by Duncan | Jul 29, 2026 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Educators, General
Laurie Sumiye–the artist-filmmaker who directed the striking documentary “A Paradise Lost,” a live action/animation hybrid telling the story of the Palila, a small, yellow bird, found only on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, and for whom a landmark lawsuit was...
by Duncan | Jul 22, 2026 | Advocates, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Horses
Dr. Edie Dopking–founder of Quantum Leap Farm, an Odessa, FL-based facility that, for 25 years, has offered an array of equestrian therapy programs, addressing a wide range of conditions, serving constituents who “range from age 2 to 92”—describes her lifelong...
by Duncan | Jul 15, 2026 | Actors & Filmmakers, Adoption, Advocates, Authors, Dogs, Educators
Bill Berloni–renowned for training rescue animals for stage, film, and television in a storied career spanning 50 years—recounts how, as a teenage aspiring theater kid in Connecticut, he was given the opportunity to prepare the dog as the Goodspeed Opera House...
by Duncan | Jul 8, 2026 | Adoption, Captive, Cats, Dogs, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior
Owing primarily to Holiday weekend-related snags in booking guests—and retaining guests that had seemed booked–we set aside our typical format, operating guest-free in something of a throwback to the earlier days of “Talking Animals,” when Animal News segments...
by Duncan | Jul 1, 2026 | Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Veterinarians
Deni Elliott–author of the new memoir, “Catching Sight: How A Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself,” and writer or editor of ten previous books—explains the impetus for penning the new one. Befitting a longtime teacher—she’s professor emerita in the Department of...
