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		<title>Lenore Braford and Paul Drake, co-founders of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2026/03/lenore-braford-and-paul-drake-co-founders-of-piedmont-farm-animal-refuge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[“Forever Home” presents a rich profile of the Refuge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ARC Walk slated to happen May 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Antoniou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-founders of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devoted to reducing pet overpopulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dogs on leashes are welcome]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drake being an architectural designer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drake recalls attending a screening of an earlier Argo documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[each structure is uniquely tailored to the species housed there]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[he’s a creative dreamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[her stint at Farm Sanctuary memorizing the names of all 300 or more animals living there]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[highly-innovative animal sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history dates back to meeting on their first day of school at Oberlin College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenore Braford and Paul Drake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenore recalls how a budding interest in launching an animal sanctuary put her on the path to securing internships and other opportunities at assorted sanctuaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Allison Argo profiling the Refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payne Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflecting their behavioral inclinations and preferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[she’s a disciplined realist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Pig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[they’ve helped establish the Sanctuary Swap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you quickly recognize Paul as a creative mastermind]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Lenore Braford and Paul Drake&#8211;co-founders of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, a highly-innovative animal sanctuary in North Carolina; owing to Drake being an architectural designer, each structure is uniquely tailored to the species housed there, reflecting their behavioral inclinations and preferences—discuss “Forever Home,” the new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Allison Argo profiling the Refuge.In addressing the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Elaine West, founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/08/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[a fairly singular development amongst animal sanctuaries: reinvention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chief curator at the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cow cuddling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elaine West. Rooterville Animal Sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embracing agritourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Kapes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intricate drawings of artist Sarah Kaizar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[merely relying on donations is no longer viable]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saint Petersburg repository of various types of art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[visitors to Rooterville are afforded more freedom than those visiting other sanctuaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you can even hold your wedding at Rooterville!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you can stay at Rooterville]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Elaine West&#8211;the founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary, a refuge housing rescued farm animals she launched in Melrose, Florida, more than two decades ago—explains the origin of her lifelong love of pigs. West pinpoints a particular pig that a local Humane Society was about to send home with “adopters” she felt certain were planning to eat [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Tanya Smith, founder &#038; president of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/tanya-smith-founder-president-of-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[30+ Big Cat Rescue cats relocated to Turpentine Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[42 big cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[459-acre sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a lifelong commitment when it comes to caring for big cats and other animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[she describes the rewards of providing a safe and happy life to animals who’ve often previously lived in horrific conditions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the animal population at Turpentine Creek stands at upwards of 125]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Cat Public Safety Act]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tanya Smith&#8211;Founder and President of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, a 459-acre sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, chiefly housing abused, abandoned, and neglected big cats—recalls a precocious first foray into big cat rescue…at age 11. She explains that this was the outgrowth of her parents—inveterate animal lovers—intervening in an odd, colorful situation where a lion cub [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/tanya-smith-founder-president-of-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/">Tanya Smith, founder & president of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kari Bagnall, founder of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/04/kari-bagnall-founder-of-jungle-friends-primate-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[200 monkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April 24]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagnall