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....
Nathan Winograd--a nationally-known author, speaker and founder-executive director of the No Kill Advocacy Center, slated to speak on No Kill at a Tampa conference entitled "Save 90" (so-called because studies indicate that 90% of animals entering shelters are...
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...
Sue Wiese--founder and director of Operation Roger, a nonprofit organization chiefly consisting of truckers who use their trucks to transport pets, who'd been in shelters, to new homes across the country--discusses her lifelong long of animals and how she became a...
Dr. Jocelyn Bezner--veterinarian at Save The Chimps, based in Fort Pierce, Fl, and the world's largest sanctuary for rescued chimpanzees--discusses her years working at the sanctuary, alongside late Save The Chimps (STC) founder Dr. Carole Noon, who died in 2009....
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...
Donald Tardy--drummer of pioneering death metal band Obituary, and a longtime, devoted rescuer and caretaker of feral cats in the Tampa area and his girlfriend, Heather Wienker, who together head up the Metal Meowlisha discuss how they began rescuing feral cats....
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,...
Laura Flynn Amato--a Staten Island woman now credited with rescuing upwards of 5000 dogs from puppy mills in and around Lancaster, PA, and as such, is the titular figure of the documentary, "Madonna Of The Mills"--discusses how she learned of the puppy mills in...
