by Duncan | May 6, 2015 | Authors, Health & Behavior
Darlene Arden— author, pet expert and certified animal behavior consultant —discusses some of the many books she’s written over her long career. She also explains what it means to be a certified animal behavior consultant, and the training she underwent. Speaking to...
by Duncan | Apr 29, 2015 | Advocates, Dogs, Legislation, Musicians, Pets
Nellie McKay — singer-songwriter-activist and true Renaissance woman—discusses her adopted pit bull, Bessie, which gives way to addressing her longstanding zeal for the importance of adopting shelter dogs over buying or breeding dogs. Noting that she had just sat in...
by Duncan | Apr 22, 2015 | Authors, Cetaceans, General
John Hargrove —author of “Beneath The Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld And The Truth Beyond Blackfish”—discusses his childhood love for SeaWorld and its orcas, which began with his first visit to the Florida park in 1980 at age six, and subsequently involved...
by Duncan | Apr 15, 2015 | Actors & Filmmakers, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cetaceans, Educators, General
Chris Gug—an innovative and heralded underwater photographer—recalls growing up “landlocked” in Connecticut, enchanted by the sea and dreaming of becoming an underwater photographer, but meanwhile shooting all sorts of pictures locally, until, at 15, having purchased...
by Duncan | Apr 8, 2015 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, General
Helen Macdonald—author of “H is for Hawk,” a wildly-acclaimed, multifaceted memoir that recounts Macdonald’s struggle with the debilitating grief spawned by her father’s sudden death, and her singular solution to that struggle: training a goshawk, a large and...
