Bessie | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:31:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bessie | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Nellie McKay, singer-writer-actor-animal advocate https://talkinganimals.net/2022/02/nellie-mckay-singer-writer-actor-animal-advocate/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/02/nellie-mckay-singer-writer-actor-animal-advocate/#respond Wed, 09 Feb 2022 05:00:58 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9319 Nellie McKay—the singer-writer-actor-animal advocate who first appeared on “Talking Animals” in April of 2004, when her debut album, “Get Away From Me,” was generating rave reviews and buzz galore, partly propelled by “The Dog Song,” her supremely catchy paean to the joys of a canine companion—returns for an unrivaled eighth visit to the program, engaging […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/02/nellie-mckay-singer-writer-actor-animal-advocate/feed/ 0 9319 Nellie McKay, singer-songwriter-activist https://talkinganimals.net/2015/04/nellie-mckay-singer-songwriter-activist/ https://talkinganimals.net/2015/04/nellie-mckay-singer-songwriter-activist/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:38:15 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4582 Nellie McKay — singer-songwriter-activist and true Renaissance woman—discusses her adopted pit bull, Bessie, which gives way to addressing her longstanding zeal for the importance of adopting shelter dogs over buying or breeding dogs. Noting that she had just sat in on a high school class in which the students didn’t know Ralph Nader, Tom Waits and […]

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