Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)
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.
Episodes
930 episodes
How to (Easily) Home Cook a Balanced Diet for Your Dog
#992B: Tracie welcomes veterinarians Joe Wakshlag and Justin Shmalberg — renowned for their knowledge about nutrition and the company they created, Integrative Veterinary Innovations, that gives simple recipes to use with their IVI Blend to nat...
NPR’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 recollections of the animals who have shared his journey.
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 DABVP (Avian Practice), DABVP (Exotic Companion Mammal Practice) and DECZM (Small Mammal ...
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 own experience as a first time "puppy mama" during Covid.
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 returned with a new company, Rawz, after both their sons had devastating accidents, they decided to g...
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,” which gives a sweeping view of how closely the two species have been connected across time.
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 changes in tumors from 500 cats in five countries. Scientists found similarities in human breast...
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 which he is most well known, as he describes in his memoir “My Life With Wolves: How I Became ...
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 can accommodate gracefully to physical challenges.
Wolf + Human = DOG
#988A: Greger Larson, Director of the Paleogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network in the School of Archaeology at Oxford University, discusses recent discoveries about how much earlier humans lived alongside dogs, and how that changes ...
King the Wonder Dog
#987B: Eleanor Lerman’s short stories in “King the Wonder Dog - and Other Stories” include dogs in the lives of all her characters, who are grappling with isolation, ill health, old age, or just being human — and how these dogs are witnesses to...
Do Animals Have a Soul?
#987A: Clair Linzey, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre of Animal Ethics, and Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation, was raised by a chaplain father who was renowned for his work promoting animal ethics and our m...
The Unique Concierge Veterinarian Who is a Longevity Specialist
#986B: Dr Kevin Toman in California specializes in evidence-based solutions to pain and aging and helps people anywhere seeking those interventions — highly recommending Ellevet CBD and Rapamycin among other treatments.
A Novel From the Wolf’s Perspective Across Time
#986A: Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton has put his fertile imagination and historical knowledge to work in his newest book, “Wolf, Moon, Dog,” inventing scenarios from the wolf’s perspective throughout chapters in human history.
Oliver "The Wolf Guy" Shares Wisdom About Living With Dogs
#985B: Oliver Starr, known as "The Wolf Guy" to 300,000 followers actually shares a wolf habitat in Lake Tahoe with a pack that he and his wife have raised and live amongst. His book "The Wolf Lover’s Guide to Raising Dogs” sheds fascinating li...
One and Done — the Wonder Shot for Arthritis
#985A: Dr. Erin Troy who owns the Muller Animal Hospital in Walnut Creek, California, is a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner who shares her extraordinarily successful experiences using the one-time injection Synovetin OA — both personally ...
Limping Sheep, Horses With Ulcers
#984A: Dr. Sean Wensley in England talks about his book "Through a Vet's Eyes: How to Care for Animals and Treat Them Better," which describes the many ways people are unaware of suffering of the animals around them — and the ways we could avoi...
Dog Genetics Can Help People
#984B: Dr. Elaine Ostrander, a canine genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH, talks about the study of dog genes, her appreciation of Citizen Science and the international community of scientists studying how...
Pet Food Confusion for Owners in a Crowded Marketplace
#983B: Dr. Stephanie Clark, board-certified companion animal nutritionist, licensed animal technologist, and assistant director of special services at BSM Partners (which formulates and manufactures pet foods for companies seeking their experti...
The Sad Truth About Wolf Dogs as Pets
#983A: Lorin Lindner runs the Lockwood Animal Rescue center north of Los Angeles, where they are full to capacity with wolves and wolf dogs brought when people discover that they should never have been pets in the first place.
“Cat on a Hot Tin Woof”
#982A: Peter Abrahams (the real name of author Spencer Quinn) is back with another catchy title for his most recent Chet & Bernie K-9 mystery and explains how he's able to channel the interior voice of Chet the dog, from whose perspective a...
Shelters Should Not Be In Competition With Each Other!
#982B: Nev Fisher, Executive Director of the Coalition for Pet Progress in St Louis, discusses the importance of shelters working cooperatively — which often they do not, to their own detriment. Nev discusses how multiple shelters in one area a...
Can Goats Teach Us Anything About "Highly Sensitive" Dogs?
#981B: Dog trainer Ineke Vander Aa in Belgium wrote “Dogsitivity: A Guide to Living With Highly Sensitive Dogs” because she is what is technically called “highly sensitive” in people (which leads to her theory on why goats appeal to her so much...