Pinellas County Animal Services | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:48:36 +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 Pinellas County Animal Services | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 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 Emily McCormack, Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge https://talkinganimals.net/2022/11/emily-mccormack-animal-curator-at-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/11/emily-mccormack-animal-curator-at-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:30 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9830 Emily McCormack—the Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR), a sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas housing 94 animals (mostly big cats, plus bears)—recalls being infatuated with tigers since childhood, telling her parents at age 10 or 12 that she intended to save them. Sure enough: Half of TCWR’s 84 big cats are tigers. Over […]

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