Nov. 8 | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:49:31 +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 Nov. 8 | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Joshua Lisbon, researcher/educator/storyteller central to “Willow: Diary of a Mountain Lion” https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/joshua-lisbon-researcher-educator-storyteller-central-to-willow-diary-of-a-mountain-lion/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/joshua-lisbon-researcher-educator-storyteller-central-to-willow-diary-of-a-mountain-lion/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:10:00 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12108 Joshua Lisbon–a researcher/educator/storyteller at the center of a new PBS/Nature documentary, “Willow: Diary of a Mountain Lion”—describes his background and experience (and academic training) before working on the 10-year study that formed the core content of this doc.Tongue partly in cheek, Lisbon tried to dismiss his education-heavy history as “wrong” for this project. But given […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/joshua-lisbon-researcher-educator-storyteller-central-to-willow-diary-of-a-mountain-lion/feed/ 0 12108 Andria Gibbon, founder and president of Protecting Paws for Life https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/andria-gibbon-founder-and-president-of-protecting-paws-for-life/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/andria-gibbon-founder-and-president-of-protecting-paws-for-life/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:10:18 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12096 Andria Gibbon–founder and president of Protecting Paws for Life, a nonprofit Florida organization dedicated to helping more domestic violence shelters become pet-friendly–recalls, as a young woman in New Jersey, her transformative first foray into animal rescue, never imagining she’d still be doing it 27 years later. In a conversation pegged to October being Domestic Violence […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/andria-gibbon-founder-and-president-of-protecting-paws-for-life/feed/ 0 12096 Dr. Crystal Heath, veterinarian and activist https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/dr-crystal-heath-veterinarian-and-activist/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/dr-crystal-heath-veterinarian-and-activist/#respond Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:08:23 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12079 Dr. Crystal Heath–a veterinarian who’s bristled at inhumane treatment of animals throughout her career, and before, dating back to her childhood as a 4-H kid discovering the goats she’d raised would be slaughtered—recalls growing up in a rural part of Northern California, adoring animals and riding horses. Dr. Heath, a speaker at the Tampa Bay […]

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