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		<title>Max Chesnes, environment reporter for the Tampa Bay Times</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2026/01/max-chesnes-environment-reporter-for-the-tampa-bay-times/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[tortoise-saving results were dramatic]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Max Chesnes&#8211;the award-winning environment reporter for the Tampa Bay Times—a lifelong Floridian, recalls growing up in Jupiter, where he developed an almost religious fervor for nature, spending endless days in (and on) the water, hiking across the terrific parks, and otherwise unwittingly building the foundation of becoming a masterly environment-minded writer. Indeed, in this conversation—I’m [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Jennifer Conrad, veterinarian &#038; founder of The Paw Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/11/dr-jennifer-conrad-veterinarian-founder-of-the-paw-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[" actually an amputation of a cat’s toes at the last joint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“billion dollar a year industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a fundraising cycling event]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[and lameness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavioral problems like biting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California passed an anti-declaw law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conrad predicts the next states to follow suit may be Washington and Oregon The Paw Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[educate the public about feline declawing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[founder of The Paw Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[her thoughts about what it would take for Florida to join the ranks of the no-declaw states]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[largest state to implement such a ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nov. 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[play a pivotal role in guiding legislative efforts to outlaw the declaw procedure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vets make around $900 per declaw]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Jennifer Conrad—veterinarian, founder of The Paw Project, tireless crusader against declawing cats for a quarter century—recalls the initial impetus for her anti-declaw advocacy: her work, as a newly-minted veterinarian, with declawed big cats at a wildlife sanctuary. Conrad’s own history ended up dovetailing with answering my question about the history of feline declaw itself, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Steve Hindi, founder of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/11/steve-hindi-founder-of-showing-animals-respect-and-kindness-shark/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[a caller implored Hindi to stop putting graphic footage online]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[founder of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[he transformed from avid fisherman and hunter to passionate animal advocate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindi countered that upsetting footage is precisely the point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindi’s brother remained  a devoted hunter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seriously unnerved by witnessing a pigeon shoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SHARK is seen as early innovators among animal welfare entities in employing technology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Steve Hindi&#8211;founder of SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), a national animal welfare organization concerned with halting and/or educating the public about pigeon shoots, rodeos, bullfighting, and canned hunts, among other issues—recounts the extended process by which he transformed from avid fisherman and hunter to passionate animal advocate. In his telling, this metamorphosis was lengthy, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Joshua Zeman, director of &#8220;Checkpoint Zoo&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/08/joshua-zeman-director-of-checkpoint-zoo/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[5000 animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[a treasure trove of video clips featuring the zoo’s animals in various scenarios]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Joshua Zeman&#8211;award-winning filmmaker whose new documentary, “Checkpoint Zoo,” arrives in timely fashion, providing a distinctive window into the Russian-Ukraine war, chronicling efforts to care for, then evacuate, some 5000 animals at a Ukrainian zoo called Feldman Ecopark, while bombing was underway—recounts the path from his previous doc, “The Loneliest Whale” to his new film. Zeman [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Nicci Wright, co-founder of the African Pangolin Working Group</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/07/nicci-wright-co-founder-of-the-african-pangolin-working-group/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[George L. Heinrich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the protection and the conservation of the pangolin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nicci Wright&#8211;co-founder and co-chairperson of the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG), dedicated to the protection and the conservation of the pangolin, the world’s most trafficked animal—recalls her first encounter with a pangolin more than two decades ago. Echoing a response commonly experienced after individuals are introduced to these striking-looking animals, Wright felt compelled to help [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/07/nicci-wright-co-founder-of-the-african-pangolin-working-group/">Nicci Wright, co-founder of the African Pangolin Working Group</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Holly Dutton, Medical Director VEG ER for Pets</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/dr-holly-dutton-medical-director-veg-er-for-pets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[been practicing for 11 years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadcast premiere of Don’t Kill Those Bears]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Holly Dutton, Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets&#8211;a national enterprise that specializes in providing around-the-clock emergency and critical care services for pets—flips the script on my mention of the countless guests who work with animals in some capacity, grew up wanting to be a veterinarian, but for [&#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>
