Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNPR’S Scott Simon: A Lifetime of Animal Love
#992A: Scott Simon’s charming memoir “Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known” looks back at his life with a succession of funny and tender rec…
2 hours ago
How to (Easily) Home Cook a Balanced Diet for Your Dog
#992B: Tracie welcomes veterinarians Joe Wakshlag and Justin Schmalberg — renowned for their knowledge about nutrition and the company they created, …
2 hours ago
The Dog Park as Social Microcosm
#991A: Camille Perri talks about her new novel, “Social Animals,” and what she discovered about the people and their pooches in dog parks through her…
1 week ago
Unconventional Pets Are Her Specialty
#991B: Dr. Angela Lennox has so many letters after her name they barely fit on a page! She is triple board certified — in addition to her DVM she has…
1 week ago
Dogs in Art Throughout History
#990A: Thomas W. Laqueur talks about how he gathered the magnificent images of dogs in art in his beautiful book “The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History,” …
2 weeks ago
What Exactly is “Air Dried” Pet Food?
#990B: Janet Scott discusses how she and her husband Jim founded the pet food industry’s first truly “natural” food decades ago — so when they return…
2 weeks ago
The Alpha Wolf Watcher
#989A: Rick McIntyre talks about a lifetime of being the most prolific watcher of wildlife in National Parks — from grizzlies to moose to wolves, for…
3 weeks ago
Feline Mammary Cancer Helping Human Breast Cancer
#989B: Dr. Maggie Placer, the Science Program Manager for EveryCat Health Foundation, discusses how their nonprofit financed a study of the genetic c…
3 weeks ago
Wolf + Human = DOG
#988A: Greger Larson, Director of the Paleogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network in the School of Archaeology at Oxford University, discusses r…
4 weeks ago
The Deaf, the Lame, and the Blind
#988B: Hannah Palcic adopts special needs dogs and makes it seem not all that difficult, relating it to being a type I diabetic herself and how you c…
4 weeks ago