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Jodie Wiederkehr, executive director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals

By | May 6, 2020 | Advocates, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Musicians | No comments

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the fourth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the next few weeks.

Jodie Wiederkehr—who, as executive director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA), spearheaded the campaign to ban horse-drawn carriages in Chicago, which mere days before this interview, succeeded—describes what CAA is and some of its other campaigns in Chicago, and ones they assisted with in other parts of the country. Read more…

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers, authors of “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence To Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”

By | October 16, 2019 | Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, General, Horses, Mammals, Primates | No comments

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–New York Times bestselling authors of “Zoobiquity,” whose new book is “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”—in recalling that they both were raising adolescents while working on “Wildhood,” address how much those adolescents shaped the direction of the book and its core concept. Read more…

Stephen Bennett, founder of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief (SOAR)

By | October 9, 2019 | Advocates, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Health & Behavior, Horses, Mammals, Pets, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Stephen Bennett—the founder and executive director of Suncoast Organized Animal Relief, or SOAR, which pursues a mission that involves an unusually broad portfolio of objectives, including providing funding and assistance, and pet food to other animal organizations—recounts growing up in Ithica, NY in a home where pets weren’t allowed, but later on, deeper into adulthood, he made up for lost time, at one point having four dogs and four cats. Read more…

John Doe, X Singer-Songwriter & Horse Guy

By | July 17, 2019 | Advocates, Authors, General, Horses, Musicians | No comments

John Doe—singer/songwriter/co-founder of the band X and author, most recently of “More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk”—conducts this live interview from the Austin horse barn, where his horses Red and Sugar had just received a trim from the farrier. Read more…

John Cherwa, veteran sportswriter who covers horse racing for The Los Angeles Times

By | May 8, 2019 | Authors, Health & Behavior, Horses, Legislation | No comments

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 number now stands at 23, and Cherwa broke that story. Read more…

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