co-founder | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:41:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 co-founder | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Dara Eckart, CEO of Friends of Strays https://talkinganimals.net/2024/06/dara-eckart-ceo-of-friends-of-strays/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/06/dara-eckart-ceo-of-friends-of-strays/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:00:12 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11316 Dara Eckart–CEO of Friends of Strays, St. Petersburg’s oldest no-kill animal shelter, currently undergoing a significant transformation, including opening a cats-only adoption center, The Cat Box on July 1—outlines the shelter’s history, citing key milestones of the early years. Eckart explains that Friends of Strays began in 1978, when co-founder Jean Bomonti, who’d been volunteering […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2024/06/dara-eckart-ceo-of-friends-of-strays/feed/ 0 11316 Scott Blais, co-founder of Global Sanctuary for Elephants https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/scott-blais-co-founder-of-global-sanctuary-for-elephants/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/scott-blais-co-founder-of-global-sanctuary-for-elephants/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 04:00:56 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10264 Scott Blais–co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, whose initial facility is the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil (ESB); he also co-founded The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee—starts by attempting to field my curveball opening question: what makes elephants special? Drawing on 35 years of caring for elephants, he responds chiefly observing how quickly these animals—typically traumatized from […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2023/08/scott-blais-co-founder-of-global-sanctuary-for-elephants/feed/ 0 10264 pattrice jones, co-founder of VINE Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2023/06/pattrice-jones-co-founder-of-vine-sanctuary/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/06/pattrice-jones-co-founder-of-vine-sanctuary/#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:15 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10165 pattrice jones–co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, sprawling across 100 acres in Springfield, Vermont, and a self-described “LGBTQ-led farmed animal sanctuary”—spontaneously describes instances of talking animals’ activity by resident roosters that very morning. jones explains rooster’s crowing goes far beyond the stereotypical heralding thatff morning has broken, citing, for example, one cry that alerts fellow roosters to […]

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