underscores the difficulty of keeping Jungle Friends fully staffed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenges faced by those who run animal sanctuaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confiscated by the authorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earliest iteration of Jungle Friends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[retired from laboratory research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[she’s currently hiring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Amazing Give]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[their property spans some 42 acres]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kari Bagnall&#8211;founder and executive director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, which offers permanent care to nearly 200 monkeys retired from laboratory research, who are former pets, or have been confiscated by the authorities&#8212;recalls the first monkey that entered her world, and forever altered her life. As part of this account, Bagnall describes creating the earliest [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca, co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/04/kelly-mccormick-and-glenn-maresca-co-founders-of-florida-rescue-farm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[304 bears were killed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maresca rescued an orphaned calf named Moobee]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca&#8211;co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm, a sanctuary in Duette, FL, devoted to rescuing, rehabilitating, and housing pigs, goats, geese, chickens, ducks, cattle, other critters, and no less devoted to cultivating a strong educational presence—described the remote community of Duette, and what prompted them to settle there. They make clear their original [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Michael Schneider, founder of Pilots To The Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/03/michael-schneider-founder-of-pilots-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadened its mission]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[celebrating its 10th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration with Humane World for Animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[founder of Pilots To The Rescue]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Michael Schneider, a pilot and founder of Pilots To The Rescue—which flies animals from shelters plagued by low rates of adoption (and, often, high rates of euthanasia), to rescues where foster or forever homes have been arranged—describes the career reinvention that preceded his taking flying lessons. Schneider remembers that, back then, like most new pilots, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Howard Baskin, financial guiding light of Big Cat Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/02/howard-baskin-financial-guiding-light-of-big-cat-rescue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Howard Baskin—often identified as Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue, and spouse of Carole Baskin, the founder of the sanctuary that operated in Tampa for more than three decades—recalls, as a savvy businessman wielding a Harvard MBA, his reaction upon first  getting a close look at the details of Big Cat’s financial operation: He [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Rebecca Reid, Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/07/rebecca-reid-director-of-education-at-busch-wildlife-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rebecca Reid&#8211;Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation (wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, education center) in Jupiter Farms, Florida—discusses the readily observable love for her job, and its probable roots in her passion for animals, and being outdoors, while growing up in New Jersey. Reid recalls it was a childhood joyously replete [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/07/rebecca-reid-director-of-education-at-busch-wildlife-sanctuary/">Rebecca Reid, Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anton Ptushkin, director of “Saving the Animals of Ukraine&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/05/anton-ptushkin-director-of-saving-the-animals-of-ukraine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Anton Ptushkin&#8211;director of the PBS Nature documentary profiling the efforts of Ukrainian citizens to rescue animals amidst the destruction of the war—describes the sort of travel pieces he produced as a YouTuber, before he morphed into a war correspondent. Ptushkin notes that this transformation wasn’t the product of a specific ambition, but rather, reflected an [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Jennifer Langston, founder of Golden Ears Sanctuary and Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/05/jennifer-langston-founder-of-golden-ears-sanctuary-and-rescue/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 21:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jennifer Langston&#8211;founder of Golden Ears Sanctuary and Rescue, a specialized refuge for senior and hospice dogs in Wesley Chapel, FL—recalls growing up in a house where dogs were always present, whether they be fosters, newly-adopted, or the family pooch. Notably, for the canine establishment she would create later in life, she recounts that her Mom [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/05/jennifer-langston-founder-of-golden-ears-sanctuary-and-rescue/">Jennifer Langston, founder of Golden Ears Sanctuary and Rescue</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lee Asher, dog adoption champion, social media juggernaut</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/04/lee-asher-dog-adoption-champion-social-media-juggernaut/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Lee Asher&#8211;a staunch advocate of dog adoption whose profile has risen dramatically in recent years, owing to a handful of factors, including multiple compelling stories: his ADHD and attendant childhood isolation prompted him to regularly visit his local animal shelter as a kid, years later crisscrossing the country in an RV, traveling to animal