by Duncan | Sep 18, 2013 | Actors & Filmmakers, Adoption, Comedians, Dogs, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter
Comedian, actor and improviser Fred Willard—who delivered a legendary performance as TV commentator Buck Laughlin in “Best In Show,’ the classic Christopher Guest-directed mockumentary set in a canine competition not unlike the Westminster Dog Show—discusses an array...
by Duncan | Sep 11, 2013 | Adoption, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Horses, Pets
Jill Rappaport—veteran journalist who’s about to celebrate 22 years on NBC’s “The Today Show,” where she now specializes in reporting stories about pets and animal welfare–discusses her lifelong love of animals. She goes on to explain how, even as the “Today”...
by Duncan | Aug 28, 2013 | Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, General
Dr. Dee Boersma—the Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science in the University of Washington’s department, and who has been referred to as the “Jane Goodall of Penguins”—discusses the circumstances that precipitated her studying Galapagos penguins, which...
by Duncan | Aug 21, 2013 | Advocates, Captive Exotic, General, Primates, Rescue, Sanctuaries
Kari Bagnall—founder and director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary—recounts the history of how she launched this facility in Gainesville, FL that houses for more than 100 monkeys that were formerly part of the exotic pet trade or had been used in laboratory...
by Duncan | Aug 14, 2013 | Authors, Dogs, Educators, General
Dr. Brian Hare—associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, internationally-recognized expert on dog cognition, and co-author, with Vanessa Woods, of “The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think”—discusses his longtime interest in...
