Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)

The Butterfly Season — a Quixotic Danish Explorer

#1008B: Lea Korsgaard — an award-winning journalist and author, cofounder and editor in chief of the digital Danish newspaper, Zetland —  talks about her wonderfully baff

What Your Open Palm Can Mean to a Dog

#1008A: Sindhoor Pangal is a canine behavior consultant with a Master's in Anthrozoology from the University of Exeter. She researches India's free-living dogs

Are Scientists Looking at Animal Cognition the "Right" Way?

#1007A: Philosophy professor Mike Dacey's book “Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds” examines the way some of the greatest "animal observers" may be mis

Home Cooking is Great — But Only If You Balance the Ingredients

#1007B: Dr. Tracy Lord has her own holistic practice veterinary clinic that supports owners who want to lean into home-cooked diets as part of illness prevention and mana

Veterinary Experts Deployed for National Disasters

#1006A: Dr. Deb Zoran Texas A&M director of VET (Veterinary Emergency Team) which she also teaches to 4th year veterinary students — also serves on the FEMA Incident Supp

Poems To Make Your Heart Sing (some with dogs!)

#1006B: K.T. Landon's “Abide” poetry collection won the 2025 Richard Snyder Prize and hearing her read from this collection of wonderfully, powerfully accessible poe

Robo Stars Again in the Newest Timber Creek K-9 Mystery

#1005A: Margaret Mizushima's “Fighting Edge,” her 11th Timber Creek K-9 mystery, has Robo, the detection/apprehension dog, who is the star of the series, at the cent

Please Do NOT Get a Frenchie!

#1005B: Mariclare Carey-Jones made the film “Pierre’s Tale” as a cautionary story of the terrible physical ailments the breed has as they have become so popular, hoping t

Giants of the Valley — 16 Irish Wolfhounds (and Counting!)

#1004A: Nick Trumble talks about his delightful film "Giants of the Valley," premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival, about a fabulously eccentric English fami

The NYC Animal Care Centers Have Come a Long Way

#1004B: Katy Hansen of the NY ACC (the beneficiary of the NYC premiere of the NY Cat Film Festival Sept 26th) talks about all the great shelters the city has built (or is

Older Pets Get Their Day at SeniorPetCon!

#1003A: Dr. Monica Tarantino, founder of the Senior Dog Veterinary Society, is putting on a day of virtual education and support to empower the parents of senior dogs and

Guardian Angels for Dogs Discarded in the Vegas Desert

#1003B: Filmmaker Francesco Valentinuzzi talks from Italy about why he made the documentary “Dumped,” to celebrate the unusual group of dog rescuers who save discarded an

The Canine Star of a Novel in Egyptian Tombs

#1002A: Brian Patrick Duggan talks about the historical background to his rollicking historical novel “Thunder in the Valley of the Queens,” with archaeologists and soldi

The Dog Who Brings Barcelonians Together

#1002B: Barcelonian filmmaker Tora Meder Bird crafted a film about a dog bringing a community together in “Diego” (premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival Sept

Love in Their Hearts

#1001B:  Ethologist Marc Bekoff's newest book, “Love in Their Hearts,” explores the emotional lives of many different animals and, while it is aimed at young adults,

The Secret to Conquering Cancer is to Prevent It

#1001A: Dr. Kendra Pope is an oncologist who also practices alternative medicine in helping pets and their people navigate cancer, with a special emphasis on how nutritio

Should Your Chubby Labrador Take Ozempic?

#1000A: Dr. Ernie Ward, whose own nonprofit the Association for the Prevention of Obesity in Pets has been raising awareness for decades about the harm to pets of being o

Animals Are More Than a Toaster

#1000B: Victoria Shroff KC (Kings Counsel) is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK, who practices and teaches animal law in British Columb

Your Dog is Eavesdropping!

#999A: Dr. Shany Dror's research at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna has shown that the learning vocabulary of some extraordinary dogs who can learn t

The Magic Elixir: CBD Hemp Oil

#999B: Sue Adams (a licensed veterinary technician at Ellevet Sciences in Maine, who supports veterinarians and dog owners calling for guidance on the right product and d