by Duncan | Sep 8, 2021 | Advocates, Dogs
Tim Hetzner—Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) President/CEO and founder of the K-9 Ministry—provides a brief overview of the LCC, including the earliest days, which involved just Hetzner and one half-time employee. But in answer to my question about where the idea for...
by Duncan | Sep 1, 2021 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Pets, Rescue
Diane Delano—founder of the Wild Horse Rescue Center, a Webster, Florida facility that rescues, rehabilitates, and finds new homes for wild horses—recalls growing up amidst a family of horse lovers, and she started riding at age three. This was in the Catskills, where...
by Duncan | Aug 25, 2021 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Captive Exotic, Cats, Legislation, Mammals, Wildlife
Michael Webber—director of the new documentary, “The Conservation Game,” which explores the realm of people who bring animals on late-night talk shows and morning news programs, and may be secretly participating in the exotic pet trade—discusses how his career (which...
by Duncan | Aug 18, 2021 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter
As we did in May, in what was then an experimental effort, on today’s show we jettisoned the regular “Talking Animals” format, presenting a still semi-new extended feature, “Ask The Trainer,” in which listeners are invited to call or email questions or...
by Duncan | Aug 11, 2021 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, General, Mammals, Rescue, Wildlife
David Crawford—co-founder and executive director of Animal Help Now, a Boulder, Colorado-based national organization considered the 911 of wildlife emergencies, a somewhat glib, though not inaccurate, description—observes that he didn’t have a particularly profound...