		<category><![CDATA[age 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[an arrangement struck with Howard and Carole Baskin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[precocious first foray into big cat rescue]]></category>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[tripod Chihuahua she adopted]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[witnessing their transformation]]></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>Katrina Shadix, founder of Bear Warriors United, advocate extraordinaire</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/05/katrina-shadix-founder-of-bear-warriors-united-advocate-extraordinaire/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 14:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[000; it’s now 4000]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a profound connection with Florida wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and all of Florida’s natural resources and wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at the FWC meeting on May 21 in Ocala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dara Worthington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[described her recent major victory on behalf of manatees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[founder and executive director of Bear Warriors United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends of Strays offers a steady slate of events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing up in rural Seminole County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[is a subspecies of the Black Bear)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katrina Shadix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promising the bear she would never allow another hunt to happen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seminole County Commissioner John Horan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[she later notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slated for June 14]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg’s oldest no-kill animal shelter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Florida Black Bear population was 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Puppy Pride Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tipping her hand that Bear Warriors United plans to file a lawsuit against the FWC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to preserve and protect bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voicing opposition to the hunt through comments emailed to BearComments@MyFWC.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winning its federal lawsuit against the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Katrina Shadix&#8211;founder and executive director of Bear Warriors United (BWU), whose stated mission is to preserve and protect bears, and all of Florida’s natural resources and wildlife—recalls, as a second generation Floridian, the formative joys of growing up in rural Seminole County.Shadix explains how that experience forged a profound connection with Florida wildlife—very much including [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/05/katrina-shadix-founder-of-bear-warriors-united-advocate-extraordinaire/">Katrina Shadix, founder of Bear Warriors United, advocate extraordinaire</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Callers &#038; Emailers Are The Guests</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/05/callers-emailers-are-the-guests/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 00:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Occasionally, I jettison the chief component of the &#8220;Talking Animals&#8221; format&#8211;a long form interview with a single guest&#8211;to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders, concerned animal advocates, and others who simply care about animals. That’s what happened today, when I invited listeners to call in (or email) and briefly serve as the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/05/callers-emailers-are-the-guests/">Callers & Emailers Are The Guests</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kate MacFall &#038; Katherine McGill, discuss FWC’s possible rule changes for trapping</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2025/04/kate-macfall-katherine-mcgill-discuss-fwcs-possible-rule-changes-for-trapping/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kate MacFall and Katherine McGill—longtime wildlife experts joining me for a discussion devoted to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), specifically, the FWC’s current effort to evaluate existing rules for wildlife trapping—address what for many may be the surprising prevalence of trapping in Florida. McGill and MacFall go on to speak to the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/04/kate-macfall-katherine-mcgill-discuss-fwcs-possible-rule-changes-for-trapping/">Kate MacFall & Katherine McGill, discuss FWC’s possible rule changes for trapping</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm sanctuary in Duette FL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[five and a half acre parcel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last FWC bear hunt in 2015]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Pennington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maresca rescued an orphaned calf named Moobee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moobee protected Maresca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity to offer input in person on May 21 in Ocala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proposed new bear hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strong educational program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegan homestead]]></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>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/04/kelly-mccormick-and-glenn-maresca-co-founders-of-florida-rescue-farm/">Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca, co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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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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		<category><![CDATA[30th Annual Have-A-Heart Dinner & Silent Auction Fundraiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[440 acres vs Big Cat’s 60]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advisory Board Chairman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Cat Rescue. Carole Baskin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[details of Big Cat’s financial operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feb. 22]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[for nearly $20 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[founder of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global cat-oriented plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Baskin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keynote speaker Kari Bagnall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitchen table strategy session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management consultant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myriam Parham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offering tours of Big Cat Rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[savvy businessman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[significantly altering the captive big cat landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Veg Fest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Baskins sold the Big Cat Rescue property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to two developers]]></category>
