The Future of At-Home Vet Tests with Jen Hagness | The Long Leash #75

You’ve come home from work to discover evidence your dog has diarrhea. Ugh. It continues, and you call the vet. No appointments for two weeks, unless you want to pay for an emergency visit … but this doesn’t seem like a huge emergency.
Most veterinary visits are for the same few problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get basic health tests – like fresh poop samples you scrape off your floor – done from home, and get the results back in time for your scheduled veterinary visit?
Today we are speaking with CEO Jen Hagness of MySimplePetLab, the first from home general wellness company. MySimplePetLab offers at-home and from-clinic testing kits for dogs and cats. The test kits are designed by veterinarians, and MySimplePetLab provides the tests, shipping to their lab for testing, and the results delivered to both you and your vet. 
Jen shares with us the benefits to pet parents and veterinarians of these kits, and what the future may hold for at home testing.
Episode Links
MySimplePetLab
This episode is sponsored in part by EverPup and BarkBox.
Chapters
00:00 Start
02:56 MySimplePetLab
07:33 Traditional Pet Parents vs. Modern Pet Parents
11:33 Gold Standard Testing
12:59 Vets Included
15:29 2023 Teaser
20:02 Telemedicine
30:29 Being a CEO
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