Alison Gianotto--a nationally-recognized expert on animal abuse and founder of Pet-Abuse.com, a sprawling web site and online resource that provides information on virtually all facets of animal abuse and cruelty (from an "Animal Abuse Crime Database," featuring...
Dan Mathews--the vice-president of PETA and the figure responsible for bringing Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde, Morrissey, Pamela Anderson and others into the PETA fold, and for many of the more attention-grabbing campaigns--discusses his fabulous, fascinating, fun...
Sam Simon--who co-created "The Simpsons" and was a writer/producer on a number of other acclaimed TV shows, winning a dozen Emmys and a Peabody Award along the way--discusses the impetus behind creating The Sam Simon Foundation, which offers a number of programs to...
Internationally-renowned horse expert Monty Roberts--who pioneered the gentle, non-abusive equine training technique known as "Join-Up"--defines exactly what the technique is and how it works, outlines how in recent years he's adapted some of the key "Join-Up"...
Captain Paul Watson, a co-founder of Greenpeace who went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society--and whose lifelong activism as a defender of all creatures of the sea has been recogized globally (for instance, Time magazine in 2000 named him one of the...
(circa Nov. 1989- Jan. 4, 2006) Almost fifteen years ago, when I began dating Colleen McGarr, who’s now my wife, she was living with a sleek black cat named Otis. My first impression of Otis was that he was an irascible cuss. My second impression, too. I mean, if...
Gloria Grow--co-founder of the Fauna Foundation, a Canadian animal sanctuary located outside of Montreal that began by rescuing and housing companion and farm animals, and subsequently broadened its efforts to also provide sanctuary for retired chimpanzees who had...
Steve Hindi, founder and president of SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness), was our scheduled guest, but was somehow unavailable for the interview. Still, in his absence, we nonetheless provided some of the info that surely would've come up in conversation,...
Peggy Hoyt, a Florida-based attorney with an MBA whose law firm, Hoyt & Bryan, specializes in estate planning, including pet estate planning--and author of "All My Children Wear Fur Coats: How To Leave A Legacy For Your Pet" which provides all types of...
