Dog Talk Show #329: Marta Williams’ book, MY ANIMAL, MY SELF, adds a whole new dimension to how we perceive and experience our deep connection to our pets; Melanie Kahn (Senior Director of the Puppy Mill Campaign at the Humane Society of the United States) confirms allegations in the New York Times of an unholy alliance between puppy millers — mass producers of puppies of dubious genetic health born in horrendous circumstances — and the American Kennel Club, which claims to champion responsible breeders of quality show dogs; Southampton Shelter head trainer Aimee Sadler talks about the “Playing for Life” training event she is offering July 21st — an off-leash training session free to the public (but reservation required!) at the shelter on Flanders Road. By signing up at DogTalkTheRadioShow.com you will never miss a show, the podcast link will be delivered automatically into your inbox, ready for downloading.
Dog Talk #329 Tracie Hotchner (07-12-2013)
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I Want to Share a Feel Good Feeling!
I felt so good about watching a new video encouraging pet adoption that I wanted to spread the good cheer and urge you to take a look, too!
Halo Pet Foundation teamed up with the Ad Council, The Humane Society of the United States and Maddie’s Fund® to create an online video series called “Meet My Shelter Pet.” The videos are timed to coincide with National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. The one I saw features legendary music man and David Letterman band leader, Paul Shaffer, with his daughter Victoria showing off the lovable personalities of their four adopted dogs, Riley, Jake, Echo and Rue. And what a handsome and cheerful pack they are!
You really should give yourself a treats and watch these videos from The Shelter Pet Project — they make you smile and get tears in your eyes at the same time — you cannot believe that such wonderful animals were once discarded or even mistreated.
The videos showcase the special love that we have with pets we get from shelters. In this video, Paul Shaffer and his daughter do a great job of sharing their joy with the gorgeous, funny, happy dogs they were lucky enough to find from among the thousands of amazing shelter pets that are out there, ready for us to find them and give them their forever homes.
I feel pretty lucky myself — not just because I have three wonderful shelter dogs myself, but because I am a partner in education and outreach with both Halo Purely for Pets and with the Humane Society of the United States (their CEO, Wayne Pacelle, and I have a weekly podcast called “Humane Talk” on HSUS.org that will also soon be on my own Radio Pet Lady Network (RadioPetLady.com). The Halo Foundation supported this video series and I hope that when you shop online at Halopets.com, as I do, that you will consider throwing a few bucks in the “online jar” they have for donations for their charitable efforts — and every single dollar goes directly to those efforts, by the way.
Happy watching!
Tracie Hotchner
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Cat Crazy #1014 (11-18-2013)
Cat Crazy™ (11-18-2013) #1014: Shelter medicine specialist from UC Davis, Dr. Kate Hurley, and Jennifer from HSUS explain why we need to release kitties from shelters — “Let the cats out!
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Dog Talk #349 (11-30-2013): How Dogs Love Us; Wayne Pacelle (HSUS)
Dog Talk #349: Greg Berns talks about new ways to comprehend our canine’s emotions in his new book HOW DOGS LOVE US; Dr. Richard Joseph is the neurologist at the Animal Specialty Center and talks about what his work entails; Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, tells the tale of his two newly adopted pets, Lily, a Beagle from a local Washington D.C. shelter and Zoe, the gorgeous loving kitty who showed up on his doorstep soon after.
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Humane Talk #8002 (1/27/2014)
Humane Talk (1/27/2014) #8002: Tracie and Wayne talk about new federal legislation to crack down on puppy mills and discuss a rescued puppy mill dog recently adopted by a U.S. Congressman. In the 2nd half of the show, discussion turns to an important agreement between The HSUS and United Egg Producers to phase out barren battery cages and give egg-laying hens more space.
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Humane Talk #8005 (2-10-2014)
Humane Talk (2-10-2014) #8005: Great books about animals and a special project with dogs in a Louisiana prison. Some books we love that celebrate animals, including “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” “Alex and Me,” Wayne’s own book, “The Bond,” and a wide variety of fascinating reads; Hear the unique story of a new pet shelter inside the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana, which takes in homeless dogs and offers them for adoption — a project that helps inmates, pets, and the community.