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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>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2025/02/howard-baskin-financial-guiding-light-of-big-cat-rescue/">Howard Baskin, financial guiding light of Big Cat Rescue</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bobbi Brink, founder and director of Lions, Tigers &#038; Bears</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/12/bobbi-brink-founder-and-director-of-lions-tigers-bears/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[rescued tigers Raja and Natasha]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ross photographed the birds in take-off mode]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the crows’ appearance transformed when they started to soar]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Bobbi Brink&#8211;founder and director of Lions, Tigers &#38; Bears (LT&#38;B), a 140-acre animal sanctuary in east San Diego she launched in 2002—recalls living in Texas, planning to open a restaurant (she’s from San Diego), and seeing her first advertisement offering the sale of big cats. She responded to the ad, she explained, not to make [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/12/bobbi-brink-founder-and-director-of-lions-tigers-bears/">Bobbi Brink, founder and director of Lions, Tigers & Bears</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jodie Wiederkehr, Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/jodie-wiederkehr-founder-executive-director-of-the-chicago-alliance-for-animals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jodie Wiederkehr&#8211;veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)—recounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous “Talking Animals” conversation how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997.) Wiederkehr explained that she and her initial CAA cohort decided that aiming to ban [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/jodie-wiederkehr-founder-executive-director-of-the-chicago-alliance-for-animals/">Jodie Wiederkehr, Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Melissa Zepeda, attorney, animal rights advocate, Amendment 2 foe</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/melissa-zepeda-attorney-animal-rights-advocate-amendment-2-foe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Melissa Zepeda&#8211;an attorney and accomplished animal rights advocate, with a notable breadth of interests and topics that have animated her activism—recalls growing up in family that revered animals, then being stopped in her tracks when a fellow high school debate-club member asked her how Zepeda could love her dog yet eat a hamburger. Zepeda not [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/melissa-zepeda-attorney-animal-rights-advocate-amendment-2-foe/">Melissa Zepeda, attorney, animal rights advocate, Amendment 2 foe</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marion Gwizdala, CEO of Advocates for Service Animal Partners Inc. (ASAP)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/09/marion-gwizdala-ceo-of-advocates-for-service-animal-partners-inc-asap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[a wealth of information and resources on the ASAP website: https://serviceanimals.info/]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASAP operates the only 24-hour national hotline]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Marion Gwizdala, CEO of Advocates for Service Animal Partners Inc. (ASAP)—a Tampa-based national nonprofit dedicated to securing, protecting, and advancing the rights and responsibilities of service animal handlers and the businesses they patronize—recalls receiving his first service dog in 1987, and just days later, encountering discrimination when a restaurant he frequented prevented Gwizdala from entering [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/09/marion-gwizdala-ceo-of-advocates-for-service-animal-partners-inc-asap/">Marion Gwizdala, CEO of Advocates for Service Animal Partners Inc. (ASAP)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Melissa Hoppert, horse-racing writer for The New York Times, reporter-producer “Broken Horses”</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/05/melissa-hoppert-horse-racing-writer-for-the-new-york-times-reporter-producer-broken-horses/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 22:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Melissa Hoppert&#8211;a horse-racing writer for The New York Times, and one of two reporter-producers (with Times colleague Joe Drape) featured onscreen in the new horse-racing documentary, “Broken Horses,” a New York Times/FX production streaming on Hulu—recalls becoming enchanted with the horse racing realm as a young girl, after an uncle married into a horse breeding [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/05/melissa-hoppert-horse-racing-writer-for-the-new-york-times-reporter-producer-broken-horses/">Melissa Hoppert, horse-racing writer for The New York Times, reporter-producer “Broken Horses”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ed Stewart, co-founder, president and CEO of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/03/ed-stewart-co-founder-president-and-ceo-of-the-performing-animal-welfare-society-paws/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ed Stewart, co-founder, president and CEO of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)—which blazed a trail in animal rescue, welfare, education, and legislation, and this year, marks its 40th anniversary—recalls what she and co-founder Pat Derby were doing in the earliest days of PAWS. Stewart notes that Derby, his longtime partner who died in 2013&#8211;and [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/03/ed-stewart-co-founder-president-and-ceo-of-the-performing-animal-welfare-society-paws/">Ed Stewart, co-founder, president and CEO of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deborah Howard, founder of the Companion Animal Protection Society</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/01/deborah-howard-founder-of-the-companion-animal-protection-society/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Deborah Howard, founder of the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS)&#8211;self-described as “the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to protecting companion animals from cruelty in pet shops and puppy/kitten mills”—recalls how, in 1989, her disgust upon visiting an Atlanta pet store, and her ensuing examination of the deplorable conditions, led to launching CAPS. Howard recounts [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/01/deborah-howard-founder-of-the-companion-animal-protection-society/">Deborah Howard, founder of the Companion