GUEST: Scott Blais, Suzanne House, Stephen Payne, Bryan Wilson--Panel Discussion About Ringling Circus Every year since we launched "Talking Animals" in Southern California in 2003, we've devoted at least one show annually to spotlighting the plight of the Ringling...
Karen Atwood--Senior West Coast Vice President and Southwest Coast Foster Coordinator for Florida Parrot Rescue--discusses the founding and evolution of Florida Parrot Rescue (earlier called Tampa Bay Parrot Rescue), and how her own involvement began....
Deborah Nelson--the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a major expose on the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus in the November/December issue of Mother Jones Magazine--outlines aspects of her 30-year journalism career, and what it means...
Jane Wiedlin--The Go-Go's singer-songwriter-guitarist and longtime animal advocate--discusses the forthcoming film, "Doggie Boogie," which she stars in and for which she wrote the title song (which we heard at the top of the show). She also recounts her history as...
Jill Robinson--the founder and executive director of Animals Asia Foundation., a Hong Kong-based organization devoted to the welfare of wild and urban animals in Asia - recounts her initial experiences and observations about the treatment of animals in Asia upon...
Tim Harrison--a recently retired Ohio public safety officer who's spent much of his 30+-year career rescuing exotic animals kept as pets (and sometimes, rescuing the people keeping those pets)--explains what a public safety officer is (trained as a police officer,...
Alan Rabinowitz--the world-renowned zoologist, conservationist and field biologist, whose latest book, "Life In The Valley Of Death: The Fight To Save Tigers In A Land Of Guns, Gold And Greed" will be issued in paperback Sept. 7-- discusses his dim view of zoos...
Scott Lope--Director of Operations at Tampa's Big Cat Rescue, one of the largest sanctuaries of its kind in the world, housing more than 100 big cats, spanning more than 40 acres, and recently named Animal Planet's "Hero Of The Year" ---discusses his background,...
Archele Hundley--a former Ringling Bros. employee on the animal crew who's done PSAs for PETA (though, interestingly, is not a PETA member), has spoken in front of various groups about the plight of circus animals, and testified at the big federal lawsuit against...
Writer-reporter-poet essayist Charles Siebert, the author, most recently, of "The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward A New Understanding Of Animals"--which chronicles his extended encounter with a retired circus chimp named Roger at The Center For Great Apes, a...