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Humane Talk #8006 (2/17/2014)
Humane Talk (2/17/2014) #8006: Choosing Kindness over Commerce. Dr. Andrew Rowan, President and CEO of Humane Society International (HSI) and Chief International Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) joins Tracie to discuss the cycle of animal rights campaigns, going back to the successful campaign vs. Revlon in the 1980s to stop the Draize test of putting mascara into rabbits’ eyes.
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Humane Talk #8016 (5-05-2014)
Humane Talk (5-05-2014) #8016: Wayne tells Tracie about the Shelter Pet Project — a project of The HSUS, the Ad Council, and the pet foundation Maddie’s Fund — that promotes shelter adoptions through a national ad campaign; “Pets for Life” helps under-served communities in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia host free pet health clinics.
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Good Dogs! #6013 (6-09-2014)
Good Dogs! (6-09-2014) #6013: Gayle Watkins from Avidog, who has bred Golden Retrievers for 35 years, explains to Tracie why many responsible dog breeders have intense antipathy toward the Humane Society of the United States because there is collateral damage to good breeders from HSUS legislation intentioned to improve conditions and/or eliminate large scale puppy mill breeding operations.
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Humane Talk #8025 (6-16-2014)
Humane Talk (6-16-2014) #8025: Dr. Bill Folger is the founder of Memorial Cat Hospital in the Gulf Coast region near Houston, the only all feline practice in the world with four board certified feline specialists, of which there are fewer than 100 in the whole world. He talks about how the AVMA should be cooperative with HSUS, rather than perceiving it as a threat to their economic interests.
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Humane Talk #8024 (8-18-2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (8-18-2014) #8024: Paul Shapiro, the Vice President for Farm Animal Protection at the Humane Society of the United States, talks about how mainstream ideology has changed in the past 20 years and there has been a 10% drop in meat consumption — good news for a lifelong vegetarian/vegan like himself, who accepts that ”social progress is always incremental.”
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Humane Talk #8024 (10/13/2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (10/13/2014) #8024: Paul Shapiro, a lifelong vegan who is VP for Farm Animal Protection at HSUS discusses how social progress is always incremental and requires patience, but that mainstream ideology has changed in the past twenty years and meat consumption has actually dropped 20%.
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I Want to Share a Feel Good Feeling!
I felt so good about watching a new video encouraging pet adoption that I wanted to spread the good cheer and urge you to take a look, too!
Halo Pet Foundation teamed up with the Ad Council, The Humane Society of the United States and Maddie’s Fund® to create an online video series called “Meet My Shelter Pet.” The videos are timed to coincide with National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. The one I saw features legendary music man and David Letterman band leader, Paul Shaffer, with his daughter Victoria showing off the lovable personalities of their four adopted dogs, Riley, Jake, Echo and Rue. And what a handsome and cheerful pack they are!
You really should give yourself a treats and watch these videos from The Shelter Pet Project — they make you smile and get tears in your eyes at the same time — you cannot believe that such wonderful animals were once discarded or even mistreated.
The videos showcase the special love that we have with pets we get from shelters. In this video, Paul Shaffer and his daughter do a great job of sharing their joy with the gorgeous, funny, happy dogs they were lucky enough to find from among the thousands of amazing shelter pets that are out there, ready for us to find them and give them their forever homes.
I feel pretty lucky myself — not just because I have three wonderful shelter dogs myself, but because I am a partner in education and outreach with both Halo Purely for Pets and with the Humane Society of the United States (their CEO, Wayne Pacelle, and I have a weekly podcast called “Humane Talk” on HSUS.org that will also soon be on my own Radio Pet Lady Network (RadioPetLady.com). The Halo Foundation supported this video series and I hope that when you shop online at Halopets.com, as I do, that you will consider throwing a few bucks in the “online jar” they have for donations for their charitable efforts — and every single dollar goes directly to those efforts, by the way.
Happy watching!
