Brigid Wasson—the president of Mission Reunite, a nonprofit organization that aims to assist pet owners whose animals are missing—describes her personal and professional involvement with animals, including growing up with cats (but not dogs), and her two stints working at Northern California shelters, the first, in San Mateo, starting as a teenager, the other, years later, in Santa Clara. Read more…
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Joel Rockey, executive director of One Last Treat
Joel Rockey—executive director of One Last Treat, a nonprofit founded by a group of veterans whose mission (carried out by veterans who volunteer) is “to provide comfort, compassion, and one last treat to severely at-risk and soon-to-be-passing animals”—discusses his own history, including growing up with various animals, but at that point, being indifferent to them. Read more…
Sue Wiese, founder of Operation Roger
Sue Wiese–founder and director of Operation Roger, a nonprofit organization chiefly consisting of truckers who use their trucks to transport pets, who’d been in shelters, to new homes across the country–discusses her lifelong long of animals and how she became a truck driver as a second career in her 50s, based in Texas. Read more…
Kevin Nealon–Former “Saturday Night Live” star
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Kevin Nealon [www.KevinNealon.com], discussing animal organizations, animal rights & activism, shelters, veggie diets, etc.
Also on the August 25th show:
COMEDY CORNER: Stiller & Meara’s “The Whale.”
MUSIC: My Morning Jacket’s “Cobra,” The Starlight Mints’ “Black Cat,” instrumentals.
NAME THAT ANIMAL TUNE: Los Lobos’ “Will The Wolf Survive.”
Kelly Tansy: Awesome interview with Jan Creamer! Animals in entertainment is steadi...
Roman Gottfried: Thanks for this interview with John. I wish people would become more ...
Duncan: Thanks so much for your note. I didn't realize the audio file had some...
NS: Hi Duncan, Can you post the link of the audio file?...
Bob Cook: I live in Montana and for years I lived very near a sled dog operation...