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Dr. Jennifer Conrad, veterinarian & founder of The Paw Project

Duncan — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:08:46 +0000

Dr. Jennifer Conrad—veterinarian, founder of The Paw Project, tireless crusader against declawing cats for a quarter century—recalls the initial impetus for her anti-declaw advocacy: her work, as a newly-minted veterinarian, with declawed big cats at a wildlife sanctuary. Conrad’s own history ended up dovetailing with answering my question about the history of feline declaw itself, […]

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Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times reporter: “The Panda Factories”

Duncan — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:45:09 +0000

Mara Hvistendahl, a The New York Times reporter who wrote “The Panda Factories”–an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism probing the impact of China’s gambit nearly 30 years ago to send pandas to zoos in other countries, hoping the visiting animals would breed, ultimately resulting in pandas that could be returned to the wild–recounts the genesis […]

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Eleanor Spicer Rice, author of “Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World”

Duncan — Wed, 03 May 2023 04:00:40 +0000

Eleanor Spicer Rice, PhD–an entomologist by training, and the author of multiple books, focused on ants and spiders—recounts how she came to write a book about microbes, “Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World.” Spicer Rice explains that a cadre of researchers investigating a particular microbe approached her to write about their research […]

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Rick Chaboudy, co-founder of Suncoast Animal League

Duncan — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:00:39 +0000

Rick Chaboudy—the co-founder and executive director of Suncoast Animal League, the Palm Harbor-based animal welfare organization/shelter that is distinct by virtue of caring for both domestic animals and wildlife—traces the history of his long career working in animal welfare in the Tampa Bay area, going back even before he spent 20-plus years as executive director […]

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Rick Chaboudy, co-founder and executive director of The Suncoast Animal League

Duncan — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:00:22 +0000

Rick Chaboudy, co-founder and executive director of The Suncoast Animal League–a non-profit, no-kill animal rescue agency located in Palm Harbor, FL–addresses some aspects of how the agency operates by way of recounting, step-by-step, what Suncoast did upon receiving an influx of 51 new dogs from Georgia less than 48 hours before this interview. […]

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