(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...
Linda Tellington-Jones, the veteran animal handler and trainer who created the Tellington Touch, or TTouch, method--a revolutionary technique for handling and training horses, dogs, cats and other domestic animals, and one that's also effectively applied to exotic...
Philip Jenni, Executive Director of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota--which, with a staff of 14 & 400-plus volunteers, cares for injured, ill & orphaned wildlife, treating over 8000 "patients" last year--discusses the history of the Center...
Sarah Khorram--who coordinates the "Rake A Line, Hold A Sign" volunteer program designed to help protect the seals at a cove on the shoreline in La Jolla, California known as the Children's Pool (also called Casa Beach), where the seals ostensibly are already...
Adam Roberts--Vice-President of Born Free USA, an organization working to prevent wild animal suffering, protect threatened species in the wild, and monitor and often improve the welfare of captive wildlife--discusses the genesis of the organization [which is both...
Vicki Stevens, Director of Programs at the Doris Day Animal Foundation--an organization founded, not surprisingly, by Doris Day, and devoted to promoting increased protection for animals--discusses some of DDAF's programs, most notably & imminently "Spay Day...
Terry Wolf--Wildlife Director of Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach, Florida--who drew on his experiences with the animals there during the string of recent hurricanes to comment on animal intuition before a natural disaster strikes, focusing on how and why...
