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Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca, co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm

Duncan — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:38:43 +0000

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 presence—described the remote community of Duette, and what prompted them to settle there. They make clear their original […]

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Howard Baskin, financial guiding light of Big Cat Rescue

Duncan — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:37 +0000

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 getting a close look at the details of Big Cat’s financial operation: He […]

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Jodie Wiederkehr, Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals

Duncan — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:00:12 +0000

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 advocacy work began in 1997.) Wiederkehr explained that she and her initial CAA cohort decided that aiming to ban […]

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Danielle Hall, wildlife ecologist

Duncan — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:00:34 +0000

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 is, and does. Hall recalls loving fauna of all types since early in her childhood, noting she was one […]

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Dan Piraro, creator of comic strip “Bizarro” and graphic novel “Peyote Cowboy”

Duncan — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:00:31 +0000

Dan Piraro—creator of the innovative, acclaimed, and much-beloved comic strip, “Bizarro,” which he’s drawn for more than 35 years, and in which animals (talking, and otherwise) often play a central role—surveys some of the notable changes he’s experienced, personally and professionally, since our last “Talking Animals” conversation, in 2015. Piraro starts by addressing the decision […]

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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, founder of The Paw Project, advocate for banning feline declawing

Duncan — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:00:45 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—a veterinarian and founder of The Paw Project, and a tireless crusader against declawing cats for many years; I first interviewed her about it on “Talking Animals” in 2005, and she’d already been working on the issue for some time—recounts the initial impetus for taking on the cause, spurred by performing reparative surgery […]

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Callers As Guests

Duncan — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:00:35 +0000

About once a year, I jettison the chief component of the “Talking Animals” format—a long form interview with a single guest—to offer a debate or some other multi-guest panel discussion. As part of that periodic effort to rejigger the program, and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and […]

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The Callers Are The Guests

Duncan — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:00:58 +0000

Once in a while, I set aside the chief element of the “Talking Animals” format—a long form interview with a single guest—to offer a debate or some other multi-guest panel discussion. As part of that effort, and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders, as well as […]

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Callers And E-Mailers As Guests

Duncan — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:50 +0000

As part of an ongoing effort to continue experimenting with different approaches to presenting guests and information on “Talking Animals”–and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders–we returned to a format we try to employ once or twice a year. We invited people to call in and […]

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Featuring Two Activists, The Co-Founder Of The Elephant Sanctuary & The VP of Corporate Communications at Feld Entertainment/Ringling

Duncan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:00:14 +0000

GUEST: Scott Blais, Suzanne House, Stephen Payne, Bryan Wilson–Panel Discussion About Ringling Circus Every year since we launched “Talking Animals” in Southern California in 2003, we’ve devoted at least one show annually to spotlighting the plight of the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey circus animals, pegged to Ringling’s local engagement–the Tampa stint opened tonight. […]

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Isabelle Tassi, chief organizer of Tampa Bay Veg Fest

Duncan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:15 +0000

Isabelle Tassi– chief organizer of the second annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest, the Tampa area’s only vegetarian/vegan festival – discusses her educational background and evolution as an animal activist, and describes the main mission and other aspects of Florida Voices For Animals, under whose auspices Tampa Bay Veg Fest is presented. She also places […]

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Jodi Chemes & Nikki Benoit–members of Florida Voices For Animals

Duncan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:00:31 +0000

Jodi Chemes (pictured with a bovine buddy) & Nikki Benoit–members of Florida Voices For Animals, a Tampa-based organization devoted to educating the public about a host of animal issues and fostering compassionate choices–discuss the history and evolution of FVA, how and why increasing awareness about factory farming became FVA’s chief objective (cruelty to animals, environmental […]

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