Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAn Explorer's Guide to the World’s Living Wonders
#927A: Cara Giaimo discusses her book “Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World’s Living Wonders” and how she managed to collect su…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Your Dog Happy? How Do You Know?
#926B: Emma Grigg — who is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, focused on Companion Animal Behavior and Comparative Biomedical Scien…
1 year, 2 months ago
Who Loves Cats More? Americans or the Japanese?
#926A: Kristyn Vitale (of www.maueyes.com, Cat Behavior, Science & Training) has been studying cat sociability — how much is influenced by how social…
1 year, 3 months ago
Furlanthropy Helps You Raise Money for Veterinary Costs
#926B: Adam Spencer explains how www.Furlanthropy.org is the first not-for-profit platform for crowd funding to help with veterinary costs, eliminati…
1 year, 3 months ago
"Itching to Love" from NPR Story Teller
#925A: Shelley Fraser Mickle's memoir “Itching to Love” explores why she and her dog developed such a deep bond.
1 year, 3 months ago
Darwin’s Dogs...and Cats
#925B: Elinor Karlsson (who holds the Chair in Biomedical Research Genomics and Computational Biology at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical Sch…
1 year, 3 months ago
Toxic Masculinity at the End of the Leash
#924A: Annie Phenix, author of “Positive Training for Aggressive and Reactive Dogs” discusses dangerous dogs bred for aggression, who are then encour…
1 year, 3 months ago
To Make Rescue Successful “Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak”
#924B: Michael Schneider founded and flies the plane for Pilots to the Rescue, flying dogs and cats to new homes, along with social media influencers…
1 year, 3 months ago
If Dogs Use Tools, Are They as Smart as Chimps?
#923A: Marc Bekoff talks about the many ways dogs can use tools to achieve their goals, not unlike chimpanzees studied by his colleague, Jane Goodall…
1 year, 3 months ago
Who Will Let the Dogs Out?
#923B: Cara Achterberg started a non-profit called “Who Will Let the Dogs Out” and has written a book of that title about the challenges facing anima…
1 year, 3 months ago