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VET Talk Radio Podcasts

By: Brian Pickering & Kaye Browne
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  • Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #20 with Kaye Browne

    Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #20 with Kaye Browne
    Jun 16 2025
    *** RADIO 2SM PET SEGMENT #20 WITH KAYE BROWNE ***This week:Finally – we can rest in peace WITH our much-loved pets! New laws in NSW mean it’s now legal to share our grave with our pet’s ashes. And what puts a smile on lots of dogs’ faces? Rolling in poo! But why do dogs do it? And how to – hopefully – stop it!PLUS:Cats – so many secrets – and the biggest one – how they hide getting older. How to help ease their pains and enjoy senior status.Also this week!KB’s quick tip to help families train dogs NOT to over-react to knocks at the door. 00'00" - Welcome Ron Wilson and Kaye Browne00'09" - RIP With Our Pets02'09" - Why Do Dogs Roll In Poo & How To Stop Them!04'42" - Senior Cats - What Are They Hiding Health-Wise?06'39" - KB'S 'Quick-Tips' - Stopping Dogs Barking At The Door!FULL TRANSCRIPT:RON: Time now for our weekly pet segment with Kaye Browne from VETtalk On-Hold Kaye, good morning.KAYE: Good morning, Ronnie.RON: Look, I know people who will actually want to do this. Finally, we can actually rest in peace with our much loved pets, New laws in NSW mean it is now legal to put your pets’ ashes in with your own. This is quite amazing for a lot of people.KAYE: It is indeed. It has been a long time coming. There's been a lot of people actively pushing for this because let's face it, pets are now so much a part of our lives and the thought that people can now go to where their pet and their loved family member are either buried together or their ashes are mixed together and it's really, just part of the grieving process that people are allowed to do that so this has only just happened. I've got a call, a contact from Dr Sam Kovac, who's one of the many vets that I'm lucky enough to know from Southern Cross Veterinary clinic. And he said, he's known for years that people have been sneaking ashes into coffins just because they want their much loved pet to actually rest in peace with their much loved mother or father, human, mother or father. But now it means it's legal and that makes it much easier for cemeteries and crematoria because there are a lot of people that that really want to have this happen. And Sam actually mentioned that it's a particularly important thing for the homeless, who often don't have much, you know, certainty in their lives, and their pet is their only solid point of contact. Their reason for being, really, and he has a charity called Project Hope, which provides free medical treatments and checks and vaccinations. And that's for people who are homeless and also for victims of domestic violence. So that's a pretty important charity. But they are going to be absolutely delighted as well, because it means that people don't have to fear being put in the ground and never having their pet join them ever, or their ashes of the pet or their remains so it can take a little bit of working out, but it's happening.RON: Yeah, such an interesting development. Now I have a question for you. Why do dogs roll in poo their own? And there's another dog anybody. Is it kind of like Cologne for dogs or something? How, how do you, how do you stop them doing that?KAYE: Au de poo fume!RON: Au de poo fume. I love it.KAYE: Yes, you know, experts have long pondered this particular thing, and I've actually pondered it myself on occasion when there's been a pong. As I looked up a bit of information as well. You know a dogs idea of a good smells different to ours. They like the smell of poo. They also like the smell of dead things. I have dogs that unfortunately rolled in a dead fish.Ohh no. Yeah, that was nice coming home in the car. But yeah, they like dead things, they think the experts think it's covering up the dogs own smell or that they're bringing home proof of where they've been. A bit like a selfie or a postcard to tell the pack hey, guess what I smelt today? So it's pretty social media really, but, it is a bit tricky to stop them now if they're on-lead that's a bit easier, but if they're off-lead oh oh not good so you will get some hint that they're about to roll in too. So I guess like a lot of things start early and train your dog to leave it, that's a good thing to train. And then if they don't touch or sniff or roll and the thing that they're being told to leave as they obey you they get a treat. So practise on something that's, you know, not too nasty to start off with and practise it and you know pretty soon dogs are smart. They go hey, if I leave whatever that interesting thing is I actually get a treat and the other quick thing to remember is, in your own backyard, pick up the dogs poo every day.RON: Exactly!KAYE: If you spot a dead bird or a dead rodent, you know, pick that up as well, and after a bath, try and dry your pet off well so that they're not tempted to roll in anything something to dry themselves off. It's tempting for them to do that. We've all seen dogs wriggle on their back. Does your Bailey do that?. RON: Yeah. Yes. I've gotta say, ...
