For Episode 14, we dive right into poop. You read that right. Poop. As the famous book says: Everybody poops. And for everyone in the animal healthcare field, that’s a good thing! Your pet’s poop tells us a lot about what is going on with them. It can be a very easily seen (and smelled!) sign that can tip you off that something may be up with your furry family member. So, in this episode of Alicia Pet Care Center’s Pet Talk Podcast, the owner and chief of staff of the hospital, Dr. Matthew Wheat...
Aug 14, 2019•47 min•Ep. 14
For Episode 13, we want to talk about liver problems in dogs and cats, and give you an overview of the potential causes of liver disease, some of the solutions, and some of the thought processes that go into figuring out how to determine which cases need a big workup, what are the potential pathways that we can go down, and try to chip away at this very confusing, but super common topic to affect the health of dogs and cats. So as a very broad overview: a lot of you all are going to have a conve...
Jun 20, 2019•Ep. 13
We are extremely proud to have a staff full of people who want to further themselves personally and professionally. At the time of writing this, we have 6 Registered Veterinary Technicians (aka RVT's) in our hospital. We also have 7 of our other staff members currently in school. Here at Alicia Pet Care Center, we have always considered ourselves a highly educational facility; not only for pet owners but for anyone we hire, as well. In this episode, we sit down with each of our current RVT's to ...
Oct 19, 2018•Ep. 12
This episode is our conversation with a couple of the key members of the Just Food For Dogs company. If you're one of our clients and you've been into our hospital since December of 2017, you've seen the Just Food For Dogs pantry that was built into our lobby. We analyzed Alicia Pet Care Center's standard of care for our patients and the dedication of Just Food For Dogs to improving the lives of your pet. It was a fairly simple conclusion to align our hospital with this progressive pet food comp...
Aug 10, 2018•39 min•Ep. 11
This episode is the conclusion to the spay & neuter conversation with Dr. Wheaton. If you listened to the previous episode, you heard: a multitude of fascinating and eye-opening statistics regarding the pet overpopulation and some of the prevalent issues that are commonly seen when pets are not spayed or neutered. No punches were pulled in the first episode...and that holds true in this equally important second episode. Here's a link to that 1st episode in iTunes for you: Spaying & Neute...
Jan 09, 2018•Ep. 10
In this episode, Dr. Wheaton sits down to talk about all things spay and neuter. The information included in this conversation was so robust, we had to break it into two full episodes. This first half of the conversation breaks down the four classes we deal with here at Alicia Pet Care Center: male dogs, female dogs, male cats and female cats. There are some eye-opening (and maybe even jaw-dropping) statistics that get broken down. Some of the possible and fairly commonly seen results of avoidin...
Dec 06, 2017•Ep. 9
For this episode, we brought in a special guest that has worked for years with many of our clients' pets: Vladae Roytapel aka The Russian Dog Wizard. Vladae originally started his career in dog training in the former Soviet Union; he was a Red Army and Soviet Union Government awarded trainer before relocating to Michigan here in the USA. Since that time, the decoration of Vladae as a world-renowned professional dog trainer has continued. He won multiple awards during his time in Michigan, includ...
Mar 06, 2017•Ep. 8
In this shorter episode, Dr. Ashley Dewey sits in front of the mic to fill us in on her usage of acupuncture in the hospital, what led Dr. Dewey to the world of acupuncture in the first place and how that all catapulted her into learning the technique. She details those stories and the process of acupuncture in general. We then discuss some of the amazing results we have seen with some of our own patients here at Alicia Pet Care Center. You can find us on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Perisco...
Dec 21, 2016
For this episode, we sat down with integral members of The Pet Rescue Center : Development Director Jan Henry, Operations Director Kati Winters, Executive Director and Co-Founder Blythe Wheaton as well as a brief introduction by Medical Director, Board President and Co-Founder Dr. Matthew Wheaton. Kati with Pygmy; The Wheatons with Sally Sparkle and Fezzik Hodor; Jan with Monty. A great deal of information is thoroughly gone over with these guests, helping us learn more, not only about The Pet R...
Oct 24, 2016
This is a shorter episode focused on a discussion with Alicia Pet Care Center's Dr. Brömme, talking about her recent trip to Guatemala. She was involved with Veterinarians International to provide services to a large number of local pets for surgeries and vaccines and general assistance for the pets of Todos Santos. You can find us on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Periscope with our username @APCCvet. We are on Facebook as Alicia Pet Care Center. You can send any questions and topics you'd li...
May 26, 2016•17 min
Dr. Maria Brömme and Dr. Matthew Wheaton are sitting down with us for this episode that is geared at cats and has a ton of great information for you cat owners. One of the things that is at the absolute base of all things about domestic cats that gets ignored a lot is that, truly, cats are wild animals. Part of that is the fact that cats are actually strict carnivores. The conversation begins with Dr. Wheaton talking a lot about the dietary needs of a cat. The food part of a diet for a cat relat...
May 26, 2016•38 min
In this episode, Dr. Wheaton And Dr. Forman go over a couple of topics that our clients wanted us to cover and it led into quite the informative conversation. The first topic was regarding bathing your dog: how much is too much, can it be overdone, etc. Dr. Wheaton expanded this topic a bit, bringing potential reasons for having an "itchy dog" into the conversation. Dr. Forman gave some insight into shampoos as well. We talked about bathing your cat and how well or poorly they do with self-groom...
May 26, 2016•32 min
This episode of the podcast features Dr. Ashley Dewey and Dr. Neal Forman. They sit down with three topics brought to us by clients of ours (and some other people via social media). We tackled what can happen when your pet is stung by a bee. A major source of this question actually came from the photo above, of this puppy who got stung and gave a very obvious reaction of the puffy face you see here. What if this was your dog, and what can or should you do at home? Speaking of what you can do at ...
May 24, 2016•27 min
This episode is the official launching pad for the long-awaited, much-talked about podcast by Alicia Pet Care Center. You can return to this episode at any time if you want to get to know who the doctors are at the hospital, or if you just need to refamiliarize yourself with the voices you're hearing in any of the other episodes. Dr. Maria Brömme, Dr. Ashley Dewey, Dr. Neal Forman, Dr. Sarah Northrop and Dr. Matthew Wheaton all took a moment to sit down with the podcast host, hospital office man...
May 24, 2016•50 min
