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Alana Miller, founder of The Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary

By | February 12, 2020 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, General, Health & Behavior | No comments

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 she needed to create an entity to serve this feline constituency. Read more…

Rick Chaboudy, co-founder of Suncoast Animal League

By | November 13, 2019 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Rick Chaboudy—the co-founder and executive director of Suncoast Animal League, the Palm Harbor-based animal welfare organization/shelter that is distinct by virtue of caring for both domestic animals and wildlife—traces the history of his long career working in animal welfare in the Tampa Bay area, going back even before he spent 20-plus years as executive director of the Humane Society of Pinellas (previously called Clearwater SPCA). Read more…

James Terry, about Mega Pet Adoption Event; Photographer Laurie Wolf, about Viral Photo

By | May 1, 2019 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, General | No comments

James Terry—Hernando County Animal Services Manager and one of the organizers of the Mega Pet Adoption Event, to be held May 17-19 at the Hernando County Fairgrounds, offering upwards of 700 dogs and cats—explains how the idea for the extravaganza came together: Read more…

Chris Poole, colleague of feline phenoms Cole & Marmalade

By | February 20, 2019 | Actors & Filmmakers, Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Educators, Mammals, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Chris Poole—a Tampa resident best known, as he describes it, being owned by feline phenoms Cole and Marmalade—remembers growing up in Nottingham, England and his family having an array of pets, including his first black cat, Sarah. Read more…

Discussion of Amendment 13 with Carey Theil, of Grey2K USA Worldwide, & our Greyhound Correspondent Don Goldstein

By | October 24, 2018 | Adoption, Advocates, Dogs, General, Pets, Rescue | No comments

For this edition of “Talking Animals,” I presented a special show devoted to greyhounds, and specifically, Amendment 13, the ballot measure that, if it passes on Nov. 6, would end greyhound racing in Florida by 2020. Read more…

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