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Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:00:40 +0000

Amy Kight—executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida serving as wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, and education center–recalls loving animals so much, so young, that she made an arrangement to start helping out at a veterinarian’s office at age six. Kight goes on to note this represents a lifelong […]

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Jerry Bishop, director of training at F1 K9

Duncan — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:00:29 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the new Stay at Home order, this was the first show I broadcast remotely from home, with in-studio help from my friend/WMNF music director Lee “Flee” Courtney, featuring live and recorded elements… Jerry Bishop—the co-founder and director of training at F1 K9, a Florida-based firm that provides training and […]

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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers, authors of “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence To Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”

Duncan — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:00:36 +0000

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–New York Times bestselling authors of “Zoobiquity,” whose new book is “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”—in recalling that they both were raising adolescents while working on “Wildhood,” address how much those adolescents shaped the direction of the book and its core concept. Noting […]

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Discussion of Amendment 13 with Carey Theil, of Grey2K USA Worldwide, & our Greyhound Correspondent Don Goldstein

Duncan — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:00:24 +0000

For this edition of “Talking Animals,” I presented a special show devoted to greyhounds, and specifically, Amendment 13, the ballot measure that, if it passes on Nov. 6, would end greyhound racing in Florida by 2020. I held this in-studio discussion with Carey Theil, executive director of Grey2K USA Worldwide, a national greyhound protection organization, […]

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