shelters, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/04/lee-asher-dog-adoption-champion-social-media-juggernaut/">Lee Asher, dog adoption champion, social media juggernaut</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scott Blais, co-founder of Global Sanctuary for Elephants</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/scott-blais-co-founder-of-global-sanctuary-for-elephants/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Scott Blais&#8211;co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, whose initial facility is the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil (ESB); he also co-founded The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee—starts by attempting to field my curveball opening question: what makes elephants special? Drawing on 35 years of caring for elephants, he responds chiefly observing how quickly these animals—typically traumatized from [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Gene Baur, co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/gene-baur-co-founder-and-president-of-farm-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gene Baur&#8211;co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, which Baur helped launch in 1986—responds to the observation that, nearly 40 years later, he could be excused if some days felt “same old, old,” recounting some of the activities that currently most invigorate him. Fortunately, for him (and, really, for the rest of us), Baur explains he [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Susan Hanus, executive director of Cat Depot</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/susan-hanus-executive-director-of-cat-depot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Susan Hanus&#8211;executive director of Cat Depot, a unique feline-only shelter in Sarasota—recalls when she first became a cat person. Hanus has remained staunchly feline-friendly ever since, though, she explains, she stopped living with them when it turned out one of her kids is allergic to cats. Hanus outlines some of the traits that help make [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/susan-hanus-executive-director-of-cat-depot/">Susan Hanus, executive director of Cat Depot</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>pattrice jones, co-founder of VINE Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/06/pattrice-jones-co-founder-of-vine-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>pattrice jones&#8211;co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, sprawling across 100 acres in Springfield, Vermont, and a self-described “LGBTQ-led farmed animal sanctuary”—spontaneously describes instances of talking animals’ activity by resident roosters that very morning. jones explains rooster’s crowing goes far beyond the stereotypical heralding thatff morning has broken, citing, for example, one cry that alerts fellow roosters to [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Diana Goodrich, co-director of the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Diana Goodrich&#8211;co-director of the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, located not far from Seattle, and housing 15 chimps—says she can’t recall a time she didn’t want to work with animals. Goodrich traces the winding path, academically and professionally, that led her to helping lead the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, addressing the qualities she finds captivating about chimps. When [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Jane Goodall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Jane Goodall&#8211;the ethologist, activist, and conservationist who rose to international attention in the 1960s, propelled by her pioneering work studying chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania—offers her current impressions of young people’s attitudes about animals and the environment. She recalls the beginnings of Roots &#38; Shoots, a youth program of the Jane Goodall Institute, launched in [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Katrina Shadix, founder of Bear Warriors United</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Katrina Shadix is founder of Bear Warriors United (BWU), whose mission includes preserving and protecting bears in Florida</p>
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		<title>Rebekah Keat and Siri Lindley, activists working to end horse slaughter</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/06/rebekah-keat-and-siri-lindley-activists-working-to-end-horse-slaughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rebekah Keat and Siri Lindley—highly vocal (and highly effective, as it turns out) advocates for ending horse slaughter—recall a pivotal horse, Savannah, who served as a catalyst for their advocacy. Lindley remembers having some of the equipment for a horse, and the inclination to rescue one, before Savannah entered her life. But it was a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Heather Johnston, Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Heather Johnston—a veterinarian who serves as the Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida that, in celebration of March being Women’s History Month, is slated to present a “Women in Wildlife Panel Discussion” there on March 29 (featuring Johnston)—recalls that she wanted to be a vet since she was [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the Bronx Zoo through a writ of habeas corpus, aiming to change her status from “thing” to “legal person”—reviews NhRP’s legal gambit when we previously [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Carol Buckley, longtime expert in the care of captive elephants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Carol Buckley—a longtime expert in the care of captive elephants, who co-founded The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, moving on to found Elephant Aid International, a nonprofit organization “that creates innovative approaches to the care and management of captive elephants”—seeks to address, 47 years into working with these animals, what exactly it is about elephants that [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Erin Amerman, founder of Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Erin Amerman—the founder of Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary, which across two facilities located in and around Gainesville, FL