Emily Kapes | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:54:22 +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 Emily Kapes | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Elaine West, founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2025/08/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary-2/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/08/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary-2/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:45:35 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11973 Elaine West–the founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary, a refuge housing rescued farm animals she launched in Melrose, Florida, more than two decades ago—explains the origin of her lifelong love of pigs. West pinpoints a particular pig that a local Humane Society was about to send home with “adopters” she felt certain were planning to eat […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/08/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary-2/feed/ 0 11973 Marco Adda, canine researcher, dog trainer, behaviorist https://talkinganimals.net/2018/09/marco-adda-canine-researcher-dog-trainer-behaviorist/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/09/marco-adda-canine-researcher-dog-trainer-behaviorist/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:00:35 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7043 Marco Adda—part of a team of researchers who conducted a recently-published study of so-called “free-ranging dogs” and pet dogs in Bali, Indonesia—recalls his early years, including being born in Milan, and growing up in Naples, where there were packs of stray dogs.In some ways, this proved to be a formative experience (and foreshadowed, as it […]

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