CareMarty and Laura debate dog parks and doggy day care, weighing the risk versus the reward of each.Dog parks and doggy daycare are convenient solutions to busy schedules. But they do have downsides. We're here to help walk you through some of the considerations."Some (doggy daycares) are run really well," Marty noted, "so I don't wanna say that they're all negatively associated. But there are some that have really done well and some that are really not done

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16 — Separation Anxiety Solutions for You AND Your Dog

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/04/02

Home AloneMarty and Laura tackle separation anxiety, a tough topic for folks trying to manage returning to office life while keeping their pooch entertained. A lot of “pandemic dogs” that have never had 30 seconds of being by themselves, find a new way of life more challenging.“So there are some things that you can do to help prepare them for being left alone,” Marty said, “whether it's to go to work or something more significant. And some of them are pharmaceutical and some are non-pharmaceutical

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