houses some 150 cows, making it, they say, the country’s largest cow sanctuary, while providing refuge to other rescued farm animals, including pigs, donkeys, turkeys, and horses—traces her animal rescue path back to being a seven-year-old with [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Melanie Sue Bowles, founder-director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2021/08/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Melanie Sue Bowles—founder and director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, who alongside her husband, Jim, has shepherded the sanctuary through nearly 30 years of challenges, changes, and relocations, in service of rescuing horses and providing them refuge—recalls helping her very first horse, when they were decidedly not horse people. Although she didn’t grow up riding, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Joshua Zeman, director of &#8220;The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2021/07/joshua-zeman-director-of-the-loneliest-whale-the-search-for-52/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Joshua Zeman—the director of  “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52,” a feature-length documentary chronicling the science-oriented pursuit of a whale that experts think has spent his whole life in solitude because, they believe, he’s communicating at a frequency no other whale can understand—addresses the observation that this film represents a departure from his past [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Glen Zipper, producer of Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Dogs&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Cat People&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2021/06/glen-zipper-producer-of-netflixs-dogs-cat-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Glen Zipper—executive producer of the Netflix documentary series “Dogs,” whose second season begins airing July 7; Zipper also oversees a new feline-minded Netflix series, “Cat People,” which premieres July 7—describes the reaction from viewers to the first season of “Dogs”: clamoring for a second season, while another contingent blanketed Zipper with fervent entreaties for a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>pattrice jones, cofounder of  LGBTQ-led VINE Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2021/06/pattrice-jones-cofounder-of-lgbtq-led-vine-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>pattrice jones —cofounder of VINE (Veganism is the Next Evolution) Sanctuary, 100-acre facility in Vermont, a self-described “LGBTQ-led farmed animal sanctuary” we wanted to spotlight as we celebrate Pride Month—outlines VINE’s history and evolution, including its initial incarnation as Eastern Shore Sanctuary, which primarily housed chickens, and was located in Maryland. jones recalls the impetus [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Barbara Trask Lovett, president of Save Nosey Now, advocate for captive elephants</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Barbara Trask Lovett—president of Save Nosey Now, member of the Board of Directors of The Elephant Advocacy Project, and generally a veteran advocate for improving the lives of captive elephants—recounts part of her background and how earlier efforts for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (at times, working closely with Paul Watson) gradually mutated into parallel concerns [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Caleb Smith, 16-year old entrepreneur, author, &#038; comfort rabbit guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Caleb Smith—who, at 16 years old, is already an accomplished entrepreneur and the author of a memoir of sorts, “Peacebunny Island: the Extraordinary Journey of A Boy And His Comfort Rabbits and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope &#38; Kindness—shares what it’s like to be a 16-year-old who has published a book, the response “Peacebunny” [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Kim Sturla, executive director of Animal Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kim Sturla—executive director of Animal Place, the 600-acre farmed animal sanctuary in Grass Valley, California she co-founded in 1989—recounts that she had been employed by a local humane society for some time before launching Animal Place, having already spent a number of years “working with and for animals.” Sturla describes how the passion and zeal [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Amy Kight—executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted  operation in Jupiter, Florida serving as wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, and education center&#8211;recalls loving animals so much, so young, that she made an arrangement to start helping out at a veterinarian’s office at age six. Kight goes on to note this represents a lifelong [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Patrick Craig, founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Patrick Craig—founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary, launched in 1980, located in Keenesburg, Colorado, and devoted to housing lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other carnivores—recounts what spurred him, at age 19, to start the Sanctuary, and the initial steps he took. Craig figures the unusual, precocious compassion and empathy propelling his desire to help what [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Lori Marino, founder and president of The Whale Sanctuary Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/06/lori-marino-founder-of-the-whale-sanctuary-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the 10th program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the final one of its kind for now. We’re due back in the studio on June [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Jessica Janson, East Coast Coordinator of Food for Thought</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/06/jessica-janson-east-coast-coordinator-of-food-for-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing (though loosening) Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the eighth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way our broadcasts will come together thru mid-June. Tentatively, we’re due back in [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Patti