Sep 23, 2026 · 24 min · 7 segments
On this episode of Off Leash with Dr. Pete, Molly and Dr. Pete take a closer look at a new concern surrounding raw pet food: avian influenza, or H5N1. As bird flu continues to affect poultry, dairy…
Pete VanvrankenHostMolly VanBrinkenHostI was looking into some dog food trends and I found something interesting today.
if you feed your dog a raw food, or if you've ever considered it, you should definitely tune into this one.
Because over the last year, the bird flu has gone from being a poultry industry problem to something veterinarians and pet companies can no longer ignore.
I think I know a little bit about this and that really, as a general rule, when you have influenza and if you have a swine flu, usually it just affects swine, but in our case, it affects people.
So you have these influenzas that will actually jump from species to species.
So when somebody like you or I get it, it's referred to as a zoonotic disease.
In other words, it's something that animals get that people would get, okay? So a zoonotic disease, maybe other zoonotic disease might be giardia, where you get diarrhea.
I was looking into some dog food trends and I found something interesting today.
if you feed your dog a raw food, or if you've ever considered it, you should definitely tune into this one.
Because over the last year, the bird flu has gone from being a poultry industry problem to something veterinarians and pet companies can no longer ignore.
I think I know a little bit about this and that really, as a general rule, when you have influenza and if you have a swine flu, usually it just affects swine, but in our case, it affects people.
So you have these influenzas that will actually jump from species to species.
So when somebody like you or I get it, it's referred to as a zoonotic disease.
In other words, it's something that animals get that people would get, okay? So a zoonotic disease, maybe other zoonotic disease might be giardia, where you get diarrhea.
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