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  • Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #19 with Kaye Browne

    Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #19 with Kaye Browne
    Jun 10 2025
    This week: (Full Transcript below!)Sydney Councils want tougher fines for unrestrained dogs in public places and owners not picking up their dogs'poo.Posties under attack - approx. 44 dog attacks a day! Aus-Post will arm all their people with a protective citronella spray by the end of July '25PLUS:The avoidable pet health issues costing pet parents big bucks and how to avoid them. Hint... your Vet can help more than you think.Finally, the RSPCA Million Paws walk is no more - so how much money did the final ‘walk’ manage to raise? 00'00" - Welcome Ron Wilson and Kaye Browne00'10" – Councils demand tougher fines uncontrolled dogs & dumped waste. 01'51" - Posties new defence against dog attacks03'26" - Gastro and Skin issues costing pet owners the most 04'48" - Pet Dental Month benefits extended from June to August05'59" – Big results for RSPCA Million Paws final Walk FULL TRANSCRIPT:RON: Time to talk animals now on the 2SM and breakfast show with Kaye Browne from VETtalk On-Hold. Kaye good morning!.KAYE:Good morning to you.RON:Well, you know what dog lovers we are, but I'm very pleased to see this I gotta say, tougher fines for pet owners who don't do do the right thing when they're pet's do the Doo Doo. That's what several big Sydney councils are planning, and those councils are Randwick and Waverley and they're also looking at bigger fines for letting dogs off leash in prohibited areas and for uncontrolled or attacking dogs. I am totally on board with this, I gotta say.KAYE:I am certainly on board with it as well, especially when you consider that just across the border in Queensland they've got similar fines of, you know, around $300.00 for not picking up waste, but, their fines for having an uncontrolled dog in an public place are much higher. In fact, they started $1,613 go up to $112,000.The possibility of three years jail. So that would be for a dangerous dog or one that attacks a child or a human being. And I think that sounds like a reasonable thing to do because right now in Sydney it's the same fee, it's $330 if a dog attacks another dog or a child.RON:Well, it makes no sense. And of course we have our friend Peter Clay, who was recently attacked by two dogs and you know, the ongoing effects for that and he's an adult. Obviously, we're not even talking children here, but the ongoing effects for that are quite significant.KAYE:Absolutely. And you know the trauma of that lives with people for a long time. And let's face it, there are a lot of occasions now where for some reason people aren't picking up and they're letting their dogs get out and not caring that their roaming, and I'm saying that in particular because Australia Post has got a huge problem with its posties being attacked.The latest data suggests there's something like 44 dog attacks a day, something like over the last six months, 1,150 posties being attacked. Now the thing is that they're not actually happening as you'd expect when they're going to the front door to get someone to sign for a parcel, these are actually roaming dogs on the street. 57% of these attacks are on the streets, so Australia posts has said enough is enough by the end of July, we're going to arm all our posties with a citronella spray so that they've got some means of pushing the dog back from attacking them. How do you feel about that?RON:Well, I know the citronella keeps the mosquitoes away. I never thought of it using it against the dogs.KAYE:Well, there are different kinds of citronella, and you know that we do need to be a little bit cautious because dogs can't process ethanol and there's ethanol and some of these sprays for keeping them mozzies away.But I think the other thing to think about is that, it does give the postie some means of actually thinking about what they're doing and hopefully aiming the spray so that it's not going in the dog's eyes because that can cause them to have runny eyes and to, you know, scratch their eyes and get infected. And they could get a bit of a gastro and we'll talk more about gastroenteritis and how common that is a little bit later.But you know it is something that we have to think about and people, you know, you get tracking on your Australia post items these days, so if you know you're getting something, you have to sign for, make sure the dog is inside or out the back!RON:Well, let's talk gastro and some other things that might affect dogs. We've just got information out from the insurance companies about the past years claims that were made, what seems to be the most common problems that owners take their dogs and cats to the vet with each year.KAYE:Well, this is really very interesting. It's remarkably similar in dogs and cats. In dogs, it's skin infections and allergies is number 1 and the average cost of that is something like $650. It can get right up to $21,000. And in cats, the number one problem is gastroenteritis type problems. And the average cost of treating that is something like $900 ...