Ragan, founder of The Center for Great Apes</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/05/patti-ragan-founder-of-the-center-for-great-apes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the fifth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the next few weeks. Patti Ragan—the founder of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Karen Davis, founder-president of United Poultry Concerns</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/karen-davis-founder-president-of-united-poultry-concerns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the third program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the foreseeable future. Karen Davis—founder of United Poultry [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>William Nimmo, founder of Tigers in America, assesses &#8220;Tiger King&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/04/william-nimmo-founder-of-tigers-in-america-assesses-tiger-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the second program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will be assembled for the foreseeable future. William Nimmo—founder of  Tigers in [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Zina Goodin, co-founder of Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/03/zina-goodin-co-founder-of-old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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&#8211;recalls becoming a dog person somewhat later in life, and feeling lukewarm enthusiasm initially when her family adopted its first dog in 1990. But, in relatively short order, she [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2020/03/zina-goodin-co-founder-of-old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary/">Zina Goodin, co-founder of Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Logan Vindett, executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2020/02/logan-vindett-executive-director-of-kindred-spirits-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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. Vindett recalls working at a zoological park, which involved caring for exotic [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2020/02/logan-vindett-executive-director-of-kindred-spirits-sanctuary/">Logan Vindett, executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scott Blais, co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, currently running Elephant Sanctuary Brazil</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/12/scott-blais-co-founder-of-the-global-sanctuary-for-elephants-running-elephant-sanctuary-brazil/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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. Noting our last full-length interview was in 2013, at which point the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil was [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/12/scott-blais-co-founder-of-the-global-sanctuary-for-elephants-running-elephant-sanctuary-brazil/">Scott Blais, co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, currently running Elephant Sanctuary Brazil</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teo Alfero, founder &#038; CEO of The Wolf Connection sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/07/teo-alfero-founder-ceo-of-the-wolf-connection-sanctuary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Teo Alfero—founder and CEO of the Wolf Connection sanctuary, which specializes in rescuing domesticated wolves and dogs with varying degrees of wolf content, and author of “The Wolf Connection: What Wolves Can Teach Us About Being Human”—outlines three traits of wolves most people wouldn’t know that make them special animals. Alfero agrees with the observation that [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/07/teo-alfero-founder-ceo-of-the-wolf-connection-sanctuary/">Teo Alfero, founder & CEO of The Wolf Connection sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dave Du Toit, founder of The Vervet Monkey Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dave Du Toit—founder and co-director of the Vervet Monkey Foundation, a 57-acre sanctuary in South Africa dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of not just Vervet Monkeys, but other primates who’ve been orphaned, injured, abused, were used in lab testing, or former pets—provides an overview of Vervets and what traits distinguish them. He addresses how [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Glen Zipper, creator-executive producer of the Netflix documentary series &#8220;Dogs&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/11/glen-zipper-creator-executive-producer-of-the-netflix-documentary-series-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Glen Zipper—the creator and executive producer of  “Dogs,” the Netflix six-part documentary series (and whose resume includes producing the Oscar-winning doc “Undefeated”)—recalls growing up in an animal-free household, pets having been declared verboten by his father. Zipper also recounts his transformation into a dog guy: He was living in New Jersey, working as a criminal [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Keith Wilkins &#038; Melissa Dollard, of Seaside Seabird Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Keith Wilkins and Melissa Dollard—the Director of Operations and Hospital Supervisor, respectively, at the Seaside Seabird Sanctuary, in Indian Shores, FL that rescues and rehabilitates sick, injured and orphaned wild birds—explain the brief history of the sactuary, founded in 2016, clarifying the differences between Seaside and a similarly-named entity  (Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary) that previously operated for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Cameron O’Steen, photographer-founder of the Yoga Animalia Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/09/cameron-osteen-photographer-founder-of-the-yoga-animalia-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Cameron O’Steen—a photographer who created the Yoga Animalia Project, which involves traveling to farm animal sanctuaries across the country, and shooting portraits of the animal residents there—recalls his earliest experiences with farmed animals, as a kid growing up on his grandparents’ ranch, north of Los Angeles. The first real