The Pet People Panel

Have a question about your pet? The Pet People Panel has the answer. Founded in 2017, Rover’s Pet People Panel is a carefully selected group of third-party pet experts who share our passion for pets. Each member is committed to improving the quality of life for dogs and cats through education and awareness.

Rover has partnered with these specialists across several geographies and from a variety of fields related to pet care to provide pet parents with answers to their everyday care questions. Our panelists provide expert guidance and advice across a range of topics including training, health and wellness, pet safety, product recommendations, and more. 

Previously known as the Dog People Panel, our lineup of expert partners is continuously evolving to better serve the needs of both dog and cat parents. To learn more about Rover’s Pet People Panelists, check out their profiles below.

Nicole is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA), American Kennel Club CGC evaluator and APDT trainer. Using positive reinforcement methods Nicole has trained hundreds of animals from basic behavior and puppy manners, to trick training, therapy work, and service dog training. Nicole believes with love and positive reinforcement we can train any dog.

With over 15 years of animal training experience, Nicole works with everything from bears to tigers to horses to cats and dogs. Her dog, Maggie, was adopted from a city shelter and performs in films and commercials, visits hospitals, puts on shows, does demonstrations, and knows over 100 commands from skateboarding to handstands. Nicole and Maggie have been seen on such shows as The Today Show, ABC, NBC, Nightline, and more.

Nicole is also the author of “Working Like A Dog,” which provides a window into the world of working animals. She loves to travel, see new places, ride naughty ponies, and try to change the world with Maggie at her feet.

Adem Fehmi is a certified Canine Behaviourist and Trainer. His passion is to help people to understand their dogs and to help dogs to understand their humans! With his intuitive ability to read dogs, Adem’s modern approach and way of explanation helps to bridge the communication gap between owner and dog. Adem works throughout the UK and is the owner of a busy dog behaviour and training centre, one of the largest in the country.

He has appeared on both TV and radio and has contributed his professional opinion and expertise to various national newspapers and online media sources. In March 2020, Adem was the official Behaviourist on Channel 4 for the world-renowned Crufts dog show. Other commitments include attending live events such as DogFest and BBC CountryFile Live, where Adem holds live demonstrations on stage and educates the audience on how to understand their four legged best friends.

He offers both 1-2-1 training and group training sessions, dependent on the needs of the case in hand. Adem’s aim is to help as many people as possible to enjoy their dogs and, consequently, as many dogs to enjoy their humans.

Dr. Rebecca Greenstein, B.Sc., D.V.M., completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Western Ontario before earning her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Ontario Veterinary College. Upon graduation, she completed advanced training with consecutive internships at the renowned Veterinary Emergency Clinic and Referral Centre in downtown Toronto, Canada. While training to be a full-time surgeon, Dr. Rebecca found her calling as an ER doctor. After spending almost a decade caring for thousands of sick and injured pets as Chief Emergency Veterinarian, she left ER behind to take the reins as Chief Veterinarian and practice owner at Kleinburg Veterinary Hospital in 2018. Under her leadership, Kleinburg Veterinary Hospital has won awards and earned a reputation for inspired veterinary care with a focus on wellness, and kindness.

In addition to caring for her four-legged patients, Dr. Rebecca regularly appears on national TV, radio, and in magazines as a guest vet expert. You may have seen her on TV as the resident Veterinary Medical Expert on CTV’s The Social and Your Morning. She has been featured in articles for Glamour, PetMD, Business Insider, HowStuffWorks, Weight Watchers, Yahoo, and Narcity, to name a few. Dr. Rebecca joined Rover.com’s Dog People Panel as their Veterinary Medical Advisor with a shared vision of making the lives of fur babies and pet parents happier and healthier.

Philip Tedeschi is the Director Emeritus and founder of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection. Dr. Tedeschi is also a clinical professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and an affiliated faculty with the University of Denver’s Animal Law Program.

He teaches in the Human-Animal-Environmental Interaction Certificate for Master of Social Work students, examining the intricate relationship between people, domestic and wild animals, and the natural world. Tedeschi’s research, scholarship, teaching and community practice work have focused on issues of social and interspecies justice, global perspectives of human-animal interactions, conservation social work and human ecology. He specializes in the bio-affiliative connection between people and animals, the health promoting potential of human-animal and nature interaction, trauma informed care and causes of maltreatment to people and other non-human animals.

Andrea Woroch is a nationally-recognized savings and budgeting expert, writer and regular on-air contributor—helping families find simple ways to save money for over a decade.

As a sought after source on all things finance and savings, Andrea has appeared on hundreds of popular shows across the country including Today, Good Morning America and NBC Nightly News.

Her advice and articles have been featured in New York Times, Money, Cosmopolitan, Forbes and many more. Andrea serves on the Financial Review Board at BankRate.com and is a SmartMoneySquad member at GOBankingRates.com. She was recently named one of the top 100 moms of 2021 by Modern Mom. When Andrea isn’t helping others manage their money, she’s busy balancing her own family budget and chasing after her two young daughters.

You can read more about Andrea at www.andreaworoch.com and follow her on Instagram for daily savings tips.

Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist. As a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant, she has been working with cats for over 20 years. She offers cat behavior consulting through Feline Minds and is currently the Standards & Research Lead at Good Dog.

She completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Here she researched the health and behavior of orphaned neonatal kittens and cats in multi-cat households. With Jackson Galaxy, Dr. Delgado co-authored the 2017 book “Total Cat Mojo.” Additionally Dr. Delgado published her research in several academic journals.

Mikel is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist (Animal Behavior Society), a Certified Cat Behavior Consultant (International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants), and an Affiliate Member of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. She now lives in Sacramento, California with her boyfriend Scott (a cat-loving CPA) and their three rescue cats.

Thierry Bedossa is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, a graduate of the National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort (ENVA). He currently practices at the Pont de Neuilly Veterinary Clinic. In partnership with Dr. Bruno David Benaim, he owns the Pont de Neuilly Veterinary Clinics (Neuilly-sur-Seine), Championnet (Paris 18th), and Itivet Paris (a specialized referral clinic for surgery and imaging in Neuilly-sur-Seine).

A committed veterinarian, he served as a board member of the Société Protectrice des Animaux (French Society for the Protection of Animals) for four years. He is also the founder and president of the AVA – Agir pour la Vie Animale (Act for Animal Life) association.

He has studied and worked in Canada, the United States, Turkey, and Yugoslavia before establishing himself in France as a clinical practitioner.

Thierry Bedossa has served as a professional trainer in numerous agricultural schools specializing in dog and cat professions. He has also taught courses and led seminars in ethology and zootechnics at the National Veterinary School of Alfort, where he practiced behavioral medicine for 20 years.

The author of several books, he frequently appears in various radio and TV programs as a practicing veterinarian and behavioral medicine expert.

He co-founded the training center for professions related to companion animals, Animal University, and manages the “vacation camp” K6 boarding facility for dogs and cats in Normandy.

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