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...
by Duncan | Nov 8, 2023 | Adoption, Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Legislation, Pets, Rescue
Carey Theil, executive director of GREY2K USA Worldwide, the largest greyhound protection organization in the world, and Rory Goree, who for many years ran the largest industry-funded greyhound adoption group, Greyhound Pets of America, explain how–as former...