friendship he forged with one of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Arin Greenwood, journalist and author of &#8220;Your Robot Dog Will Die&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/04/arin-greenwood-journalist-and-author-of-your-robot-dog-will-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Arin Greenwood—a journalist who specializes in writing about animal welfare, and whose sterling new novel, “Your Robot Dog Will Die,” was published Tuesday (April 17)—offers her synopsis of the book, and recalls key elements of the setting, story, and fundamental themes that she arrived at while in the formative stages of writing “Your Robot Dog [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Erika Abrams, co-founder &#038; president of Animal Aid Unlimited</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/04/erika-abrams-co-founder-president-of-animal-aid-unlimited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Erika Abrams—co-founder and president of Animal Aid Unlimited, a rescue operation, hospital, and sanctuary in Udaipur, India—recalls the circumstances under which she, her husband, Jim, and daughter, Claire, began traveling to India in the late 1980s. While noting she wasn’t (and still isn’t) well-traveled, and that her initial interest in the country was rooted in [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Rachel McCrystal, executive director of Woodstock Farm Santuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/03/rachel-mccrystal-executive-director-of-woodstock-farm-santuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rachel McCrystal—executive director of Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, which rescues farmed animals and provides refuge for them, now housing around 400 animals—recalls a childhood marked by a houseful of animals, featuring a preponderance of rattlesnakes and other reptiles (her biologist dad was a herpetologist). McCrystal points to two pivotal moments in those formative years that presaged [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Elaine West, founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Elaine West—the founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary, a haven housing about 300 rescued farm animals, predominantly pigs, located in Melrose, FL—recalls the first pig she met, as a kid at her aunt’s farm in Illinois, describing a love-at-first-sight sensation that’s continued for decades. West also recounts the circumstances surrounding the first pig she rescued, when [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Amy Kight—newly named executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary (though she’s worked at the Jupiter, FL wildlife refuge, hospital, rehabilitation facility, and educational center since 2004)—discusses being so passionate about working with animals and so eager to do so as a very determined little kid that she landed a gig helping out at a veterinarian’s [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Kathy Stevens, founder &#038; director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/12/kathy-stevens-founder-director-of-catskill-animal-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kathy Stevens—founder and director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which sprawls over 148 acres in New York’s Hudson Valley, providing refuge to about 300 farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment—recalls a childhood growing up on a horse farm in Virginia, forging an intense connection with animals early on. The passion for animals, she explains, has [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Ronnie Graves, whose company creates custom prosthetic limbs for animals</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/11/ronnie-graves-whose-company-creates-custom-prosthetic-limbs-for-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ronnie Graves—owner of  Veterinary Inclusive Prosthetics And Orthotics, in Bushnell, Florida, which, for more than 20 years, has created custom prosthetic limbs for animals suffering from injuries, illnesses, or birth defects—recounts how he got started in the business of working on those sorts of devices for human clients. An amputee himself, Graves mentions he was [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Sarah Baeckler Davis, president &#038; CEO of Project Chimps</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/12/sarah-baeckler-davis-president-ceo-of-project-chimps/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sarah Baeckler Davis—a primatologist and lawyer who is president and CEO of Project Chimps, a relatively new chimpanzee sanctuary in Northern Georgia—discusses how, at eight years old, reading a book about Jane Goodall absolutely fascinated her, and she decided right then that she wanted to do the same kind of work. That objective, and the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Tippi Hedren, actress &#038; animal advocate</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/12/tippi-hedren-actress-animal-advocate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tippi Hedren—the actress and longtime animal advocate, who recently published her memoir, “Tippi: A Memoir”—discusses Shambala Preserve, her sanctuary for rescued lions, tigers and other big cats that she established in 1972, and where Hedren, now 86 years old, still lives. She addresses the background and experiences animals of the who live there, and how [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Lisa Kemmerer, professor of philosophy and religions, editor of &#8220;Bear Necessities&#8221; anthology</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/08/dr-lisa-kemmerer-professor-of-philosophy-and-religions-editor-of-bear-necessities-anthology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Lisa Kemmerer—a professor of philosophy and religions at Montana State University Billings, who has written and/or edited none books—discusses her unusual, stop-start path as an academic, including what drew her to Harvard Divinity School, where she earned her Masters degree. Kemmerer addresses her prolific writing career, and the conceptual (and actual) wanderlust that has driven [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Steve Jenkins, co-author of &#8220;Esther The Wonder Pig: Changing The World One Heart At A