by Duncan | Dec 10, 2025 | Advocates, Educators, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Rescue, Wildlife
Dawn Barbone–founder of Samadhi Wildlife, a nonprofit refuge in Ormond Beach that rehabilitates sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife native to Florida—explains that she hasn’t merely loved animals since she was a child, but has also loved healing them since...
by Duncan | Dec 3, 2025 | Adoption, Advocates, Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Pets, Rescue
Artist-photographer-writer Claire Rosen—who’s cultivated a long, lauded career, with much of her work reflecting a longstanding passion for animals, and celebrated for its sense of whimsy—traces the shaping of this sensibility back to her childhood, reading Beatrix...
by Duncan | Nov 26, 2025 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
As we’ve done 14 times before—spanning the better part of five years–today’s program involved setting aside the usual “Talking Animals” format in order to present the show-length feature, “Ask The Trainer.” In each session of ATT, listeners are invited to call or...
by Duncan | Nov 19, 2025 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Pets, Vegetarian/Vegan, Veterinarians
Dr. Holly Dutton–Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets, a national operation specializing in around-the-clock emergency care for pets—reviews some of the VEG ER distinguishing traits we covered in her June 2025 appearance on...
by Duncan | Nov 12, 2025 | Actors & Filmmakers, Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Legislation, Pets, Spay/Neuter, Veterinarians
Dr. Jennifer Conrad—veterinarian, founder of The Paw Project, tireless crusader against declawing cats for a quarter century—recalls the initial impetus for her anti-declaw advocacy: her work, as a newly-minted veterinarian, with declawed big cats at a wildlife...
