Totally Pawsome Pod Dr. Sip Siperstein and Melissa McCue-McGrath

Dr. Sip explains what to do if your pet has a seizure, why animals can't have many human medications, and how Poison Control helps vets. Melissa gives a doctorate course in CYA and introduces everyone to the runaway camel of Bonner Springs, Kansas.
This week, our thanks go out to…
Sip’s real life!
ASPCA App and Emergency Line
https://www.aspca.org/news/what-expect-when-calling-aspca-animal-poison-control-center
Bonner Springs Police Department
https://www.livescience.com/wildest-animal-escapes-2021
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/camel-causes-chaos-running-away-kansas-nativity-scene-rcna8061 
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Dr. Sip is a practicing veterinarian in and around Oakland/Berkeley, California. More about Dr. Sip and her veterinary work can be found here: DrSipVet.com/

Melissa is a professional dog trainer in Southern Maine (melissamccuemcgrath.com). She can be heard on her other podcast, BewilderBeasts (safe for work and kids, unlike this show!)

Find them on Twitter: @PawsomePod
Email your story ideas, comments and more: TotallyPawsomePod@Gmail.com 

Melissa gets on a soapbox about leashes, and Dr. Sip comes in hard with an animal who disintegrates after having *MULTIPLE* 14-hour sex sessions.  



This week's resources:
Soapboxes by Melissa,
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2110223269
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrates
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/07/07/3262428.htm
 And the googled images of the deceased antechinus:(You've been warned: Caution, deceased animal) 
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2110223269
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Dr. Sip is a practicing veterinarian in and around Oakland/Berkeley, California. More about Dr. Sip and her veterinary work can be found here: DrSipVet.com/

Melissa can be heard on her other podcast, BewilderBeasts (safe for work and kids, unlike this show!) and when she's not training dogs or dog trainers, she can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com

Find them on Twitter: @PawsomePod
Email your story ideas, comments and more: TotallyPawsomePod@Gmail.com 
 
 

This week, Dr. Sip terrifies Melissa six ways to Sunday with spiders and hedgehogs, and Melissa brings up the hardest museum in the land. 

Resources for today's episode:
"Don't rub hedgehogs all over you"
Nature
AVMA
CDC.gov

"You can just take this dong anywhere":
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-tapirs-nsfw/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-final-member-2014
phallus.is/en
https://animalogic.ca/blog/11-of-the-strangest-animal-genitals-on-the-planet
Varmints on Tapir, extended cut….er, Patreon feed (or check out all their free episodes here!) 

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Dr. Sip is a practicing veterinarian in and around Oakland/Berkeley, California. More about Dr. Sip and her veterinary work can be found here: DrSipVet.com/

Melissa can be heard on her other podcast, BewilderBeasts (safe for work and kids, unlike this show!) and when she's not training dogs or dog trainers, she can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com

Find them on Twitter: @PawsomePod
Email your story ideas, comments and more: TotallyPawsomePod@Gmail.com

Season 2 is here with a bang - Pablo Escobar's theme park and zoo backfired spectacularly,  and we have a driving animal who is absolutely better than most Boston drivers. Alright, let's do this!
 


Resources for today:
Invasive Hippos:
 The Truth about Animals by Lucy Cooke (book)
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-colombia-can-get-rid-of-pablo-escobars-hippos-2021-6
https://www.grunge.com/186303/how-pablo-escobars-former-hippos-are-ruining-colombia/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/colombia-cocaine-hippos-rewilding-experiment-news?loggedin=true
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Land-area/Square-miles
 Driving goldfish :
 The authors of “From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals” published in Behavioral Brain Science.( Shachar Givon, Matan Samina, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Ronen Segev)

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Dr. Sip is a practicing veterinarian in and around Oakland/Berkeley, California. More about Dr. Sip and her veterinary work can be found here: DrSipVet.com/

Melissa can be heard on her other podcast, BewilderBeasts (safe for work and kids, unlike this show!) and at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com

Find them on Twitter: @PawsomePod
Email your story ideas, comments and more: TotallyPawsomePod@Gmail.com
 

Dr Sip's outside is coming inside, Melissa has company, so everyone is taking a break. Enjoy this  episode from BewilderBeasts - remastered for your listening pleasure.

This is a remastered version of the second story in episode 20, "Quoth the Raven, Baltimore."  Resources for today's episode can be found here: https://bewilderbeastspod.podcastpage.io/episode/ep-20-quoth-the-raven-baltimore. 

This week, the ladies are remixed,  Dr. Sip talks about veterinary options, including wild hamster tagging; Melissa brings up lady octopuses and has to apologize to all but one Todd.


Resources for today's episode:
Dr. Jonathan Epstein
Dr. Xuan Mai Vo
Dr. Amanda Leef
Dr. Raimon Duran-Struuck
Dr. Yoanna Maitre
The Varmints Podcast
Vox


Dr. Sip is a traveling exotics veterinarian in Oakland, California. More about her, her practice and contact infor can be found here: DrSipVet.com

Melissa McCue-McGrath is a certified professional dog trainer in Southern Maine. Her classes, book, virtual training offerings and more can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com  - and her other show, Bewilderbeasts can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.