Time&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/05/steve-jenkins-co-author-of-esther-the-wonder-pig-changing-the-world-one-heart-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Steve Jenkins—co-author, with Derek Walter and Caprice Crane, of “Esther The Wonder Pig: Changing The World One Heart At A Time”—discusses how Esther entered his and Walter’s world: He got duped into adopting her when she was a baby, having been told she was a micro-pig. This “micro-pig” grew to 650 pounds. Jenkins recalls some of the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Helena Kriel, founder of Baby Rhino Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/03/helena-kriel-founder-of-baby-rhino-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 04:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Helena Kriel—founder of Baby Rhino Rescue, which seeks to raise awareness of the rhino poaching crisis, and raise money for the care of baby rhinos who’ve become orphaned through that poaching—recalls her formative years in South Africa, growing up with a strong affinity for animals. Still, as she reached adulthood, she explains, working with animals [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Darcy Dennett, director of &#8220;The Champions&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/03/darcy-dennett-director-of-the-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Darcy Dennett—the director of “The Champions,” a documentary chiefly about the pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring—outlines her professional experience that served as a prelude to this, her feature film debut. She explains the passion that propelled her through making “The Champions,” partly born of similar work—and attachments formed with some of the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Lori Marino, founder of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Lori Marino—founder and executive director of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, as well as a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and intelligence—explains exactly what a neuroscientist is, and how that academic orientation informs her thinking about animal behavior as opposed to, say, an animal behaviorist without that scientific training. Marino describes what prompted her [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Ron King, Co-Founder of Ruff Ranch Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/12/ron-king-co-founder-of-ruff-ranch-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ron King— co-founder of Ruff Ranch Sanctuary, which seeks to find homes for aging or other hard-to-place dogs while aiming to help military veterans, who will become the chief caretakers of the dogs—explains how his lifelong kinship with dogs began as a kid. He discusses how that affinity has become a through line of his [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Melanie Sue Bowles, Founder-Director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Melanie Sue Bowles— founder-director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary and the author of three books—provides a brief overview of the work she’s done at the sanctuary for nearly 25 years, as a prelude for discussing a momentous Facebook she had recently written. That lengthy post lamented the ugly frustrations of fundraising that Bowles has experienced over [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-2/">Melanie Sue Bowles, Founder-Director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon Theisen, 14-year-old environmentalist, animal advocate and educator</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/avalon-theisen-14-year-old-environmentalist-animal-advocate-and-educator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Avalon Theisen—the 14-year-old Tampa environmentalist, animal advocate, and founder of Conserve It Forward—describes what Conserve It Forward is and does, and what prompted her to launch it 2010 (at age nine). She explains how the organization has evolved, including adding an element that reflects her growing interest in “a plant-based lifestyle,” noting that she’s working [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/avalon-theisen-14-year-old-environmentalist-animal-advocate-and-educator/">Avalon Theisen, 14-year-old environmentalist, animal advocate and educator</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for PAWS</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/catherine-doyle-director-of-science-research-and-advocacy-for-paws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Catherine Doyle&#8211;Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and a noted, veteran elephant advocate —explains what’s behind her longtime passion for working to improve the welfare of captive elephants, while noting, interestingly, that in her formative years in Chicago, she was a regular zoo visitor yet has no particular [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/catherine-doyle-director-of-science-research-and-advocacy-for-paws/">Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for PAWS</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>pattrice jones, cofounder of VINE Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/08/pattrice-jones-cofounder-of-vine-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>pattrice jones — cofounder of VINE (Veganism Is the Next Evolution) Sanctuary, a 100-acre facility in Vermont that describes itself as an “LGBTQ-run farmed animal sanctuary that has worked to build bridges between the animal advocacy and LGBTQ liberation movements”—discusses the impetus for launching in 2000, with cofounder Miriam Jones, what was then Eastern Shore [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Indra Lahiri, founder of Indraloka Animal Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/08/indra-lahiri-founder-of-indraloka-animal-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4767</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Indra Lahiri — founder of Indraloka Animal Sanctuary in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, one of the few sanctuaries that houses both farm animals and other species—recalls having a close connection with animals as a child, including being that prototypical neighborhood kid who tends to sick or injured animals. Into adulthood and beyond, rescuing animals