Animal Protection Society</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Daniel Promislow, principal investigator of The Dog Aging Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2024/01/dr-daniel-promislow-principal-investigator-of-the-dog-aging-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Daniel Promislow&#8211;a biogerontologist, professor at the University of Washington, and principal investigator of The Dog Aging Project, a long-term study of health and longevity in dogs—recounts the genesis of the Project. **NOTE: There is static on the line during the first portion of the interview; it does clear up. He explains that it was [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2024/01/dr-daniel-promislow-principal-investigator-of-the-dog-aging-project/">Dr. Daniel Promislow, principal investigator of The Dog Aging Project</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Carey Theil &#038; Rory Goree, greyhound devotees</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/11/carey-theil-rory-goree-greyhound-devotees/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Carey Theil, executive director of GREY2K USA Worldwide, the largest greyhound protection organization in the world, and Rory Goree, who for many years ran the largest industry-funded greyhound adoption group, Greyhound Pets of America, explain how&#8211;as former enemies in the battle to end greyhound racing&#8211;they transformed into allies. Goree and Theil (co-author&#8211;with Christine Dorchak, GREY2K [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2023/11/carey-theil-rory-goree-greyhound-devotees/">Carey Theil & Rory Goree, greyhound devotees</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jane O’Hara,  animal advocate and artist</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/05/jane-ohara-animal-advocate-and-artist-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10123</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jane O’Hara, the animal advocate and artist&#8211;whose paintings tend to celebrate animals or explore animal issues—recalls a regular upbringing, amidst conventional companion animals. Only some years later, O’Hara adds, did she start researching animals, reading some influential books, becoming steeped in the good, the bad, and the ugly of eating and otherwise mistreating animals. It [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. Jane Goodall</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/04/dr-jane-goodall-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10054</guid>

					<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>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2023/04/dr-jane-goodall-2/">Dr. Jane Goodall</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alene Anello, founder and president of Legal Impact for Chickens</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/03/alene-anello-founder-and-president-of-legal-impact-for-chickens/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Alene Anello&#8211;founder and president of Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC), a nonprofit dedicated to bringing lawsuits that benefit chickens—recalls growing up in a family with plenty of animals, mostly dogs. However, when at age 11, she asked for her very own animal, her parents gave her a cockatiel, Conrad. Anello says that Conrad lived for [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2023/03/alene-anello-founder-and-president-of-legal-impact-for-chickens/">Alene Anello, founder and president of Legal Impact for Chickens</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>April Goodwin, attorney &#038; founder of The Goodwin Firm</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2023/01/april-goodwin-attorney-founder-of-the-goodwin-firm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>April Goodwin, an attorney and founder of Largo-based The Goodwin Firm, a law firm specializing in pet law services</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2023/01/april-goodwin-attorney-founder-of-the-goodwin-firm/">April Goodwin, attorney & founder of The Goodwin Firm</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emily McCormack,  Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/11/emily-mccormack-animal-curator-at-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9830</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Emily McCormack—the Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR), a sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas housing 94 animals (mostly big cats, plus bears)—recalls being infatuated with tigers since childhood, telling her parents at age 10 or 12 that she intended to save them. Sure enough: Half of TCWR’s 84 big cats are tigers. Over [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Katrina Shadix, founder of Bear Warriors United</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/08/katrina-shadix-founder-of-bear-warriors-united/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<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>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2022/08/katrina-shadix-founder-of-bear-warriors-united/">Katrina Shadix, founder of Bear Warriors United</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katherine McGill &#038; Kate MacFall: discussing proposed changes to Florida’s trapping regulations</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/07/katherine-mcgill-kate-macfall-discussing-proposed-changes-to-floridas-trapping-regulations/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Two experts on Florida wildlife, Katherine McGill and Kate MacFall, discuss proposed changes to the state's trapping regulations</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2022/07/katherine-mcgill-kate-macfall-discussing-proposed-changes-to-floridas-trapping-regulations/">Katherine McGill & Kate MacFall: discussing proposed changes to Florida’s trapping regulations</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kimberly Carroll, Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/07/kimberly-carroll-toronto-based-animal-activist-leader-and-consultant/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kimberly Carroll— a veteran Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant—recalls growing up in Manitoba, a sensitive child with a precocious connection to animals, yet like her family members and most fellow Manitobans, she was also an enthusiastic meat eater. Carroll recounts that falling for twin calves during a calving season—while pondering what fate befell most [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2022/07/kimberly-carroll-toronto-based-animal-activist-leader-and-consultant/">Kimberly Carroll, Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Helaine Olen, opinion writer for The Washington Post</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2022/04/helaine-olen-opinion-writer-for-the-washington-post/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Helaine Olen— an opinion writer for The Washington Post, an expert on personal finance, and author or co-author of books, including “The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated,” who recently wrote a Post piece headlined “Stop the inhumane practice of renting pets”—addresses the breadth of subjects covered in her column, which [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2022/04/helaine-olen-opinion-writer-for-the-washington-post/">Helaine Olen, opinion writer for The Washington Post</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tori Linder, a producer of “Saving The Florida Wildlife Corridor”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tori Linder—a producer of “Saving The Florida Wildlife Corridor,” a documentary that travels through the titular Corridor, the 18 million-acre, statewide network of public preserves and private working lands, while examining the ongoing conflict between Florida’s explosive population  growth and rampant development, and it’s green infrastructure—starts the conversation by explaining, more fundamentally, what constitutes the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2022/02/tori-linder-a-producer-of-saving-the-florida-wildlife-corridor/">Tori Linder, a producer of “Saving The Florida Wildlife Corridor”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project, advocate for banning feline declawing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Jennifer Conrad—a veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project, and a tireless crusader against declawing cats for many years; I first interviewed her about it on “Talking Animals” in 2005, and she’d already been working on the issue for some time—recounts the initial impetus for taking on the cause, spurred by performing reparative surgery [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Kitty Block, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 04:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kitty Block—President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), as well as CEO of Humane Society International, HSUS’ global division—discusses getting a precocious start working in animal welfare, in that her Mom was an animal activist. Block recalls how, as a second grader, she went on a school field trip to [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Michael Webber, director of &#8220;The Conservation Game&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Michael Webber—director of the new documentary, “The Conservation Game,” which explores the realm of people who bring animals on late-night talk shows and morning news programs, and may be secretly participating in the exotic pet trade—discusses how his career (which included working on numerous studio features and other films, television shows and other projects) forever [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2021/08/michael-webber-director-of-the-conservation-game/">Michael Webber, director of “The Conservation Game”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kristen Hassen, Director of American Pets Alive! &#038; Human Animal Support Services</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kristen Hassen—a highly-respected figure in the animal shelter world, owing to her accomplishments and innovations during major stints leading or helping lead animal facilities, and now Director of American Pets Alive!, through which she oversees other projects and initiatives, including Human Animal Support Services—recounts the dreadful circumstances that led to her forging a profound bond [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2021/07/kristen-hassen-director-of-american-pets-alive-human-animal-support-services/">Kristen Hassen, Director of American Pets Alive! & Human Animal Support Services</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<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>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/">Barbara Trask Lovett, president of Save Nosey Now, advocate for captive elephants</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder &#038; president of PETA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ingrid Newkirk—the co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and co-author (with Gene Stone) of “animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion”—recalls how she decided on the book’s format. Newkirk outlines some of the things she learned over the course of working on “animalkind. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2020/01/ingrid-newkirk-co-founder-president-of-peta/">Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder & president of PETA</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arin Greenwood, ALDF Senior Writer, ex-animal journalist, author of animal-oriented novels</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/09/arin-greenwood-aldf-senior-writer-ex-animal-journalist-author-of-animal-oriented-novels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Arin Greenwood is a “Talking Animals” favorite and a friend of the show. She’s also currently Senior Writer at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, formerly animal journalist extraordinaire—she was the animal welfare editor at The Huffington Post, and a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Today Show website, and The Dodo, among others. She’s [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/09/arin-greenwood-aldf-senior-writer-ex-animal-journalist-author-of-animal-oriented-novels/">Arin Greenwood, ALDF Senior Writer, ex-animal journalist, author of animal-oriented novels</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rick Kriseman, Passionately Pro-Pet Mayor of St. Petersburg, FL</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/06/rick-kriseman-passionately-pro-pet-mayor-of-st-petersburg-fl/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rick Kriseman—the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, who, a year ago, signed a proclamation declaring St. Petersburg a pet-friendly city—recounts growing up loving animals, dogs in particular. Mayor Kriseman describes how he and his family got started as puppy raisers for Southeastern Guide Dogs, bringing home their first assigned puppy, Jim, when he was 12 [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/06/rick-kriseman-passionately-pro-pet-mayor-of-st-petersburg-fl/">Rick Kriseman, Passionately Pro-Pet Mayor of St. Petersburg, FL</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Cherwa, veteran sportswriter who covers horse racing for The Los Angeles Times</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/05/john-cherwa-veteran-sportwriter-who-covers-horse-racing-for-the-los-angeles-times/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>John Cherwa—a sportswriter (or editor) for 40+ years, who covers horse racing for The Los Angeles Times—explains the scene before the race at this year’s Kentucky Derby, especially given the growing concern and scrutiny leveled at the racing industry, chiefly in the wake of the string of horse deaths at the Santa Anita track; that [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/05/john-cherwa-veteran-sportwriter-who-covers-horse-racing-for-the-los-angeles-times/">John Cherwa, veteran sportswriter who covers horse racing