Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)
DOG TALK® features Tracie Hotchner'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
944 episodes
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 dose-by-weight for mobility and anxiety issues) talks about the life-changi...
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 the name of a vast number of different toys is like that of an 18-month-old todd...
The Human-Canine Bond Looks the Same Around the Globe
#998B: Dr. Juliane Brauer from the University of Jena in Germany led a team of researchers across every continent to study differences in relationships between people and their dogs — yet they found striking global universal similarities in tha...
How Animals Shape the Human Mind
#998A: Michael Bond's book “Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind” looks at the earliest depictions of the way animals affect human thinking in the cave paintings of Southern France, trying to understand Ice Age people through "visual paleo...
Freida the Chihuahua Eats Like a Queen (with IVI blend)
#997B: Jennifer Palencia — the Director of Operations at the Penn Club of New York — has a culinary degree from Johnson & Wales, skills she has put to good use home-cooking for her little Chi-Chi Freida, who now gets a truly balanced health...
Saying Goodbye to Beloved Senior Goldens
#997A: Peggy Frezon’s book of support and wisdom “Goodbye to a Good Dog: Healing, Comfort, and the Hope of Heaven After the Loss of Your Dog” comes from years of adopting senior citizen Golden Retrievers and learning how to accept the Rainbow B...
Treat the Joint, Not the Whole Dog!
#996B: Dr. Jennifer Fletcher Eckenrode, a canine rehabilitation veterinarian at her own Paws in Motion clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, discusses her extensive expertise in pain management and rehabilitation, in particular her firsthand expe...
A Guide Dog Helped Her See Herself
#996A: Deni Elliott’s memoir “Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself” is a touching saga of someone losing her sight, fighting against it, then discovering how Guiding Eyes For the Blind dogs change their peoples’ lives on the ins...
A Miracle Drug for Cats With HCM
#995B: Dr. Heather Davis explains how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was previously untreatable in cats until they developed Felycin®-CA1, the first weekly therapy developed for cats with this heart problem affects one-third of senior cats.&...
A Book That Makes Maggots Seem Marvelous — Really!
#995A: Dr. Dino Martins speaks from Kenya about his book “Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites,” and his extraordinary life discovering these creatures and more around the wo...
Your Dog Does Not Have to Be in Pain
#994B: Dr. Erin Troy is a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner, who has many tools in her toolbox to lessen or even cure canine pain. The one-time Synovetin OA injection is her gold standard when it is appropriate for a dog with joint issues,...
Mary’s Turkey Gizzards Become Evermorsels
#994A: Hanna Mandelbaum, the co-founder and owner of Evermore frozen cooked dog food explains how special Mary’s turkey is and how they came up with a delicious, nutritious way to use the organ meats of the turkey they use to become Evermorsels...
The Summer Misery of Fireworks and Thunderstorms
#993B: Dr. Michelle Dulake discusses the holistic supplements she has created at Fera Pets to help your dog through the shivers and trembles of July fireworks and the thunder and lightning of summer storms.
“Misadventures of the World’s Okayest Dog Trainer”
#993A: Dog trainer Melissa McCue McGrath discusses her book “Misadventures of the World’s Okayest Dog Trainer,” which is intended to guide other dog trainers through sticky situations, but at the same time illuminates for the rest of us the var...
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.