Tracie Hotchner
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Humane Talk #8034 (11-10-2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (11-10-2014) #8034: Wayne talks dogs in the small Asian nation of Bhutan and an ongoing project where Humane Society International is helping street dogs and communities by sterilizing tens of thousands of free-roaming dogs; Tracie and Wayne discuss how competitive racing is a dangerous game for horses that leads to the injury and death of far too many horses, mentioning a series in the New York Times that brought more attention to the serious problems with injuries, drugs, and overbreeding in the industry. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/us/death-and-disarray-at-americas-racetracks.html?pagewanted=all...module=Search...mabReward=relbias%3Ar..._r=0]
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Humane Talk #8038 (11-24-2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (11-24-2014) #8038: Wayne explains how the HSUS works in cooperation with law enforcement officials to help rescue pets, crack down on animal fighting, and protect wildlife; find out how you can go to school for animals at Humane Society University, with classes online and in Washington, D.C. The university has a wide range of courses and offers undergraduate degrees, graduate certificates, and master’s degrees.
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Humane Talk #8039 (12-01-2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (12-01-2014) #8039: Wayne discusses how countless dogs in puppy mills are sold over the Internet with little oversight because of a legal loophole, and that the HSUS was working back in 2012 to require these establishments to meet basic standards of care; Wayne describes the dangers of people who keep dangerous wild animals in backyards and talks about a rescue of tigers, leopards, and other animals from an Oklahoma roadside zoo with poor conditions and safety risks.
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Humane Talk #8041 (12-15-2014)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (12-15-2014) #8041: Wayne talks about an HSUS undercover investigation at a Tennessee Walking Horse show barn, depicting horses having caustic chemicals applied to their legs as well as being whipped, kicked, and hit in the face. The public awareness and criminal indictments that followed were in 2012, when this interview was recorded; Tracie and Wayne discuss proper husbandry of parrots and other birds, in light of a rescue of more than 120 neglected parrots from a supposed sanctuary in Ohio. Though some types of birds make wonderful pets, parrots are intelligent, social, can live many decades, and need specialized care. More information about caring for parrots and other birds can be heard on EXOTIC PETS. (Interviews with Wayne Pacelle were conducted in 2012; more recent information is available at HSUS.org.)
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Humane Talk #8043 (01-19-2015)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (01-19-2015) #8043: Is that dog fur on the trim of your jacket? It is illegal to sell products containing domestic dog or cat fur in the United States, thanks to legislation supported by The HSUS more than a decade ago, but in 2012 their investigators found domestic dog fur for sale in the U.S.; Wayne focuses on major moments for the animal protection movement in recent years, like the undercover investigation of a dairy cow slaughter plant, and how people can seek out more humane food.
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Dog Talk #405 (01-24-2015)
Dog Talk (01-24-2015) #405: Dr E’Lise Christensen Bell, DVM DACVB, Board Certified Veterinary Behaviorist explains the escalation from growling to barking to snapping to nipping to biting and how when “The Tinies” do it, owners blow it off, but it’s still a serious warning that escalates; Mikita Brottman’s THE GREAT GRISBY: Two Thousand Years of Literary, Royal, Philosophical, and Artistic Dog Lovers and Their Exceptional Animals intersperses her love of her French Bulldog Grisby with facts like how many renowned authors have owned standard poodles (and how Norman Mailer got into a street brawl when someone called his poodle “a queer;” Do our dogs have souls? Did the pope actually say we’ll meet our dogs in heaven? Tracie discusses this with Christine Gutleben, Senior Director of the HSUS faith outreach program.
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Humane Talk #8044 (02-02-2015)
Humane Talk
Humane Talk (02-02-2015) #8044: Do you think about cruelty-free products? Was the shampoo you use tested on animals? Did your toothpaste or lipstick cause suffering for animals in labs? We’ve made great progress in phasing out animal tests for many products, but several companies have backslid on their cruelty-free pledges; Wayne talks about touring farms in rural America, and more about how HSUS works with farmers to phase out cruel confinement practices and work together to advance animal welfare. (Conversations recorded previously in 2012.)
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