by Duncan | Dec 20, 2023 | General, Musicians
I once again set aside the customary “Talking Animals” format to deliver the Annual Holiday Animal Song special—that is, a show almost entirely devoted to Holiday-oriented animal tunes. As has been required in the past, and as I acknowledged while over-explaining this...
by Duncan | Dec 13, 2023 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Pets
Jason Schramm–a web developer and founder of Veg Groups, where he creates websites intended to help people go vegan, stay vegan, or become informed on vegan-oriented events, or films, on his VegMovies site—notes that he got deeply into computers as a seventh...
by Duncan | Dec 6, 2023 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Musicians, Pets, Rescue
Mark E. Hauber—professor, ornithologist, and author of “Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives”—recalls becoming seriously interested in birds at age four or five. This was in his native Hungary, where, as that little boy, he dragged his mother to view the...
by Duncan | Nov 29, 2023 | Advocates, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Rescue, Wildlife
Jill Horstmann–founder of Squirrelly AF Rescue, a squirrel-focused rescue and rehabilitation operation she runs at her St. Petersburg home—recalls growing up in Wisconsin, where she was that neighborhood kid who tended to injured or ill critters. But it’s hardly...
by Duncan | Nov 15, 2023 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Vegetarian/Vegan, Wildlife
Dr. Justin Perrault–vice president of research at Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC), a nonprofit sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education, and conservation operation in Juno Beach, FL—recalls the early, pioneering work on sea turtles performed by Juno...
