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Liz Marshall, director of “Meat The Future”

By | March 30, 2022 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Pets, Rescue, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Liz Marshall—a documentary director whose latest film, “Meat The Future,” examines the realm of “cultivated meat,” generated in a lab setting, from animal cells, but these animals remain unharmed—explains the criteria she considers when deciding what topic or person will constitute her next movie. Read more…

Dr. Heather Johnston, Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

By | March 23, 2022 | Cats, Dogs, Mammals, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan, Veterinarians, Wildlife | No comments

Dr. Heather Johnston—a veterinarian who serves as the Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida that, in celebration of March being Women’s History Month, is slated to present a “Women in Wildlife Panel Discussion” there on March 29 (featuring Johnston)—recalls that she wanted to be a vet since she was a young kid, and other than a fleeting flirtation with becoming a jockey, that desire never wavered. Read more…

Tori Linder, a producer of “Saving The Florida Wildlife Corridor”

By | February 23, 2022 | Actors & Filmmakers, Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Legislation, Mammals, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter | No comments

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 Florida Wildlife Corridor, and why it’s vitally important that it be protected and preserved. Read more…

Dr. Dani McVety-Leinen, founder of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, and Ross Taylor, photojournalist-filmmaker

By | January 21, 2022 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cats, Dogs, General, Veterinarians | No comments

Dr. Dani McVety-Leinen and Ross Taylor—founder of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, and one of two filmmakers who created the documentary “The Hardest Day,” respectively—discuss how the film was conceived, an outgrowth of an acclaimed photo project Taylor (an accomplished, Pulitzer-nominated photojournalist) produced, capturing families saying goodbye to their seriously-ill pets, as Lap of Love veterinarians help those animals “transition.” Read more…

Ellen Quinlan, executive director of the Darbster Foundation

By | December 29, 2021 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Mammals, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Ellen Quinlan—executive director of the Darbster Foundation (& Darbster Rescue), whose chief mission involves plucking cats and dogs from crowded south Florida shelters, and finding homes for them in the adoption-friendly New England area, with that process including arranging interstate transportation for these animals—recounts growing up in a family that lived with cats and dogs, sometimes other pets, and in what may constitute a pivotal part of the Quinlan, and Darbster, narrative, notes that she stopped eating meat at age 12. Read more…

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