for The Los Angeles Times</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bruce Friedrich, co-founder &#038; executive director of The Good Food Institute</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/03/bruce-friedrich-co-founder-executive-director-of-the-good-food-institute/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Bruce Friedrich—the co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), which promotes plant-based dairy, eggs, and so-called clean meat, as alternatives to those items as produced by animal agriculture (factory farming)—outlines how, starting at age 12, he toiled on behalf of the homeless, inspired by an influential pastor and his faith. In response [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/03/bruce-friedrich-co-founder-executive-director-of-the-good-food-institute/">Bruce Friedrich, co-founder & executive director of The Good Food Institute</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cathryn Michon &#038; W. Bruce Cameron, screenwriters of “A Dog’s Way Home”</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2019/01/cathryn-michon-w-bruce-cameron-screenwriters-of-a-dogs-way-home/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Cathryn Michon &#38; W. Bruce Cameron—screenwriters of the movie, “A Dog’s Way Home,” based on Cameron’s novel, and which had opened nationwide less than a week before this conversation—discuss the enthusiastic reception accorded the film: high audience ratings, third in box office sales on its opening weekend, after “Aquaman” and “The Upside,” some very favorable [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2019/01/cathryn-michon-w-bruce-cameron-screenwriters-of-a-dogs-way-home/">Cathryn Michon & W. Bruce Cameron, screenwriters of “A Dog’s Way Home”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Save The Frogs!</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/08/dr-kerry-kriger-founder-of-save-the-frogs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Kerry Kriger—the founder of Save The Frogs!, which describes itself as the world’s leading amphibian conservation organization—reconstructs the distinctive path he traveled academically and geographically (including a mechanical engineering undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia; studying endangered birds in Hawaii, alongside PhD students; earning his own PhD in environmental science at a university [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2018/08/dr-kerry-kriger-founder-of-save-the-frogs/">Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Save The Frogs!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jodie Wiederkehr, campaign director of Chicago Alliance for Animals</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2018/01/jodie-wiederkehr-campaign-director-of-chicago-alliance-for-animals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jodie Wiederkehr—campaign director for Chicago Alliance For Animals (CAA), she’s spearheading CAA’s campaign to ban horse carriages in Chicago—recalls how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997, but that she grew up in a politically-engaged household that was forever taking in sick or injured animals, including a baby lamb! She describes other campaigns [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2018/01/jodie-wiederkehr-campaign-director-of-chicago-alliance-for-animals/">Jodie Wiederkehr, campaign director of Chicago Alliance for Animals</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arin Greenwood &#038; Lee Greenwood, sibling animal welfare advocates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Arin Greenwood and Lee Greenwood—siblings who are both lawyers, skillful writers, and engaged in promoting animal welfare, from different platforms—recount growing up in a house that was, unsurprisingly, brimming with animals (though Arin notes a difficult six-year stretch, start when she was 6, when the family went dog-less). The Greenwoods agreed there was no predict [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/11/arin-lee-greenwood-sibling-animal-welfare-advocates/">Arin Greenwood & Lee Greenwood, sibling animal welfare advocates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Corry, producer of &#8220;PlantPure Nation&#8221; and &#8220;Forks Over Knives&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/10/john-corry-producer-of-plantpure-nation-and-forks-over-knives/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>John Corry—a veteran filmmaker and producer whose credits include “Forks Over Knives”; he also produced “PlantPure Nation,” a documentary screening at the 8th Annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest, Nov. 4 at Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park—recalls how he began his career shepherding TV and film projects. He explains how he became involved with “Forks Over Knives,” [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/10/john-corry-producer-of-plantpure-nation-and-forks-over-knives/">John Corry, producer of “PlantPure Nation” and “Forks Over Knives”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracy Voss, founder of TracysDogs</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/09/tracy-voss-founder-of-tracysdogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tracy Voss—the co-founder of TracysDogs, a San Antonio, Texas-based organization that pulls dogs from high-kill shelters, rehabilitates them, then adopts them out to families across the country, transporting the dogs in their 32-foot trailer—discusses growing up as a dog devotee, and how a beloved black Lab significantly helped her navigate through a somewhat awkward, isolated [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/09/tracy-voss-founder-of-tracysdogs/">Tracy Voss, founder of TracysDogs</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Denice Heatherly, co-founder of Music City Animal Advocates</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/07/denice-heatherly-music-city-animal-advocates-co-founder/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6237</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Denice Heatherly—co-founder of Music City Animal Advocates, a non-profit organization whose stated goal is “to create an animal-saving culture in greater Nashville and surrounding counties” —describes her formative years, when her grandmother was a serious animal lover, and always had a dog, whereas Heatherly’s mother didn’t want animals in their house. She recalls moving to Nashville [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/07/denice-heatherly-music-city-animal-advocates-co-founder/">Denice Heatherly, co-founder of Music City Animal Advocates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/07/priscilla-feral-friends-of-animals-president/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Priscilla Feral—the president of Friends of Animals, an international animal advocacy organization founded in 1957—discusses FoA’s late founder, Alice Herrington, outlining the characteristics that helped account for her pioneering inroads. Feral also addresses her circumstances, as a young woman, that deposited her