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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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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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15 – How do We Give Our Pets the Best Chance at a...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/03/26

How do We Give Our Dogs the Best Chance at a Long LifeMarty and Laura walk through best practices for giving our pets the best chance for a long life.Our hosts share their experiences with losing dogs in old and young ages, while providing detailed recommendations to help our pets live long, productive lives.“So preventive care is going to be probably the most important,” Marty said. “And that means routine blood work. That means routine dental cleanings, that means the right nutrition.“There's some

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14 — Breaking Down the Life Stages of Our Dogs

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/03/19

The whole one year of human life is 7 years of dog life; some of that isn't right. But it kind of gives us a feel for what we think of puppy, teenager, adult, elder. Marty and Laura walk through those life stages and some of the things that we can do to ease or utilize those times that we have with our dogs. Everyone says it's too short, and they're right. So we talk about some ways to look at it differently and to understand it better."Teenagers need to learn boundaries," Marty said. "Teenage dogs,

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13 -- Aquariums Raise Serotonin and Create Beauty

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/03/12

Aquarium authority (and audio engineer extraordinaire) Lance Woodruff joins Laura while Marty is on a globe trotting tour of meetings.Lance walks us through Laura's "box of fish" and everything above and beyond in the colorful and spectacular world of home aquariums.Filtration, salt or fresh water, fish friends (and frienemies!), tank size and decorations, we cover the basics on aquarium 101.The Eclipse filter – everything in one top for the

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12 — Cats 101: Essential Guide to Understanding Your...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/03/05

Marty takes Laura and listeners through the entire pantheon of cat life!“Cats are not small dogs and dogs are not big cats,” Marty says. “So cats are a species unto themselves, and they have their own special wants, needs, desires, techniques, food, everything. It's a little different with the cat.“This is why a spay or neuter in a cat at six or eight months is very appropriate. Now, I don't like to see them spayed or neutered when they're itty-bitty babies. I still think that there's some risk that

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11 — Emergency Yes or No: Life Saving Information

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/02/26

Marty and Laura take a deep dive into what does and does NOT constitute an emergency for your pet."Your dog scratching at his ears, not an emergency. You can wait. Cat can't urinate. That is an emergency," Marty says.With the nationwide difficulty finding and accessing emergency services for our pets, a little bit of knowledge can save you an enormous amount of time, grief and frustration. From bloat to dog fight to bloody stools, we take you through the details of what can and can't be managed at

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10 — Understanding Blocked Cats: Causes, Symptoms,...

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/02/19

Marty takes us to school on understanding blocked cats.“Cats have a very serious medical condition when they cannot urinate. And you can only imagine how A, painful, and B, dangerous, that is, for cats, and it's almost always male cats. I can tell you, I can count on one hand the number of female cats I've seen obstructed, but male cats, pretty commonly. It accounts for about 3 % of all veterinary hospital admissions, so it is a common disorder.“If you have a cat that's urinating inappropriately,

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09 — Unintended Consequences of Early Spay/Neuter

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/02/12

Marty and Laura tackle some tough topics around when and whether to spay or neuter our pets.Research has shown that early spay/neuter in dogs causes an increased incidence of several cancers as well as cruciate ligament tears and increased odds of both problematic and nuisance behaviors.“They don't routinely spay and neuter dogs in the European countries and they don't have a pet overpopulation problem. They don't have a mixed breed overpopulation problem. So when I've traveled in Europe and you go

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08 — Ticked Off: The Parasites Your Pets Pick Up!

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/02/05

Marty and Laura get waaaaaay into the creepy, the crawly, and the one-celled organisms… All of your pets’ potential parasites in one itchy episode.Learn about a “tick quest,” “tick nests” that could be under your bed, the potential role of ticks as vectors for diseases up to and including cancer, and more parasitology than you even knew was out there.Catch up on the life cycle of fleas, the scourge of heartworm and mosquitoes, even “Kissing Bugs.” Then venture into the “bowels” of veterinary

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07 — The Ultimate Guide to Vaccines for Pets!

The Marty & Laura Show ·

2025/01/29

Marty and Laura work through what vaccines to give, when, and to which pets. We have science-grounded, fact-based, experience-tested knowledge for everyone.Marty’s observations:I think there's a lot of misunderstandings about vaccines, and I hope we can help clarify some of that information. I'm going to start off by saying that I don't want to come off sounding like I'm pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine.When Jean Dodds and Ron Schultz started talking about vaccinations being given more frequently than

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