by Duncan | Jul 22, 2026 | Advocates, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Horses
Dr. Edie Dopking–founder of Quantum Leap Farm, an Odessa, FL-based facility that, for 25 years, has offered an array of equestrian therapy programs, addressing a wide range of conditions, serving constituents who “range from age 2 to 92”—describes her lifelong...
by Duncan | Apr 2, 2025 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Legislation, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca–co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm, a sanctuary in Duette, FL, devoted to rescuing, rehabilitating, and housing pigs, goats, geese, chickens, ducks, cattle, other critters, and no less devoted to cultivating a strong educational...
by Duncan | Feb 12, 2025 | Advocates, Captive Exotic, Cats, Educators, General, Legislation, Mammals, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan, Wildlife
Howard Baskin—often identified as Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue, and spouse of Carole Baskin, the founder of the sanctuary that operated in Tampa for more than three decades—recalls, as a savvy businessman wielding a Harvard MBA, his reaction upon first ...
by Duncan | Oct 30, 2024 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Legislation, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan
Jodie Wiederkehr–veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)—recounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous “Talking Animals” conversation how her earliest professional animal...
by Duncan | Apr 6, 2022 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Pets, Rescue
Danielle Hall—a wildlife ecologist, who, drawing on her professional expertise and her longtime personal passion for animals, has stepped into an intense human-versus-animal battle that’s erupted over vultures in a Tampa neighborhood—explains what a wildlife ecologist...
