Purr Podcast

Dr. Mikel Delgado, our guest, studies the health and behavior of neonatal kittens and feline orphans and currently is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. We talk about suckling neonates, feeding behaviors, and taking care of these little kittens. Do you know what Dr. Susan had to do with the start of Dr. Mikel's research? You can find more info here http://catsandsquirrels.com/aboutme/

In our second episode with Dr. Ashley Bourgouis, we focus on common cat derm problems including flea bite hypersensitivity, atopic allergies, parasites, pyoderma, and lots more. Even Dr. Susan got excited about derm after this podcast! Thanks, Dr. Ashley!

The amazing Dr. Ashley Bourgeois is our guest this and next week. Dr. Ashley is a board-certified dermatologist with lots of years of clinical practice under her belt. Next to that, she is a strong force on social media with her excellent 'Dermvet' podcast and other activities. We will discuss lots of cool and itchy topics and chat about why Dr. Susan is not a derm expert. Cats have lots of cool derm issues but may not show them the same way other species do!

Happy 2021! Yay we made it and are happy to present the first episodes of the new year, where Dr. Susan and Dr. Jolle explain what it takes to write a veterinary book. We both are in the midst of editing multiple books and it always looks more fun at the beginning than at the end. It truly is a labor of love. We also discuss the new feline Covid vaccine.

Happy NY, happy 2021. We are going to repeat the most downloaded podcast of our young podcast history. This is podcast number 95 and we are so excited to reintroduce Dr. Sarah Boston, who will talk with us about lots of good things and one bad one, feline injection-site sarcomas. Sarah is a great surgeon and we had an awesome chat.

Happy holidays, dear #purrpodcast listeners, This week we will repeat the most downloaded podcast for 2020 and that is the one with Dr. Serge Chaloub. We discuss chronic kidney disease in cats, a topic we will never get enough of. Serge dives into the specific treatments available and gives us lots of good info. This podcast was posted for the first time in March of 2020. Enjoy and be safe!

We are so excited to talk with Dr. Paulo Steagall about the feline grimace scale, one of the most exciting pieces of feline research this year. Recognizing pain in cats is tough but the feline grimace scale will help you in assessing acute pain in cats and Paulo is THE expert. He and his team developed and validated the feline grimace scale and it is now ready to be used at https://www.felinegrimacescale.com/.

Professor Paulo Steagall joins us today in the first podcast about feline pain. Paulo is an expert in feline anesthesia and pain management and talks with us about how important it is to use local analgesia and what you can use if you do not have opioids readily available. Paulo is a proud Canadian since he just became an official Canadian citizen. Paulo is a great guy and he is doing some amazing feline research.

Part two of hot cat news!. Dr. Susan talks about new methods for measuring glucose in cats. The permafrost in Yukon revealed a Sabertooth cat, we talk about famous world cats and about melanocytic tumors in felines. In other words, lots of cool topics of the latest cat news discussed in a lively manner.

This is one of our favorite podcasts, where Dr. Susan and Dr. Jolle roam the internet for hot cat news. We talk about famous presidential and cabinet cats, cats in Egypt and Peru, and a cat app that recognizes cat talk. A fun episode that updates you about the latest cat news.

Dr. Serge Chaloub is back for his second episode. We are still talking about academics in this covid epidemic and how faculty and students are coping. How to educate has changed completely and also school activities. At the end of the podcast, Serge gives the latest updates on feline chronic kidney disease.

Renal expert and educator Dr. Serge Chaloub came back to the podcast to discuss with us what feline student education is all about. Serge works at the University of Calgary in Canada and speaks about veterinary education before, during, and after Covid. Covid has forced the system to develop better education for students that is partially off-site and partially on site. All in a safe environment. Serge is a great guy and now officially one of the few purrpodcast repeaters!

Dr. Leslie is back for part 2 and it is going to be a hell of a ride! We start off with Cinnamon the famous cat where the cat genome was based on and her little secret. Then we talk genetics (of course), ketogenic diets, cloning cats, and tomb cats. Best of all Leslie shares her to-do list and the content may surprise you (or not when you know her a bit better). What a great episode.

Dr. Leslie Lyons from the University of Missouri joins us on our 86th podcast and we of course talk about genes! Leslie is an amazing geneticist that has focused her career on cat genes and what effect genetics can have on personalized cat medicine. We talk about her 99 lives project and the important link between her work and human disease. Did you know that quite a lot of 2 legged animals have polycystic kidney disease too?

The second episode of the purrpodcast with Dr. Panos Xenoulis will deal with the pancreas again. We discuss if pancreatic biopsies are ok and dive into all the therapy options for acute and chronic pancreatitis. Did you know that corticosteroids may not be bad for cats with pancreatitis? Listen to the latest news of this interesting organ.