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Zina Goodin, co-founder of Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary

By | March 11, 2020 | Advocates, Dogs, Educators, General, Pets, Sanctuaries | No comments

Zina Goodin— co-founder, with her husband, Michael, of Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, a Mount Juliet, Tennessee haven housing 95 elderly dogs on a two-acre parcel of land–recalls becoming a dog person somewhat later in life, and feeling lukewarm enthusiasm initially when her family adopted its first dog in 1990. Read more…

Logan Vindett, executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary

By | February 26, 2020 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Logan Vindett—executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary, a Citra, FL facility that provides safe, permanent refuge to disabled, abused, abandoned, and neglected farm animals—recounts growing up with a powerful love of animals, with some in her family thinking she should become a veterinarian. Read more…

Scott Blais, co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, currently running Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

By | December 11, 2019 | Advocates, Captive, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Sanctuaries | No comments

Scott Blais—co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, whose initial facility is the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil—begins the conversation aiming to answer my question about what makes elephants magical, what provokes such passionate response to them in so many people. Read more…

Sterling Davis–“Trap King”–Pioneering Expert on TNR and Community Cats

By | December 4, 2019 | Advocates, Cats, Educators, General, Pets, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Sterling Davis—also known as “Trap King,” reflecting his prowess with the humane traps used in the commission of Trap Neuter Return (TNR) of community cats, previously called feral cats—recounts his unlikely path into cat rescue and TNR, and the budding career he turned his back on to travel this path. Read more…

Stephen Bennett, founder of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief (SOAR)

By | October 9, 2019 | Advocates, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Horses, Mammals, Pets, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Stephen Bennett—the founder and executive director of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief, or SOAR, which pursues a mission that involves an unusually broad portfolio of objectives, including providing funding and assistance, and pet food to other animal organizations—recounts growing up in Ithica, NY in a home where pets weren’t allowed, but later on, deeper into adulthood, he made up for lost time, at one point having four dogs and four cats. Read more…

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