The Truth About Pet Anti-vaxxers | Dr. Sylvalyn Hammond
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 159 minutes
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00:00 Intro
2:21 It’s Like Pediatrics
06:45 Pet Anti-vaxxers
16:00 Big Pharma For Dogs
24:05 Bear’s Lyme Disease
28:40 Worst Pet Habits
32:35 Ozempic For Cats
42:55 Benefits of Pets
46:30 Raw Milk
52:30 What To Actually Feed Your Pets
1:17:00 Evidence Based Medicine / Vet School
1:30:00 Private Equity
1:45:40 Animal Trust / Rabies
1:55:10 Exotic Animal Ownership
2:01:20 Roxy’s Amputation
2:22:08 Breed Bans
2:29:55 Training Cats
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Babe, it's Gem. |
| 0:02.0 | Just voice-noting you because I'm so busy. |
| 0:05.0 | I can't even type right now. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm working on that big presentation for my new launch. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm making it on Canva Mobile like you suggested. |
| 0:13.1 | And it's making everything iconic. |
| 0:16.6 | So it's a bit noisy, babe's mards is going off. |
| 0:20.3 | Anyways, I'm going to ping the presentation to you now so you can see what I mean. Yeah, madame. Got to go, hon. Thanks for introducing me to Canva. Love you. You're my first veterinarian on the show. Yeah? Your first veterinarian. Veterinarian. What's it like being on social media as one who has to take care of other species outside |
| 0:40.9 | of humans? |
| 0:41.9 | I'm almost at a disadvantage, especially on social media, because of my credentials. |
| 0:45.6 | Do you think there's certain breeds of dogs that should be banned? |
| 0:48.2 | This is so controversial. |
| 0:49.6 | I have opinions. |
| 0:51.6 | How does one know how much to feed their animals? |
| 0:53.9 | The back of the bag will kind of have a |
| 0:55.1 | guideline. And those are accurate and valuable? Well, no, right? Since we've been doing vaccines, |
| 1:00.8 | now more pets are getting cancer. Yes, more pets are getting cancer now because not only are they |
| 1:04.7 | living longer, we're also able to diagnose it. If your cat or dog is overweight, is it always the |
| 1:10.4 | human's fault? |
| 1:12.4 | Imagine if you got a mosquito bite and six months later there was a worm in your heart. I'll never forget I had one dog. She was a year old. Her human loved her. He brought her in because she was ADR, right? Ain't doing right. He was crying next to me as I'm |
| 1:27.0 | helping this dog pass and relieving her suffering and he just kept saying like, this is all my fault, this is all my fault, this is all my fault. And it was, I told him, you know, after the fact, and I said, you know, don't beat yourself up too badly. In her honor, you will never ever forget to give another dog heart and preventative. and you will tell your friends. I'm accused of being a vaccine chill all the time. |
| 1:47.5 | But did you know the same? You will never ever forget to give another dog heart preventative, and you will tell your friends. I'm accused of being a vaccine chill all the time. |
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