at the Friends of Animals offices in 1974 (when she commuted each day [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/07/priscilla-feral-friends-of-animals-president/">Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jessica Rubin, professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/06/jessica-rubin-law-professor/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jessica Rubin—a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law who’s at the forefront of a new law in that state, allowing judges to appoint legal advocates for abused animals in criminal cases—recalls her strong kinship with animals growing up, including that her mother ran a small rescue out of their home. Rubin notes that [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/06/jessica-rubin-law-professor/">Jessica Rubin, professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anthony Bellotti, founder of the White Coat Waste Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/05/anthony-bellotti-founder-of-the-white-coat-waste-project/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Anthony Bellotti — founder of the White Coat Waste Project—describes his formative years, and the role animals played in them, highlighting his pivotal experience as a high school student, when he worked as an intern in an animal experimentation lab, and was horrified by what he witnessed. That jarring misadventure was the impetus, nearly two [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/05/anthony-bellotti-founder-of-the-white-coat-waste-project/">Anthony Bellotti, founder of the White Coat Waste Project</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>W. Bruce Cameron, bestselling author, most recently of &#8220;A Dog&#8217;s Way Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/05/w-bruce-cameron-bestselling-author-most-recently-of-a-dogs-way-home/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>W. Bruce Cameron — the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, including &#8220;A Dog&#8217;s Purpose,&#8221; made into a feature film starring Dennis Quaid —discusses how he decided to make Breed Specific Legislation, or BSL (in this case, Denver’s ban on pit bulls) a core element of his new novel, “A Dog’s Way Home.” Cameron [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/05/w-bruce-cameron-bestselling-author-most-recently-of-a-dogs-way-home/">W. Bruce Cameron, bestselling author, most recently of “A Dog’s Way Home”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ginger Kathrens, wild-horse advocate, filmmaker, executive director of The Cloud Foundation</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/04/ginger-kathrens-wild-horse-advocate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ginger Kathrens —wild-horse advocate, filmmaker, and executive director of The Cloud Foundation—discusses the mustang, Cloud, who is the focus of three of her films, and the namesake of the Foundation she founded, whose stated mission is dedication “to the preservation of wild horses and burros on public lands, with a special focus on Cloud’s herd [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/04/ginger-kathrens-wild-horse-advocate/">Ginger Kathrens, wild-horse advocate, filmmaker, executive director of The Cloud Foundation</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stephen Wells, executive director of Animal Legal Defense Fund</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2017/03/stephen-wells-executive-director-of-animal-legal-defense-fund/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Goldstein]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Stephen Wells—the executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF)—traces his intriguing, sometimes colorful, career path before joining ALDF, particularly his years in Alaska, where, among other developments, he formalized his commitment to becoming a professional animal advocate. (His early time in Alaska included participating in the clean up of the Exxon Valdez oil [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2017/03/stephen-wells-executive-director-of-animal-legal-defense-fund/">Stephen Wells, executive director of Animal Legal Defense Fund</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/12/dr-jennifer-conrad-founder-of-the-paw-project-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Jennifer Conrad—the veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project, which has long educated the public about the painful and crippling effects of feline declawing, and who, as of this interview, has made more appearances on “Talking Animals” than any other guest&#8211;reviews what exactly the feline declaw procedure involves. She notes that the term is [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2016/12/dr-jennifer-conrad-founder-of-the-paw-project-2/">Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adam Sugalski, executive director of OneProtest</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/11/adam-sugalski-executive-director-or-oneprotest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Adam Sugalski—executive director of OneProtest, a Florida-based advocacy organization perhaps best known for its high-profile, successful effort to help halt the Florida bear hunt—recalls how he first stepped into the role of advocate when, as a professional artist, he was invited to a circus protest and realized the appearance of the signs and other materials [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2016/11/adam-sugalski-executive-director-or-oneprotest/">Adam Sugalski, executive director of OneProtest</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Callers As Guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>About once a year, I jettison the chief component of the “Talking Animals” format—a long form interview with a single guest—to offer a debate or some other multi-guest panel discussion. As part of that periodic effort to rejigger the program, and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2016/10/callers-as-guests/">Callers As Guests</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Raymond J. Lesniak, State Senator of New Jersey</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2016/09/raymond-j-lesniak-state-senator-of-new-jersey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Raymond J. Lesniak—veteran State Senator of New Jersey, who has a distinguished track record of working on behalf of animals and animal welfare—explains that he didn’t really harbor any political ambition while growing up, sort of wandering into that realm after graduating from Rutgers University and St. John’s Law School. But once he tried his [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Dr. James Keen, veterinarian and whistle blower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. James Keen—a veterinarian and scientist, and surely one of this era’s most significant whistle blowers in the animal welfare realm&#8211;describes the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC), a 55 square-mile livestock research facility in Nebraska, where Keen had been directly employed from 1991-2007, before moving over to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s veterinary clinic. Dr. