by Duncan | Mar 26, 2014 | Captive Exotic, General, Pets, Rescue, Sanctuaries
Janice Wolf—founder of The Rocky Ridge Refuge, a rescue sanctuary in Midway, AK that’s gained notoriety on Facebook and elsewhere online for its distinctive blend of animals: cats and dogs mix with a capybara, a zebra, a tortoise, a miniature horse, among other...
by Duncan | Mar 19, 2014 | Advocates, Captive Exotic, Cats, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Pets
Laura Fletcher-Taylor—co-founder of Loving Friends Transport, a Clearwater, FL-based nonprofit that transports animals from overcrowded shelters in one part of the country to shelters in another part, where they stand a much better chance of being adopted; they also...
by Duncan | Mar 12, 2014 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Spay/Neuter
Francis Battista—a co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, who helped form a coalition of 70 L.A. organizations in 2012, working with Los Angeles Animal Services, launching NKLA, or No-Kill Los Angeles—discusses the history of the city’s shelter landscape. He...
by Duncan | Mar 5, 2014 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cetaceans, Dogs, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Primates, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Liz Marshall—an award-winning filmmaker whose latest project is directing the acclaimed documentary “The Ghosts In Our Machine,” which chiefly examines the work and life of photographer Jo-Anne McArthur—discusses the meaning behind the film’s titular ghosts. She also...
by Duncan | Feb 26, 2014 | Authors, By Guest, Elephants, Factory Farming, Mammals, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Gretchen Primack—an accomplished writer, poet and animal activist, who poured her passion, and compassion, for animals into one of her collections of poetry, Kind—recounts her earliest attraction to poetry, including winning an award for a poem she wrote at age eight...
