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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…

Dr. Jillian Johnson, chiropractor for humans and animals

By | October 11, 2017 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Horses | No comments

Dr. Jillian Johnson—a chiropractor and owner of Farmhouse Chiropractic, a Tampa-based mobile practice that involves treating humans and animals (her slogan is “chiropractic care for you and the horse you rode in on”)—recalls being a fervent animal lover since she was a kid, first getting on a horse at age 2, and how crucial animals of all kinds were during a childhood marked by her family moving every two to three years because of her Dad’s construction business. Read more…

Listeners Share Hurricane Irma Animal Stories

By | September 13, 2017 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Dogs, General, Horses, Pets, Rescue | No comments

For this edition of “Talking Animals,” we broke format and did something a little different: Setting aside our customary approach of a long-form guest interview and, often, a shorter second interview, I opened the phone lines and invited listeners to Call In To Discuss Hurricane Irma & Animals. Read more…

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