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Thomas Ponce, 15-year-old activist &#038; founder of Lobby For Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Thomas Ponce—the 15-year-old activist and founder (at age 12) of Florida-based Lobby For Animals—recalls the circumstances that triggered his precocious interest in animal activism, as well as how hearing about the importance of lobbying at an animal rights conference in Washington, DC inspired his focus on that action. Ponce describes the mechanics of launching Lobby [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Michele Lazarow, activist against pet stores selling puppy mill dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Michele Lazarow—a Hallandale Beach city commissioner and activist who has helped pass numerous laws across Florida preventing pet stories from selling dogs that come from puppy mills—recounts the dreadful experience she had in 2004 after buying her dog, Alfie, from a pet store, which misrepresented where the dog had come from, thereby launching Lazarow on [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Richard Couto, founder of the Animal Recovery Mission (ARM)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/richard-couto-founder-of-the-animal-recovery-mission-arm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Richard Couto— founder, chief executive director and lead investigator of the Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), the Miami-based organization that made international news recently by leading what’s been called “the largest tactical strike on extreme animal cruelty operations in U.S. history&#8221;—recounts what he views as a pivotal moment, a catalyst really, in making a full commitment [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for PAWS</title>
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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>
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		<title>Dr. Steven Tauber, author of “Navigating The Jungle: Law, Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Steven Tauber&#8211;Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Government &#38; International Affairs at the University of South Florida, whose just-published book is “Navigating The Jungle: Law, Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement”—discusses how, because he experienced allergies and asthma as a child, he did not grow up with any animals. As an [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Nellie McKay, singer-songwriter-activist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nellie McKay — singer-songwriter-activist and true Renaissance woman—discusses her adopted pit bull, Bessie, which gives way to addressing her longstanding zeal for the importance of adopting shelter dogs over buying or breeding dogs. Noting that she had just sat in on a high school class in which the students didn’t know Ralph Nader, Tom Waits and [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Nathan Runkle, founder of Mercy For Animals&#8230;Plus, Joan Jett!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nathan Runkle—founder and president of Mercy For Animals—recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999. He discusses Mercy For Animals’ early years and early achievements, as well as the evolution of the organization [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2015/03/don-anthony-of-the-animal-rights-foundation-of-florida-arff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Don Anthony&#8211;Communications Director of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF), which, since 1989, has been speaking and acting on behalf of animals in a multitude of ways—traces the history of the organization, including the impetus for its founding. He discusses ARFF’s initial campaigns, and initial victories, including helping persuade the city of Hollywood, FL [&#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>Myriam Parham, co-founder of Florida Voices For Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Myriam Parham—the co-founder and president of Florida Voices For Animals (FVA)—traces the history of the organization, which she formally launched with her mother, Elena Flanagan, in 1989, but was functioning informally some years before that. Parham recounts the early days of FVA—a Tampa-based animal advocacy organization&#8211;and the earliest campaigns and educational efforts, and how, over [&#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>Tom Junod, Esquire writer and author of &#8220;The State Of The American Dog&#8221;</title>
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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>Carter Dillard, co-founder of Four Feet Forward</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/07/carter-dillard-co-founder-of-four-feet-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Carter Dillard—the co-founder of Four Feet Forward, a collective of attorneys, accountants, graphic designers, communication specialists who offer their services, pro bono, to help grassroots animal advocacy organizations—recounts the circumstances that spurred him, his sister, Courtney Dillard, and their friend, Adam Sugalski, to create FFF in 2003. As part of recalling Four Feet’s history, he [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2014/07/carter-dillard-co-founder-of-four-feet-forward/">Carter Dillard, co-founder of Four Feet Forward</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marianne Thieme, founder of the Party for the Animals</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/06/marianne-thieme-founder-of-the-party-for-the-animals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Marianne Thieme—the founder and chairwoman of the Party for the Animals, a political party in the Netherlands—discusses a bit of her history, and how that led to her co-founding, in 2002, of the Party, which is chiefly concerned with animal welfare, and affecting change in that realm from within…as members of Parliament. She recalls the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2014/06/marianne-thieme-founder-of-the-party-for-the-animals/">Marianne Thieme, founder of the Party for the Animals</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anthony Damiano, president of Alliance for Earth, Life, Liberty &#038; Advocacy (AELLA)</title>
		<link>https://talkinganimals.net/2014/05/anthony-damiano-president-of-alliance-for-earth-life-liberty-advocacy-aella/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duncan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Anthony Damiano—president and co-founder of the Alliance for Earth, Life, Liberty &#38; Advocacy (AELLA), an environmental, animal and human rights organization—discusses his childhood and formative years as an activist, launched when he began writing about environmental issues. He recalls an experience more than a decade ago, observing an isolated beluga whale pushing around a beach [&#8230;]</p>
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