Off Leash with Dr. Pete

We are so happy to have Andrea Libretti back on with us to talk about the exciting things that MYOS is working on including a new way to give your dog a better life and longevity. Humans and animals alike struggle as they age in part due to muscle loss and MYOS has been hard at work to help give options to pet owners and humans alike with a revolutionary new supplement. Listen in to learn more about the future for our pets and ours...

This week on Off Leash, Molly is joined by Josh Lambo who was a professional soccer player, the 9th most accurate NFL kicker of all time, and now animal performance enthusiast. Josh is doing some exciting work with his time, working on performance supplements for dogs and working on another venture involving horses. We talk with Josh about his crazy journey in professional sports and how it led him to his newfound passion in animal...

This week, Molly sits down with Dr. Pete to look back on what had changed and what has stayed constant during Dr. Pete’s career which spans 50 years of veterinary work! Would you believe the prices of work back then? Or even how things were done and what advancements have been made in the veterinary field. This is a fun look back on all Dr. Pete’s work and how far animal care has come. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to su...

This week Dr. Pete is with Molly at VMX in Orlando answering some more of the questions we received from our podcast listeners. These questions pertain to lots of dog owners who may be asking themselves the same questions or in the very least as useful knowledge for dog care going forward. We discuss overweight dogs and how to help your dog find a healthier version of themselves, as well as probiotics and their benefits as well as ...

This week we’re sitting down with Dr. Pete to talk about something that affects almost every dog owner: Ticks and Heartworm. This may not become a large part of your dogs life if you follow your veterinarian’s advice about treating for these two things. If you don’t, your dog could be at risk of some major issues should they run into developments from these two things. Do you know how ticks become carriers of Lyme? Have you conside...

This week we sit down at the VMX in Orlando with Dr. Pete to answer some listener questions that you guys have emailed us! We go through a bunch of different topics including diet, paw licking and yeasty paws, as well as some complex situations involving some of our listeners dogs and how Dr. Pete would best take care of them going forward. If you have a question for us you can email it to us through our website and we will do our ...

This week Molly is joined by Lindsey Berg of Loc Dogs Training to go through some of the challenges our dogs face that we don’t normally consider: stresses of the modern world. We don’t really take the time to see how it can be difficult for our dogs to adapt to the modern lifestyle that we’re used to now. If you think back to what dog ownership looked like even 50 or 60 years ago, dogs spent a lot more time outside or in environme...

Been doing any late night scrolling on the internet? We have! And we’ve come across countless videos of people giving advice about what is or isn’t going on with your dogs. Everything from food toppers to holistic herbal teas. So we decided it would be good to save a few of these and get Dr. Pete to sit down and listen in to debunk the fakes and provide support for the folks out there giving real solid advice. Please listen along t...

We are back this week with incredible news about a groundbreaking study that we’ve been grateful to be a part of working on for a few years. We’ve been working alongside some incredible people to help shape the future for dogs and dog owners when it comes to the food we give our best friends. A peer reviewed study has been published in the AVMA concerning copper storage in dogs. This was a project headed by Sharon Center and our ow...

Happy Holidays to all of our listeners! This week we wanted to discuss a topic that impacts almost every pet and pet owner and that is pain that your animals may be dealing with at some point in their lives. If you’ve had a pet go through difficult struggles with pain it can be terrible to watch them struggle. In this times we wanted to give them something to make it feel better and often times people think they can simply give hum...

This week we sat down with Dr. Pete to talk about a topic that lots of veterinarians have had to deal with throughout their career: veterinary burnout. Just like doctors and nurses, having burnout as a veterinarian is extremely common with how fast paced a day can be as a veterinarian or vet technician at a clinic. Your day can take a turn quickly depending on what types of cases you have in and out each hour. Lots of people experi...

This week we wanted to touch on a topic that’s becoming increasingly popular in the US for people’s pets: Nutraceuticals! Dr. Pete joins Molly to discuss there these non traditional methods of treatment may actually be a huge benefit to your dogs and cats and their overall wellbeing. Have you tried any at home management that has been super successful? We’d love to hear from you! Send us a message on the Voyager Instagram and let u...

This week we sit down with Dr. Pete to relive some of the wildest stories he can remember. from being seduced on a visit to see a horse to dogs eating trays full of pot brownies, this episode is full of hilarious and wild moments from a local Michigan veterinary clinic. If you can imagine, these stories seem to never end and probably won’t for as long as humans are caring for animals as a part of their daily lives. You won’t want t...

This week we’re in studio with some awesome topics surrounding dog breeds. After putting out a clip on social channels talking about which dog breeds are the worst to own, we got a lot of comments challenging our takes and also asking questions about other breeds. We thought it would be a great chance to go through a few of those things with Dr. Pete. We talk about golden retrievers, chihuahuas, labradoodles and some other very com...

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with Linda Milanesi, CEO of Assistance Dogs of the West, to learn more about assistance dogs and the role they play in everyday life for some people. Assistance dogs have been a part of life for a long time in society, and here in the United States, we’re utilizing these incredible dogs in more ways every day. It is likely that someone you know or have seen around uses a service dog on ...

This week Dr. Pete and Molly are in studio talking about a difficult topic, what is actually killing our dogs? We review some of the things that people consider to be common issues for dogs like Parvo and Heartworm and we reveal what we are seeing more commonly than these things by a long shot. We discuss how dogs are being diagnosed and treated and what the best practices are in terms of care for your dogs. Thanks so much for list...

This week on the podcast we sit down to discuss a topic that many people have experienced with their dogs and other pets: Separation Anxiety. Have you had a dog that just freaks out when you leave? Maybe they get into things that they shouldn’t, maybe they bark the entire time you’re gone or who knows what else. If you’ve dealt with this, you know it can be a huge hurdle. Today we discuss some different ways to try combatting the i...

This week we’re back with one of our favorite guests, Lindsey Berg. Lindsey is a dog trainer extraordinaire and she’s here to help answer some of our listener questions on dog training and how to handle all types of different situations with your dog. We talk about how to control accidents in the house, when to be firm and keep the rules you have or haven’t set for your dog and lots of other very common dog owner questions. Thanks ...

This week we sit down with Susan Chinchillo and Lindsey Berg to talk about an extremely important topic that many dog owners never really consider: what happens when dogs don’t play nice with each other or humans? Susan shares a chilling story about an experience she had with a rescue dog named Fred. When dogs fight do you know how to intervene? This can be an extremely scary and disturbing scenario. Listen in to this podcast to le...