Ep 670: Bridging the Gap Between Vets and Community Cat Caregivers with Dr. Kevin Lynch, DVM, Veterinarian, Author, and Founder of The Moriches Hospital for Animals
About this episode
Dr. Kevin Lynch discusses the divide between indoor-only advocates and community cat caregivers, emphasizing the importance of relationship-building in veterinary care.
"That's my own formula — passion and compassion tempered by dedication and humor." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund , OcuTrap , and Drop Traps: Beginning and Advanced Certification Workshop . After more than five decades behind the exam table, Dr. Kevin Lynch has treated thousands of pets, mentored generations of veterinary staff, and built one of Long Island's longest-running animal hospitals. His new memoir, Off the Leash: Tales From a Lifetime of Healing Pets and Wonder, traces that journey from a 13-year-old kid who talked his way into a part-time job at a local animal hospital to a veterinarian whose guiding philosophy is simple: treating the animal is only half the work, and tending to the person on the other end of the leash is the rest. Dr. Lynch and Stacy dig into one of the thorniest debates in animal welfare: the divide between "indoor-only" advocates and the realities of outdoor and community cat caregiving. Drawing on his own farm-cat memories from working summers on a dairy farm before vet school, he makes the case for listening over judging, and for meeting cat caregivers where they are instead of where a textbook says they should be. From there…
People in this episode
Host: Stacy
Guest: Dr. Kevin Lynch
Sponsors
Maddie's Fund, OcuTrap, Drop Traps: Beginning and Advanced Certification Workshop
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Off the Leash: Tales From a Lifetime of Healing Pets and Wonder
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