became athrough line [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Gene Baur, co-founder of Farm Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/05/gene-baur-co-founder-of-farm-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4617</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gene Baur—co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, and author of “Living The Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide To Eating Mindfully, Living Longer and Feeling Better Every Day”—provides an overview of Farm Sanctuary since he helped launch it in 1986 and its current mission, sort of Farm Sanctuary 101. Baur addresses the conversations he and co-author [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2015/05/gene-baur-co-founder-of-farm-sanctuary/">Gene Baur, co-founder of Farm Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Nimmo, founder of Tigers In America</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/01/william-nimmo-founder-of-tigers-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>William Nimmo— founder of Tigers In America, a New York City-based nonprofit that seeks to help mitigate the captive-bred tiger crisis in the U.S.—explains how a guy in the midst of career in banking and brokerage got started rescuing tigers in 2011. He recalls how, having stepped into that world, by way of intervening at [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Mark Feldstein, author of  “Last Stop Before Rainbow Bridge&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/12/mark-feldstein-author-of-last-stop-before-rainbow-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mark Feldstein— author of “Last Stop Before Rainbow Bridge: True Animal Rescue Stories,” a compendium of tales about a wide array of animals that have been rescued at facilities across the country—discusses how the book was inspired by his stepfather, the late Al Feldstein. Al was a key editor and leading creative force at MAD [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Michele Raffin, founder of Pandemonium Aviaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA["The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among The Exotic & The Endangered]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Michele Raffin— founder and CEO of Pandemonium Aviaries, a Northern California conservation organization dedicated to saving birds—recounts how rescuing an injured dove she spotted on the side of the road some 15 years ago launched her on the long, winding road she traveled moving Pandemonium from seat-of-the-pants rescue operation to internationally prominent breeding facility for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Ed Stewart, co-founder and president of PAWS</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/11/ed-stewart-co-founder-and-president-of-paws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ed Stewart—co-founder and president of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)—recalls what prompted he and his late partner, the indefatigable Pat Derby, to launch PAWS, now marking its 30th anniversary. In answer to a question about what ways the PAWS mission has changed over the years, Stewart explains they never expected to be running a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Glenda Smith, founder of Equestrian Inc. Horse Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/09/glenda-smith-founder-of-equestrian-inc-horse-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Glenda Smith—founder and president of Equestrian Inc. Horse Rescue—discusses becoming besotted with horses as a little girl, starting to ride at age five. She recalls how, as an adult, she underwrote her horse habit—which soon became her horse rescue habit—by working as tennis professional. (She had attended USF on a tennis scholarship.) Smith explains how [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Leo Grillo, founder of D.E.L.T.A. Rescue</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/09/leo-grillo-founder-of-d-e-l-t-a-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Leo Grillo—founder of D.E.L.T.A. (Dedication &#38; Everlasting Love To Animals) Rescue—recalls the circumstances that prompted him to start the 115-acre Acton, CA sanctuary, which this year marks its 35th anniversary. He discusses the guiding principle that led him to help those initial three dozen abandoned dogs he discovered in the mountains, and that drives his [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Ellie Phipps Price, co-writer of the film &#8220;American Mustang&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/08/ellie-phipps-price-co-writer-of-the-film-american-mustang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ellie Phipps Price—executive producer and co-writer of “American Mustang,” a film exploring the round-ups of wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—discusses her lifelong love of horses, which began in childhood. She recalls when she first became aware of the round-ups, and that an essential part of that growing awareness was Deanne Stillman’s [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Tom Junod, Esquire writer and author of &#8220;The State Of The American Dog&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/08/tom-junod-esquire-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tom Junod—two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Esquire writer-at-large—discusses the impetus for writing “The State Of The American Dog,” his extended examination of the plight and perception of the pit bull that appears in the August issue of Esquire. Drawing on a wealth of reporting and research for the story, Junod also wove in his [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Janice Wolf, founder of The Rocky Ridge Refuge</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/03/janice-wolf-founder-of-the-rocky-ridge-refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Janice Wolf—founder of The Rocky Ridge Refuge, a rescue sanctuary in Midway, AK that’s gained notoriety on Facebook and elsewhere online for its distinctive blend of animals: cats and dogs mix with a capybara, a zebra, a tortoise, a miniature horse, among other critters—recalls her history of tending to animals that extends back to caring [&#8230;]</p>
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