Captain Paul Watson, a veteran activist and truly legendary figure in the animal world--he was a co-founder of Greenpeace, and went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; in 2000, Time magazine named him one of the environmental heroes of the 20th...
Kristal Parks, a Denver-based veteran activist and elephant advocate--who last year mounted a 12-day hunger strike in Denver while the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus was performing there, to call attention to the suffering of circus...
Marking the first time a talking animal has been a guest on "Talking Animals," Triumph The Insult Comic Dog--best known for his regular, hilarious appearances on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," for which he's "covered" such events as the Westminster Dog Show, the...
Jennifer Swanson & Brad Gaver--founder-directors of Pure Thoughts Inc.-Florida Foal Rescue--discuss their major and ongoing efforts to rescue foals and yearlings from the slaughterhouse (most of these horses are born on farms where the urine from pregnant mares...
Wildlife veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad--Director of The Paw Project, which seeks to educate the public about the often-crippling effects of feline declawing, rehabilitate big cats that have been declawed, and marshal endeavors to end declawing, including...
Carrol Clancy, co-founder of Oasis de los Gatos--a sanctuary for feral cats in Apache Junction, Arizona--discusses the history of Oasis de los Gatos and her own history that led to starting the sanctuary, as well as her theories and time-tested techniques for...
Professor since 1974 of Marine Science at Orange Coast College, Dennis Kelly primarily discusses the Coast Dolphin Project, a multi-faceted study he launched in 1978 (and still directs) that, among other objectives, seeks to determine the population dynamics,...
Co-founder and executive director of The Elephant Sanctuary, Carol Buckley discusses her nearly 30 years with Tarra (the Asian elephant she started working with as a college student) and how those experiences & stages of development with Tarra--while traveling...
Janelle Robinson, Director of Therapy Services at the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center in San Juan Capistrano--which uses horses to help improve the condition of children and adults with a vast array of disabilities, functional limitations and...
Betsy Lipscomb--a cat behavior expert who created The SmartCat "Peek-A-Prize" Toy Box, a device designed to reduce boredom and obesity in housecats (and which got a rave review from the show's in-house, overweight test cat, Curtis)- discusses the development of Toy...
