Our pets get allergies too! But if your pet is scratching, does that necessarily mean they are allergic to something? And if so, what is it? Is it environmental or is it a food allergy? Boarded Veterinary Dermatologist Dr. Ashley Bourgeois joins Steve to give us the 101 on allergies and how to treat them.

Our pets got very used to us being home all the time. If you are suddenly back at work and out and about more your dog could be suffering. Malena DeMartini-Price joins us to talk about her book: "Separation Anxiety in Dogs: Next Generation Treatment Protocols and Practices."

Steve has last minute Halloween safety tips and helps listeners by phone and email.

We’re ready for the scariest time of year! Maybe it’s not that scary, but it can be for our pets! Dr. Heather Loenser joins Steve to share tips on keeping our pets safe and healthy during Halloween.

Our world has changed in the last two years and pet photographer Mindy Dutka has seen the affects on our pets first hand. She says she has seen a big difference in families with their pets and she shares that in her latest book, "Dogs I Meet."

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We’re celebrating National Veterinary Technician Week! Paige Allen, President of the Board for the North American Veterinary Community and a registered veterinary technician herself talks to us about the importance of the role that vet techs play in the care of your furry family member.

It’s never an easy choice, but we need to do our best to decide when our pets quality of life has deteriorated to the point of saying goodbye. Dr. Mary Gardner, co-founder of Lap of Love, explains why making this decision too soon can often be better than making the decision too late.

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Bleh Bleh Bleh! It’s Steve’s favorite time of the year. Halloween!! While we get ready to have spooky fun, our pets may be facing all sorts of additional stresses. Steve is joined by Veterinary Behaviorist Dr. Chris Pachel to find out how we can keep our pets happy and safe during goblin season.

Veterinarian Dr. Melissa Shapiro has the most wonderful pet. He’s social media famous and now even has a book. She joins us to chat about "Piglet: The Unexpected Story of a Deaf, Blind, Pink Puppy and His Family."

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We’re celebrating our cats this week when we speak to Jackie Jaakola, the Executive Director of the Every Cat Health Foundation as we get ready to celebrate "Cures for Cats" day. Formerly the WINN Feline Foundation, Every Cat is the world’s only non-profit that’s sole mission is to fund cat health research.

We continue our discussion with Dr. Jennifer Lopez of Antech Diagnostics about Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBD) in our dogs and new ways that our veterinarians can diagnose this sooner so our pets can get relief sooner as well.

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We’ve got good news to share in the battle to eliminate puppy mills! Illinois has become the fifth state to ban the sales of cats and dogs in pet stores. Marc Ayers, the Director of Illinois for the Humane Society of the United States talks about what this means for pets in Illinois as well as across the country.

IBD is the easy term to remember for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. It’s no fun for your pets and causes plenty of problems for you too. New breakthroughs in technology means that our veterinarian can diagnose this problem earlier than ever. Dr. Jennifer Lopez of Antech Diagnostics talks about the signs of IBD and the new test that can help us treat our pets sooner.

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Humane training methods are incredibly important not only for raising dogs with the right temperament, but also to create that incredible human-animal bond with your pet. Dr. Steve Edwards of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) joins Steve to talk about proper training methods.

If you’ve been to the veterinarian and been surprised by the bill, you need to hear this interview. Compared to what the costs are for human medicine, the treatment we receive for our pets is a bargain! Dr. Dana Varble of the North American Veterinary Community talks to us about all that goes into veterinary medicine.

Steve’s got tips for pet-friendly workplaces and helps listeners by phone and email.

This week we reflect on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and speak to one of the first responders who was there with his search and rescue dog. Chris Selfridge and his Golden retriever Riley were on site searching and hoping. He joins us to tell their story.

Kids are headed back to school, parents are back to work, pets are not happy! Veterinary Behaviorist Dr. Chris Pachel joins us to talk about what we can do to keep our pets from being too stressed out as life takes on it’s “new normal.”

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Everyone is talking about how our dogs are reacting to kids being back in school or the adults heading back to work, but what about our cats? Cats have separation anxiety too! Dr. Amy Pike is with us to talk about the signs that our cats are stressed and what we should do about it.

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It’s back to school time - maybe even back to work time for some of us. So how will our pets respond to us being out of the house and back to work? Dr. Ruth Ann Lobos of Merrick Pet Care talks to us about ways we can keep our pets happy as routines change.

There are so many intricacies to the ways we feed our cats. Just leaving food out in a bowl all day may not be the right idea. Dr. Liz Bales joins us to talk about better ways to feed our cats to enrich their lives and help them maintain a healthy weight.

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