by Duncan | Dec 13, 2017 | Advocates, Comedians, General, Health & Behavior, Pets, Rescue
Scott Hardy—co-founder of Hardy Hayes Refuge, a mom-and-pop rescue-rehab operation with sizable ambitions, and accomplishments to match—outlines his lifelong love of animals, describing a childhood where the insights gleaned from trying to treat a locust as a pet...
by Duncan | Dec 6, 2017 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Kathy Stevens—founder and director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which sprawls over 148 acres in New York’s Hudson Valley, providing refuge to about 300 farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment—recalls a childhood growing up on a horse farm in...
by Duncan | Nov 29, 2017 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, Health & Behavior, Horses, Sanctuaries, Wild
Ronnie Graves—owner of Veterinary Inclusive Prosthetics And Orthotics, in Bushnell, Florida, which, for more than 20 years, has created custom prosthetic limbs for animals suffering from injuries, illnesses, or birth defects—recounts how he got started in the...
by Duncan | Nov 22, 2017 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
For this edition of “Talking Animals,” I scrapped the usual format to present two discussions about sexism, sexual harassment and misconduct within the animal welfare world—against the backdrop of what seems like an endless flurry of disturbing reports about this sort...
by Duncan | Nov 15, 2017 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Legislation, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter
Arin Greenwood and Lee Greenwood—siblings who are both lawyers, skillful writers, and engaged in promoting animal welfare, from different platforms—recount growing up in a house that was, unsurprisingly, brimming with animals (though Arin notes a difficult six-year...
