The Natural Vets Podcast

Reactive behaviours between dogs can occur for many reasons and can often be one of the biggest behaviour challenges pet families face. It can greatly impact your enjoyment of the big wide world with your dog.  This podcast with Dr Renee and Dog Trainer Hannah will provide some more insights into this problem and how to solve it. Credit for the music used in our podcasts ‘Feel the Love’ goes…

Dental disease in pets is one of the most common problems we see in vet practice. The current stats are that 100% of small breed dogs have significant dental disease by the age of 2 years! How gobsmacking is that – literally! In this podcast, learn what dental disease is, how it damages your pet’s health, and what we do about it.   Credit for the music used in our…

Chronic skin disease is one of the most frustrating disorders to treat in companion pets, and one of the most common.  These poor pets suffer on a daily basis! Conventional treatment options are limited – usually to the chronic use of medications like antibiotics and steroids that can have serious down-sides when used long-term. Natural therapies can be very effective, but the resolution process can be complicated and lengthy. In…

Sibling rivalry & interdog aggression is one of the more common behaviour challenges that occurs with dogs.  Dogs may develop reactive behaviours, both in the home and when out and about, for a variety of reasons. And often their humans are inadvertantly reinforcing these behaviours and making them worse! In this podcast, you will learn the psychology behind reactive behaviours,  and how we often unknowingly contribute to them.  Hannah outlines…

In this podcast Dr Renee and our dog behaviour wizard Hannah discuss common behaviour challenges many dog families face, and how to extinguish them.  Hannah points out that the overarching problem many dogs suffer from is stress or anxiety, and that this feeds other problem behaviours – such as escaping, hyperactivity, and reactive aggression. She outlines strategies to AVOID encouraging inappropriate behaviours, and instead know how to reward and reinforce…

In this podcast we introduce our Vet Nurse and dog behaviour wizard, Miss Hannah. We discuss why domestic dogs operate differently to wild wolves and what this means for dog owners.  We also examine the common behaviour challenges Hannah has witnessed and simple strategies you can implement to deal with them! Hannah has extensive experience working with and advocating for dogs.  She has worked in remote Australia observing feral dog communities,…

In this podcast Dr Renee sits down with Nurse Bec.  Bec is passionate about healthy puppy development and runs Puppy Kindy at The Natural Vets.  One of the upsides of this COVID-19 pandemic is a spike in pet ownership – more people are staying home and have decided they need the company of a fur baby!  We discuss some of the things we cover in Puppy Kindy, including: Human expectations…

One of our clients contacted us recently asking how concerned they should be about heartworm.  They had heard a report that heartworm was on the rise in Queensland. Heartworm is a parasite that is spread by nasty blood-sucking mosquitoes.  So it’s not exactly avoidable (unless your dog lives in a bubble). Infection with heartworm is potentially fatal because it causes heart failure in dogs. Treatment involves a hospital stay, great…

One of the most common questions I get asked as a Holistic Vet are: What exactly do I do? What are the differences to conventional vet practice? Am I completely anti-drugs? Some people even think that we do surgeries without anaesthetic!  Seriously how would that even be possible… voodoo perhaps? This podcast should help answer these questions and clear up any myths.  Tenielle and I dive deep into what holistic…

Paralysis tick season is upon us again, and is looking to be one of the worst.  The local emergency centre reports treating the most number of tick cases in one night on record, and unfortunately a few of our patients have also been affected by tick bites. When the east coast of Australia is our habitat, naturally as a concerned pet owner we worry about tick paralysis.  But many of…