Darlynn Czerner--founder of Darlynn's Darlins, a Polk City, FL animal sanctuary, advocacy and education organization--discusses the history of the sanctuary, which includes some foreshadowing rescues while living in Tennessee and then Florida. She also addresses...
Laurie Crawford--president of the Animal Network, Inc., a nonprofit based in Manatee County, FL--discusses the history and evolution of the organization, starting out creating new dog parks. Describing the Animal Network as primarily a lobbying group, Crawford went...
Nancy Perry--Vice-President of Government Relations for the American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (ASPCA)--first offers an initial assessment on how pets and other animals in the Northeast were faring in the aftermath of the storm, based on...
Stacey Coleman--Executive Director of Animal Farm Foundation, a New York-based not-for-profit corporation whose mission statement indicates that the organization is chiefly concerned with securing equal treatment and opportunity for "pit bull" dogs--discusses the...
Ted Koran--who, along with his wife Karen, founded and operate The Critter Place, a non-profit sanctuary in Weeki Wachee, FL that's taken in an array of abused, neglected or abandoned and provided them a forever home for nearly 25 years--discusses the history of...
Tied to April being National Adopt A Greyhound month, I conducted a roundtable discussion about the current state of racing greyhounds--and, mostly, former racing greyhounds....
Ellie Laks--the founder of The Gentle Barn, a Southern California sanctuary of sorts that houses 130+ animals that have been rescued from abuse, neglect or slaughter...once they've recovered, the animals are visited and often cared for by abused children--recounts...
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...
