Talking Animals Podcasts on Florida Blog

Search Podcasts:

RaeAnna Saks, The Little Cats Rescue Founder

Talking Animals

RaeAnna Saks--founder and CEO of The Little Cats (TLC) Rescue, an organization serving the greater Tampa area whose efforts are chiefly devoted to rescuing the homeless/feral cat population--discusses the history of TLC Rescue alongside some of her own history, provides something of a tutorial about feral cats (and what differentiates them from homeless cats), addresses the number of cat that TLC Rescue spays/neuters and adopts each year, describes its sanctuary in New Port Richey where its flock of felines reside (and her hope over time for a bigger and better facility to accommodate these cats), how the operation's efforts are financed, and more. read less

Download this podcast

Latest Episodes for this Channel

RaeAnna Saks, The Little Cats Rescue Founder

Wed December 10 2008

RaeAnna Saks--founder and CEO of The Little Cats (TLC) Rescue, an organization serving the greater Tampa area whose efforts are chiefly devoted to res... read more

Captain Paul Watson, Animal Activist Extraordinaire

Wed December 03 2008

Captain Paul Watson--a co-founder of Greenpeace who went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977, his lifelong activism as a defende... read more

Captain Paul Watson--a co-founder of Greenpeace who went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977, his lifelong activism as a defender of all creatures of the sea has been recognized globally; for instance, Time magazine in 2000 named him one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century--discusses a bit of the history of Sea Shepherd and its anti-whaling campaigns primarily aimed over the years at the Japanese whaling fleet; "Whale Wars," the new Animal Planet series focussing on the efforts of Watson and company to thwart Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic seas; how a mutual admiration society between Watson and Peter Garrett, former Midnight Oil frontman, now Australian Environmental Minister, had turned contentious over the whaling issue; how volunteering for Sea Shepherd works and the recent surge in prospective volunteers; and more. read less

Stacey O'brien, "Wesley The Owl" author

Wed November 12 2008

Stacey O'Brien--author of "Wesley The Owl: The Remarkable Love Story Of An Owl And His Girl" -- discusses some of the experiences that comprise her ex... read more

Stacey O'Brien--author of "Wesley The Owl: The Remarkable Love Story Of An Owl And His Girl" -- discusses some of the experiences that comprise her extraordinary and fascinating memoir about her nearly two decades raising and living with the titular barn owl, whom she met while a young assistant at the Caltech owl laboratory and Wesley was an owlet with a damaged wing, which would've prevented him from surviving in the wild. She addressed the unyielding challenge of providing mice for Wesley (seeing as Wesley displayed an unyielding appetite for mice, virtually the only thing barn owls eat), how Wesley came to view her as his mate (and how Wesley's attendant behavior proved to be somewhere between difficult and repellent when it came to human male suitors), how reacting to and disciplining Wesley contrasted sharply with the way one does those things when living with other animals, and more. read less

Sherry Silk, Humane Society Tampa Bay

Wed November 05 2008

Sherry Silk--Executive Director of the Humane Society of Tampa Bay--discusses the history and chief mission of the organization, the Fall Adoption Exp... read more

Sherry Silk--Executive Director of the Humane Society of Tampa Bay--discusses the history and chief mission of the organization, the Fall Adoption Expo slated for Nov. 15, HSTB's myriad efforts in the area of animal adoption (including MAC, a 32-foot Winnebago outfitted as a mobile adoption center), addresses the impact the economic crisis has had on the animal welfare community, introduces listen... read more

Jon Katz, author and dog expert

Wed October 22 2008

Jon Katz--author of 17 books, including six novels and 11 nonfiction books (among them, the New York Times bestseller "Dog Days"), most recently, "Izz... read more

Jon Katz--author of 17 books, including six novels and 11 nonfiction books (among them, the New York Times bestseller "Dog Days"), most recently, "Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs, An Unexpected Journey, and Me"--discusses various aspects of the work as hospice volunteers that he and the titular Izzy (an abandoned border collie Katz adopted) undertook, explains the emotionally-uplifting impact of this work on Katz while briefly commenting on his unrelated struggle with depression also chronicled in the new book, speaks about the black Labrador puppy named Lenore that also figures into the latest saga and the relevant issue of buying a dog from a breeder relative to rescuing/adopting, and more. read less