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...
Jen Watkins and Patty Garvey-Darda--two members of the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, a group in Washington State that formed in reaction to plans to expand Interstate 90 for 15 miles in the Cascades Mountain Range, an area teeming with wildlife--discuss the...
Ann Palik--a Los Angeles-based therapist specializing in grief counseling, including pet bereavement--discusses the process of grief, particularly the phases and feelings specfic to pet loss, including the way guilt can take on a different form ("maybe I should've...
