Integrative Veterinarian specializing in both traditional & alternative care Dr. Marty Goldstein answers your difficult to solve questions about pet health and behavior. In his years in practice, he worked with nearly a quarter million pets!!! He is the creator of Nature's Blend / Author, The Nature of Animal Healing — The Definitive Holistic Medicine Guide to Caring for Your Dog and Cat / most recently, The Spirit of Animal Healing and movie The Dog Doc.

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Today on our show, it’s Midday on Pets! Dr. Lisa Gerity joins us once again with answers to all your concerns about our beloved critters. If you have questions about caring for your cat or dog or any other pet, give us a call at 410.662.8780, or email us at midday@wypr.org. Dr. Gerity serves as medical director and part-time veterinarian at the Greater Annapolis Veterinary Hospital. She joins us on Zoom from Ellicott City….Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at

Today it's Midday on Pets! We begin with a Public Service Announcement. Do not send your pets through the X-ray machine at the airport! Last weekend, a cat was mistakenly sent through the X-ray unit along with carry-on luggage in Norfolk, Virginia. And last month, a four-foot-long alligator was found in a lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. When it comes to exotic pets: Buyer beware. These animals and reptiles require a very different level of care if you want them hangin’ in your house. Pets are

It's time for another weekly visit with our peripatetic theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins Tom today with reviews of not one but two theater-season openers here in Baltimore.The first is the new production at Baltimore's Center Stage of Tennessee Williams' sultry American classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This searing drama about multi-generational family ties and unsustainable deceptions unfolds over the course of a sweltering summer night, in the mansion house of a sprawling Mississippi

Tom's guest for the hour today is Jay Heinrichs, an author, lecturer, and consultant in the art (and science) of rhetoric. In a new book, he points out that while the word “debate” comes from the same latin word for “battle,” an argument is not a fight. In a fight, you try to win. In an argument, you try to win over.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

In this short we take a look at the widely shared article claiming that Cats and Lions are the basically the same thing, and therefore Your Cat Wants To Kill You.

Nerdist Comics Instructor Jon McNamee gets chill with us and raps about lab-grown rat arms, newly discovered cat taste buds, and a new human body part that connects the immune system directly to the brain.