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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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How a Vet in Crisis Was Saved by the Homeless & Their Pets
#822A: Dr Kwane Stewart created Project Street Vet [eventually backed by Fetch by the Dodo] when he was at a personal low, euthanizing dozens of pets every day at a municipal shelter. Now he tends to the needs of the people living on the streets in Los Angeles — and their pets — and is inspiring other veterinarians to follow his lead and become Project Street Vet doctors themselves.
Helping the Homeless Even Before She Became a Vet
#822B: As a young student, Kristin Schmidt used to bring food to people living in Philadelphia alleyways. So it was only natural that once she became a veterinarian in Georgia, Dr. Kristin would minister to the needs of the pets of the unhomed population as a Project Street Vet in Atlanta with her husband by her side.
Veterinarian to Those That Slither & Fly
#821B: Dr. Doug Mader wrote the surprising story of how he started out as a vet by opening a clinic in a dodgy neighborhood in “The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital” — as an exotic pet specialist, with the rollicking tales of his challenging patients, the human as well as animal ones!
Peter Pan to the Rescue from Fairfax VA to Earthquake in Turkey
#821A: After the Turkish earthquake, Matt Cox [Battalion Chief of the Fairfax (VA) Fire Department & Canine Specialist] was deployed with his brilliant Labrador Peter Pan to help with Search & Rescue in Turkey. Matt explains the very specific talents of his dog Peter Pan — a “live find” “concrete specialist” in “confined spaces” — and describes the process of how he and the team of 80 Americans got to Turkey and spent two weeks helping in the rescue effort.
The Other Family Doctor
#820C: Dr. Karen Fine talks about her poignant memoir, “The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality.”
Earth Animal is Everything a B-Corp Should Be
#820B: Stephanie Volo, the Chief Impact Officer at Earth Animal, explains what it means for her company to become certified as a B Corp and “use business as a force for good, benefiting all.”
Robo the Tracking Dog Returns
#820A: Margaret Mizushima’s newest Timber Creek K-9 mystery “Standing Dead” has plot twists and turns you won’t expect as it celebrates the relationship between working dog and handler.
NIH Funded the University of Iowa to Feed Dogs to Sand Flies
#819C: Justin Goodman of the Whitecoat Waste Project reveals yet another grotesque, cruel and unnecessary NIH-funded animal experiment in which the University of Iowa was a partner. They attached plastic cups filled with biting sand flies to the ears and flanks of abandoned hounds — essentially feeding the dogs to flies — then killed the dogs as part of the experiment. Some of the experimentation was farmed out to Tunisia — a common NIH dodge of US animal protection laws being to ship overseas what would be illegal with US animal protection laws.
The British Declared Wellbeing as a Right for All Animals
#819B: Zazie Todd (author of “PURR” and “WAG”) explains the Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness which was published in the UK in 2012. It applies the concept to all animals that they have emotions, awareness of their surroundings and need to have positive experiences. Tracie asks how the US could be so far behind in acknowledging animal sentience and incorporating animal welfare as a component of basic moral decency.
Black Veterinarian Owns 3 Clinics in Atlanta
#819A: Dr. Charles McMillan owns not just one but three GoodVets clinics in Atlanta. He talks about the advantages (in an almost 50% Black city) of offering veterinary care in neighborhoods where his clients live, he looks like them, and they feel valued and welcome.