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Rick Chaboudy, co-founder of Suncoast Animal League

By | November 13, 2019 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Rick Chaboudy—the co-founder and executive director of Suncoast Animal League, the Palm Harbor-based animal welfare organization/shelter that is distinct by virtue of caring for both domestic animals and wildlife—traces the history of his long career working in animal welfare in the Tampa Bay area, going back even before he spent 20-plus years as executive director of the Humane Society of Pinellas (previously called Clearwater SPCA). Read more…

Tampa Bay Veg Fest: Former & original organizers, plus keynote speaker Grey

By | October 30, 2019 | Advocates, General, Health & Behavior, Musicians, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

On this edition of the show, we reconfigured the regular format a bit, so as to accommodate taking a good look—from a couple of angles—at the Tampa Bay Veg Fest (TBVF), set this year for Nov. 9 at Perry Harvey Sr. Park. Read more…

Peter Jay Brown, filmmaker of “Eco-Terrorist: The Battle For Our Planet”

By | October 23, 2019 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Cetaceans, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Peter Jay Brown—filmmaker and crew member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for upwards of 40 years, whose new documentary is “Eco-Terrorist: The Battle For Our Planet”—recounts the beginning of the affiliation, being sent to cover Sea Shepherd and its founder, Paul Watson, as a producer-director with the early-80s George Schlatter-produced reality series, “Real People.” Read more…

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers, authors of “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence To Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”

By | October 16, 2019 | Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, General, Horses, Mammals, Primates | No comments

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–New York Times bestselling authors of “Zoobiquity,” whose new book is “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”—in recalling that they both were raising adolescents while working on “Wildhood,” address how much those adolescents shaped the direction of the book and its core concept. Read more…

Stephen Bennett, founder of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief (SOAR)

By | October 9, 2019 | Advocates, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Horses, Mammals, Pets, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Stephen Bennett—the founder and executive director of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief, or SOAR, which pursues a mission that involves an unusually broad portfolio of objectives, including providing funding and assistance, and pet food to other animal organizations—recounts growing up in Ithica, NY in a home where pets weren’t allowed, but later on, deeper into adulthood, he made up for lost time, at one point having four dogs and four cats. Read more…

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