Michael Jernigan & Judy Bordignon--staff members at Southeastern Guide Dogs; she's the trainer for Veteran Service Dogs And Facility Therapy Dogs, he's the Community Outreach Coordinator--discuss how the Palmetto, Florida based facility launched its Paws For...
Dr. Edie Dopking--Founder of Quantum Leap Farm, a therapeutic equestrian program based in Odessa, FL--discusses her lifelong love of horses, first getting on a horse at age two and riding throughout her childhood in Kentucky. She also addresses how volunteering at...
Dr. Bonita Bergin--who in 1975 invented the concept of the service dog to assist people with mobility limitations, at which point she founded Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), the first non-profit organization to train and place service dogs--discusses...
Dr. Walter Burghardt, Jr.--veterinarian, chief of behavioral medicine since 1995 at the Daniel E. Holland Military Working Dog Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base, and considered the leading authority on canine post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--describes the...
Dr. Dani McVety--a Lutz-based veterinarian specializing in hospice care and euthanasia, whose practice is called Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice--discusses her background, how her veterinary school training and initial work as an emergency medicine vet prompted her...
Vegan Black Metal Chef--the YouTube culinary sensation who offers online instructional cooking videos, specializing in vegan dishes, delivering the lessons over a soundtrack of black metal, wearing body armor and full make-up, adding a huge dollop of...
Jonathan Balcombe--animal behavior scholar (he holds a PhD in ethology), animal advocate and author of four books, most recently "The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure," which features dozens of gorgeous, often-striking photographs of animals in the...
Dr. Michael Greger--physican, author and internationally-noted expert on nutrition and public health issues--reviews some of the notable and positive developments he discussed a few weeks prior in a panel entitled "Advances In Farm Animal Protection" at the Taking...
Wendy Kelly--an animal behaviorist who's the founder and owner of Pet Peeves Animal Training, Inc., based in Clearwater, FL--discusses her transformation from human therapist to animal behaviorist, including the patterns and categories of behavioral she tends to...
Heide Illgen--a dog trainer at Southeastern Guide Dogs, where she's worked for nearly 20 years--discusses some of the biggest misconceptions surrounding guide dogs. She also explains the process and attendant timetable of a dog potentially becoming a guide dog, a...
