DOG TALK® (and Kitties Too!) on 
DOG TALK® features Tracie's interviews with authors, pet experts and animal welfare advocates from around the world, discussing practical and philosophical issues regarding our relationships with dogs, cats, other pets, wildlife and the natural world.
The show broadcasts from WLIW FM 88.3 in Southampton, the only NPR station on Long Island, reaching from the East End across Long Island into Southern Connecticut and Westchester.
The show’s theme song is “Mmm My Best Friend” by Sophie B. Hawkins from her album TIMBRE.
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Guess What? You're Actually Clueless About What Your Dog is Feeling!
#933B: Holly Molinaro talks about having just received her PhD from Arizona State University, at the Canine Science Collaboratory, where she studied dog owners’ perception (and misperception) of dog feelings and body language.
Losing His Dog Broke His Heart
#933A: Renowned New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss talks about his book “You Can Never Die - a Graphic Memoir,” which celebrates his 17-year love of his dog Penny — often-depicted in his drawings — discussing his deep grief over her death in the context of his complex, fascinating life, seen in magnificently drawn and hand-written journal entries in the book.
Do Free-roaming Dogs Have a Better Life?
#932B: Harry Eckman, internationally known animal welfare advocate, discusses population control of dogs and acts worldwide to protect them and the people they live amongst.
A Gratitude Journal for You & Your Dog
#932A: Kyra Sundance’s updated book “The Dog Tricks & Training Workbook: a Step-by-Step Interactive Curriculum to Engage, Challenge and Bond with Your Dog” shows us all the things we could do for fun with our dogs, as well as point out all we have to be grateful for.
Words Matter: Don’t Just Tell Someone Their Pet is “Fat”!
#931B: Dr. Ernie Ward’s own non-profit — the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) discusses the importance of using non-shaming vocabulary when speaking about overweight pets; and that veterinarians unconsciously have a bias (as do doctors in human medicine) towards patients that “have obesity” — which is a clinical condition requiring medical intervention.
The Horrors of the “American XL Bully Breed”
#931A: Annie Phenix (author of Positive Training for Reactive & Aggressive Dogs) discusses the horrible phenomenon in England of dogs with the moniker American XL Bully (a “breed’ not recognized as such in the U.S.), a type of dog which is now banned in the UK because of maulings of people by these massive powerful dog.
Brooklyn Kitty Plays Matchmaker to Humans
#930B: Tanya Guerrero (who now lives on a hillside outside Manila in a home constructed of shipping containers with her husband, their daughter and a clowder of cats) reads from her Brooklyn-based novel “Cat’s People,” the heroine of which is a stray cat who works to bring disconnected people together.
Fast-Track to a “Pet Shrink” for You & Your Pet
#930A: Brandy Kuentzel talks about her Ease Pet Vet (winner of an Innovation prize at the VMX veterinary conference) a platform that gives pet owners and their own veterinarians access to one of the hard-to-reach Board Certified Veterinary Behaviorist doctors to get a treatment plan for their dog's or cat’s behavior issues.
A British Look at Our Relationship With Dogs
#929B: Suzanne Rogers, co-director of the non-profit Human Behaviour Change for Animals, talks about the book she edited: "Canine Behaviour in Mind: Applying Behavioural Science to Our Lives with Dogs.”
The 1,000 Dogs Left Behind at Chernobyl
#929A: NYC cat behaviorist Stephen Quandt (Cat BehaviorHelp.com) talks about how he was part of a delegation many years ago to help manage and study the 1,000 dogs left behind when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986. What has become of them?