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    7 mins
  • Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #18 with Kaye Browne

    Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #18 with Kaye Browne
    Jun 2 2025
    This week:Tails on our pets are so cute aren't they?... but why do they have them and what do they mean?And now that winter is upon us, how can we deal with rodents 'safely' - eg; no poisons!?Also this week... Got a black or dark coloured dog? could you find them if they got off-lead at night?And 'paw-lickers'... Why do they do it and is it a sign something wrong?Plus:Why do dogs howl at sirens! (Check-out Kaye's version!) 00'00" - Welcome Ron Wilson00'06" - Wagging Tails... What Do They Mean?01'40" - Dealing With Rodents In Winter03'35" - Walking Dark Dogs At Night!04'24" - Why Do Pets Lick Their Paws?06'02" - Why Do Dogs Howl At Sirens? Image: Dog Tails Wagging... (c) https://olddoghaven.org/a-tail-of-two-dogs/FULL TRANSCRIPT:RON: Time now for our weekly pet segment with Kaye Browne from VETtalk On-Hold... Kaye good morning! KAYE: good morning to you!RON: Look in last week's segment we said that we were going to talk about dogs tails and well I suppose cats tails as well really, but I'd never thought about it much before I just assumed the dog wags his tail when it's in a good mood and that's it, but there's more to it than that?KAYE: Yeah there is quite a bit more to it because tails are just one aspect of body language that dogs use and cats by the way and frankly you know when we meet people when we're out walking or shopping or whatever we don't necessarily like everyone that we meet so we might show it in the way that we're not doing very positive body language so with tails we don't have a tail but dogs can communicate a lot through tail wagging but they can also be very confusing. You see putting your tail straight up and wagging can mean "Hi I like you and come and play." Or it can mean "I'm just feeling a bit nervous" if they're standing very still. So you can't really look at the tail wag in isolation from everything else but the scientists have now determined really that they're very sensitive our canine friends and our feline friends and tail wagging to the right definitely is a better thing, this indicates friendliness and curiosity. Tail wag to the left not so happy and if they've got their tail tucked underneath them they're very very nervous.RON: Well I'll keep an eye out... now and Is it the dog's right or my right and it's going to be confusing you know that's the problem with all of this you've got to figure it out. Now last week when we spoke we talked about looking after our pets in this cooler weather but we may have some visitors we don't expect in the furry animal line. You can have rats and mice coming into your house how do we deal with that in relation to the pets that we already have?KAYE: Yes well don't let them chase them for one thing a girlfriend of mine had spotted a little mouse dash underneath her dishwasher recently and so trying to do the right thing got some of those special catch and release boxes that you can get from your hardware store thinking "Oh she'll do the right thing and go and release it in the wild." Well it didn't work because pretty soon she saw that the mouse that came in was uh a mother and uh there were 11 more little mice trying to take up residence for the winter so she did try using actual mouse traps in you know the old fashioned kind that we see in the cartoons which unfortunately are more deadly and you know they do knock them out pretty quickly and then you can pop them in a bag in the freezer and put them in the rubbish do not use baits please. My father's dog got into some poison in the garage one time and had to be rushed to the vet for emergency treatment because even though they say that a lot of the ingredients they use in baits these days are safe if a pet should accidentally ingest them they're not and I'd rather not take the opportunity because it's a pretty nasty sort of a thing. The baits I don't know if you've ever seen what happens to mice and rats when they take some of these baits, they start to bleed because the chemicals stop them from clotting blood properly and that's indeed what can happen to our dogs and cats if they eat the bait or indeed if they eat the dead rodent that ate the bait. RON: Yeah it all sounds very nasty doesn't it and another thing that uh we should be careful about in winter and again I'd never thought about this uh it gets dark so early in the evening that if you're out walking the dog after work if you had a black dog with you for instance that's going to be a problem! KAYE: Yes, when I had my four-pack, unfortunately they are there at the Rainbow Bridge as they call it one of them was a little black poodle and in the dark if I didn't put an LED collar on him I wouldn't have been able to spot him. I wouldn't have let him off the lead mind you but it's actually safer if you get some of these illuminating collars and leads and also put a high viz vest on so that if you're out and about, other people can see you as well and no one's going to get a fright or be accidentally knocked ...
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