Blunt veterinary advice for real pet problems.
Dr. Roger Welton brings a working veterinarian's urgency to pet care, moving quickly from listener emails into plain-spoken medical guidance. The show covers cancer, kidney failure, anxiety, parvo, ticks, summer hazards, and the owner habits that shape clinical outcomes.
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The Space Coast Pet Podcast is built around practical veterinary judgment, not cozy pet chat. Dr. Roger Welton speaks as a practicing veterinarian from the Florida Space Coast, with the speed and certainty of someone who has seen the same preventable problems again and again. The show often begins with a listener email. Then it widens. A question about cancer becomes a discussion of genetics, breeder diligence, aging, pesticides, waterways, and environmental risk. A cat-health episode can move from feline origins to kidney failure and feeding concerns. A dog-anxiety episode uses Nacho, Dr. Roger Welton's anxious Labrador Retriever, as a way into a broader pattern he says has grown across his career. The advice is direct. Owners are reminded that they speak for the patient, administer treatments, manage daily risk, and shape the relationship with the veterinary clinic. That owner responsibility is a recurring theme. So is impatience with misinformation. In the parvo episode, vaccine hesitancy is treated as a public-health problem for dogs, with outbreak details and a forceful defense of established protocols. The tick episode has the same urgency. Cold climates are not treated as protection anymore, and tick-borne disease is framed as a rising danger that calls for prevention before exposure. Seasonal timing matters too. Summer preparation, Super Bowl food hazards, daylight savings, Florida rain, allergies, and local coastal conditions all become entry points into pet care. The show is mostly a solo monologue, but listener names and emails give it a call-in-advice feel. It can be warm. It can also be preachy, in a useful way, especially when the subject is neglect, avoidable risk, or conspiratorial thinking. Dogs appear often, and the show acknowledges that canine topics dominate many listener emails. Cats still get serious attention, especially around kidney failure, feeding choices, and the way feline owners ask different kinds of questions. The result is a fast, blunt, owner-focused veterinary show for people who want medical context and a push toward action.
Made for: For dog and cat owners who want practical veterinary context before symptoms, seasons, misinformation, or daily habits turn into bigger problems. It especially suits listeners who like direct advice with clinical backing and a personal, conversational pace.
What sets it apart: The show pairs working-veterinarian specificity with a strong owner-responsibility ethic. It does not just name risks; it repeatedly connects them to concrete choices around vaccines, breeders, feeding, parasite prevention, clinic communication, and environmental exposure.
Dr. Roger Welton is an experienced practicing veterinarian, successful author, blogger and media personality. Airing every Thursday at 8 AM EST, Dr. Roger discusses the pertinent pet issues of the day and addresses listener emails.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dr. Roger Welton makes veterinary choices easier to follow by connecting pet owners' questions with practical risks, options, and clinical reasoning.
The Space Coast Pet Podcast turns questions from pet owners into plainspoken veterinary briefings. Dr. Roger Welton typically moves from a listener's case to causes, risks, prevention, and treatment, drawing on situations he encounters as a practicing veterinarian.
Garfield becomes a diabetes cautionary tale, and your cat's free feeder gets a second look.
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Veterinarian Roger Welton considers breeding, environmental exposure and age in a discussion of pet cancer.
Are more pets getting cancer, or does it just feel that way? A listener's email prompts veterinarian Roger Welton to consider breeding, environmental exposure and age.
Welton gives cats their turn, moving from domestication history to feeding before and after kidney failure.
Listeners have noticed that Dr. Roger Welton's show has leaned toward dogs, so this episode gives cats their turn. Welton starts with the African wildcat and cats' long association with people.
Parvo in three counties prompts a veterinarian's urgent case for informed dog vaccination.
Parvo in three counties has veterinarian Dr. Roger Welton asking why some owners are leaving their dogs unvaccinated. He describes dog park closures and advice to avoid public places, kennels and daycare for at least the next month.
A Florida vet points to a tick in snow and nearby Lyme cases to challenge assumptions about tick season.
Dr. Roger Welton returns from a conference lecture with ticks on his mind. The image he describes is hard to shake: a tick in snow. He also says a colleague diagnosed two Lyme disease cases in the county just north of his Florida practice.
Dr. Roger Welton uses a cat's diabetic crisis to discuss weight, free feeding and activity.
A listener's cat has recovered from a diabetic crisis, and Dr. Roger Welton uses its story to question the idea of a "fat and happy" cat. He connects excess weight with diabetes, explains why free feeding can be a problem for cats that do not regulate how much they eat, and…
Dr. Roger Welton weighs calming aids for dogs frightened by storms and fireworks, with particular attention to acepromazine's timing.
A listener's lab is frightened by thunderstorms and fireworks, and veterinarian Dr. Roger Welton talks through the calming aids he has tried with dogs in his care. He favors a Thundershirt, sometimes paired with Adaptil.
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