A Walk on the Wild Side: A Veterinary Podcast

Happy World Wildlife Day💚 Remember to love and respect the animals we share this earth with

Happy Valentine’s Day from your Walk on the Wild Side Family❤️ We hope you have a wonderful day and that you know you are loved 🥰

Happy New Year from the “Walk on the Wild Side” family😊 We hope you accomplish all your goals and dreams this year! And as always, we hope you continue to love and support the animals we share this planet with.
We took a little step back from the podcast last year to manage a few personal things, but we are excited and ready to get back into it and bring new content to all of our wonderful listeners! Thank you for all the support and let’s make this year wild and wonderful💚

Happy Pride Month from The Walk on the Wild Side podcast family🌈

Please continue to show your love and support for the LGBTQ+ community! We should always celebrate and accept people for being their beautiful self, within the veterinary field and in our daily lives. No one deserves to feel like they are less for being different than the “norm” and no one’s rights or opportunities should be comprised just by being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

For those of you in the LGBTQ+ community, we love you and are always here for you! For those of you who are an ally to the LGBTQ+ community, we love you and thank you!

Much love❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Host,
Kyle Kansman, DVM, CertAqV

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• EPISODE EIGHT IS NOW LIVE•
On this episode of A Walk on the Wild Side, join host Dr. Kyle Kansman, DVM, CertAqV as he interviews the renowned board-certified veterinarian in zoological medicine, Dr. Doug Mader, MS, DVM, DABVP (Canine/Feline), DABVP (Reptile/Amphibian), ECZM (Herpetology). Drs. Kyle & Doug discuss nutritional diseases in reptiles, focusing on nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism (one of the metabolic bone diseases) and hypovitaminosis A.

The episode is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or any of your favorite podcast services.

As always, thank you all for your amazing love and support! If you like what you hear, please share the episode to all other veterinary professionals and animal lovers and give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting platform. And of course, feel free to directly message us or email us through our website with any questions or comments!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
To get into the spooky spirit, we wanted to share a fact about the one and only Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)!

Yep you guessed it folks, the vampire bat does indeed feed on blood, but instead of the haunting image of Dracula sucking blood, the vampire bat actually makes a small cut on the host’s skin and laps up the flowing blood with their tongue without even hurting the blood donor! The vampire bat prevents the blood of the host from clotting using an potent anticoagulant (anti-clotting substance) called “draculin”!

Hope you all have a spooktacular and fangtastic Halloween!

Happy National Veterinary Technician Week!!! Your hard work and dedication to the field of veterinary medicine is so vital and we all appreciate you all SOOOO much!!

Thank you for continuing to be the incredible superstars that you are and keeping the field of veterinary medicine thriving! We couldn’t do it without all of you💚
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• EPISODE SEVEN IS NOW LIVE•
On this episode of A Walk on the Wild Side, join host Dr. Kyle Kansman, DVM, CertAqV as he talks with wildlife veterinarian at Dr. Bree Talbot, DVM as they talk about helping wildlife in natural disasters, with a special focus on the bushfires of Australia! Listen in and learn about Australia’s largest mobile wildlife hospital, the role of wildlife rehabilitation and veterinary medicine during natural disasters, and how bushfires have impacted both the wildlife and people working with them.

The episode is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or any of your favorite podcast services.

As always, thank you all for your amazing love and support! If you like what you hear, please share the episode to all other veterinary professionals and animal lovers and give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting platform. And of course, feel free to directly message us or email us through our website with any questions or comments!

NEW EPISODE: On this segment of “Speak Up for a Species” here on A Walk on the Wild Side, we are highlighting the critically endangered Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis). Listen in as host Dr. Kyle Kansman, DVM, current veterinary intern at Colorado State University ( ) pursuing zoo medicine, shares facts about the Amur Leopard and talks about the threats against their population and what’s being done to save this critically endangered species. At the end of the episode, Dr. Kans brings back "Fact or Fiction", a witty animal version of true or false, for you to test your leopard knowledge.

The episode is available on our website (link in bio) and on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or any of your favorite podcast services!

As always, thank you all for your amazing love and support! If you like what you hear, please share the episode to all other veterinary professionals and animal lovers and give us a killer rating on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting platform. And of course, feel free to directly message me or email me through our website with any questions or comments!

On this episode of A Walk on the Wild Side, join host Kyle Kansman ( Michigan State 2022 DVM candidate) as he interviews two other incredible veterinary students, Floyd Williams Jr. (Purdue University 2022 DVM candidate) and Hira Basit (University of Florida 2022 DVM candidate and co-founder of Association of Asian Veterinary Medical Professionals) on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the veterinary profession.  Listen in as we discuss issues surrounding race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other facets of DEI including how we can help grow DEI in the profession and some of our personal experiences and stories about how DEI has shaped us as people and future veterinarians.  Celebrating DEI in all aspects of life is incredibly important and we hope that this episode brings discussion and meaningful change to the profession. 

Links for the Association of Asian Veterinary Medical Professionals:
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Facebook: Facebook.com/AsiansInVetMed 
Website: AAVMP.org 
Email: [email protected] 

Additional Resources:

On this month’s segment of “Speak Up for a Species” here on A Walk on the Wild Side, we are highlighting the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Listen in as host Kyle Kansman ( ), a 4th-year veterinary student at Michigan State University ( ), talks about the Florida Manatee, the threats against their population, and why 2021 has been the deadliest year on record. At the end of the episode, Kyle brings back "Fact or Fiction", a true or false game for you to test your knowledge and see if you qualify as a manatee maniac. 

The episode is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or any of your favorite podcast services.

As always, thank you all for your amazing love and support! If you like what you hear, please share the episode to all other veterinary professionals and animal lovers and give us a rating on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting platform. And of course, feel free to directly message us or email us through our website with any questions or comments!