Dara Eckart | 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 Dara Eckart | 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 Lee Asher, dog adoption champion, social media juggernaut https://talkinganimals.net/2024/04/lee-asher-dog-adoption-champion-social-media-juggernaut/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/04/lee-asher-dog-adoption-champion-social-media-juggernaut/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:00:12 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11193 Lee Asher–a staunch advocate of dog adoption whose profile has risen dramatically in recent years, owing to a handful of factors, including multiple compelling stories: his ADHD and attendant childhood isolation prompted him to regularly visit his local animal shelter as a kid, years later crisscrossing the country in an RV, traveling to animal shelters, […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2024/04/lee-asher-dog-adoption-champion-social-media-juggernaut/feed/ 0 11193 Jessica Janson, East Coast Coordinator of Food for Thought https://talkinganimals.net/2020/06/jessica-janson-east-coast-coordinator-of-food-for-thought/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/06/jessica-janson-east-coast-coordinator-of-food-for-thought/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2020 04:00:50 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8194 Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing (though loosening) Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the eighth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way our broadcasts will come together thru mid-June. Tentatively, we’re due back in […]

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