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Brigid Wasson, president of Mission Reunite

By | August 1, 2018 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Horses | No comments

Brigid Wasson—the president of Mission Reunite, a nonprofit organization that aims to assist pet owners whose animals are missing—describes her personal and professional involvement with animals, including growing up with cats (but not dogs), and her two stints working at Northern California shelters, the first, in San Mateo, starting as a teenager, the other, years later, in Santa Clara. Read more…

Samantha Szesciorka, equestrian, journalist, mustang adoption advocate

By | July 18, 2018 | Advocates, General, Horses | No comments

Samantha Szesciorka—a Reno-based former U.S. Army journalist whose passion for horses, particularly mustangs, is manifested in some distinctive ways—recalls that she was indeed one of those little girls who loved horses, but didn’t really have access to them until she was a teenager. Read more…

Jodie Wiederkehr, campaign director of Chicago Alliance for Animals

By | January 24, 2018 | Advocates, General, Horses, Legislation | No comments

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! Read more…

Kathy Stevens, founder & director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary

By | December 6, 2017 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Kathy Stevens—founder and director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which sprawls over 148 acres in New York’s Hudson Valley, providing refuge to about 300 farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment—recalls a childhood growing up on a horse farm in Virginia, forging an intense connection with animals early on. Read more…

Ronnie Graves, whose company creates custom prosthetic limbs for animals

By | November 29, 2017 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, Health & Behavior, Horses, Sanctuaries, Wild | No comments

Ronnie Graves—owner of  Veterinary Inclusive Prosthetics And Orthotics, in Bushnell, Florida, which, for more than 20 years, has created custom prosthetic limbs for animals suffering from injuries, illnesses, or birth defects—recounts how he got started in the business of working on those sorts of devices for human clients. Read more…

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