It's always fascinating to watch the way that a fad popular among humans gradually spreads

to animals.

For example, many of us choose to go with organic diets, and so we start to demand organic

dog food for our pets.

In effect, putting the fad belief ahead of the science of dog nutrition.

So where is this more dramatic than in veterinary care, with customer demand having virtually

transformed much of the industry into one giant alternative medicine woo woo factory.

Alternative veterinary medicine is coming right up on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

In the old days, when your pet got sick, you took it to the vet.

Maybe you got some big horse pills to force down its mouth.

Maybe you got one of those big plastic cones around its head.

But today it's a little different.

You're more likely than ever to be offered a type of treatment that, so far as you know,

is pre-scientific witch doctor stuff.

And what's really confusing is that it's being offered to you by someone who appears

to be a legitimate doctor of veterinary medicine with bored certification in all kinds of credentials

on their wall.

What's going on here?

Today, we're going to take a scary and surprising look at the biggest shift in veterinary medicine

in a century.

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