by Duncan | Feb 12, 2020 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, General, Health & Behavior
Alana Miller—founder of the Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, a North Carolina facility that, since 2005, has rescued and provided a forever home for blind cats—recounts her first experience with a blind cat, and how by thee time she’d adopted three more, she realized...
by Duncan | Jan 29, 2020 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Factory Farming, General, Investigations, Legislation, Primates
Ingrid Newkirk—the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and co-author (with Gene Stone) of “animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion”—recalls how she decided on the...
by Duncan | Jan 22, 2020 | Authors, Cats
Craig Pittman—the veteran environmental reporter at The Tampa Bay Times, and author of multiple books, most recently, “Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save The Florida Panther”—explains why, having written a 2010 Tampa Bay Times series about the Florida panther,...
by Duncan | Jan 15, 2020 | Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Veterinarians
Dr. Sue Ettinger—a veterinary cancer specialist, aka “Dr. Sue Cancer Vet”—recalls her road to becoming a vet, after briefly entertaining the idea of pursuing a career involving art history. She describes how she traveled a somewhat serendipitous path that deposited...
by Duncan | Jan 8, 2020 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cetaceans, Educators, General
Tom Mustill—a British director who makes nature and wildlife movies; his latest film is “The Whale Detective” (the impetus: Mustill and a friend were kayaking in Monterey Bay when a humpback whale breached, and just missed landing on them)—recounts when his...
