Karen Ankerstar | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:17:02 +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 Karen Ankerstar | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Patrick Craig, founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2020/08/patrick-craig-founder-of-the-wild-animal-sanctuary/ https://talkinganimals.net/2020/08/patrick-craig-founder-of-the-wild-animal-sanctuary/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:00:53 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8324 Patrick Craig—founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary, launched in 1980, located in Keenesburg, Colorado, and devoted to housing lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other carnivores—recounts what spurred him, at age 19, to start the Sanctuary, and the initial steps he took. Craig figures the unusual, precocious compassion and empathy propelling his desire to help what […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2020/08/patrick-craig-founder-of-the-wild-animal-sanctuary/feed/ 0 8324 Michele Lazarow, activist against pet stores selling puppy mill dogs https://talkinganimals.net/2016/04/michele-lazarow-activist-against-pet-stores-selling-puppy-mill-dogs/ https://talkinganimals.net/2016/04/michele-lazarow-activist-against-pet-stores-selling-puppy-mill-dogs/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:00:10 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=5369 Michele Lazarow—a Hallandale Beach city commissioner and activist who has helped pass numerous laws across Florida preventing pet stories from selling dogs that come from puppy mills—recounts the dreadful experience she had in 2004 after buying her dog, Alfie, from a pet store, which misrepresented where the dog had come from, thereby launching Lazarow on […]

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