Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)
DOG TALK® (and Kitties, Too!) originated on the only NPR station on Long Island, WLIW-88.3, where it has been on the air for 13 years and numerous consecutive shows. This Gracie® Award-winning show (for “Best entertainment and information program on local public radio”), is produced and hosted by pet wellness advocate Tracie Hotchner. Each show features Tracie’s interviews with authors and pet experts from around the world, discussing far-ranging topics involving practical and philosophical issues regarding our relationships with dogs and cats.The show broadcasts from the East End and reaches all 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.Podcast also available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon podcasts, and Audible.
Episodes
830 episodes
Vasectomies on Peacocks
#942B: Dr. Don Harris was called in to reduce the explosive population of invasive peacocks in the Pinecrest neighborhood of Miami — because the birds are protected and even their nests cannot be disturbed. But you cannot neuter them or they lo...
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29:55
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
#942A: Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds calls his book "the little book that might just save democracy," because cats are intrinsically "little fluff balls of resistance." Tracie says this handbook of feline wisdom should remind us that if we do ...
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29:46
Underdogs — What Does That Actually Mean?
#941B: Andrew Rowan — President of Wellbeing International and renowned animal welfare advocate — talks about the book he facilitated, written by Arnold Arluke, called “Underdogs: Pets, People, and Poverty” which looks at free-roaming dogs in c...
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35:12
Supplements for Pets That Are the Real Deal
#941A: Tracie has long advocated for quality supplements for people and pets, so she was thrilled to have a conversation with Dr. Michelle Dulake, the veterinarian behind Fera Pets, a company dedicated only to the purposeful formulation of pet ...
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25:08
Dog “Owner” — Is a Rose Still a Rose By Any Other Name?
#940B: Vivian Zottola, author of “Being a Good Dog in a Human’s World,” discusses some of the philosophical aspects of having a dog and whether words make a difference when you use the phrase “owner” or “pet parent” instead of “guardian.”...
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29:23
Dogs Rescuing Teens from a Life of Crime
#940A: Joan Dalton's book “Second Chances” chronicles a program for youth in Oregon’s toughest juvenile detention facility, where they pull the least adoptable dogs from the local shelter and let these young men train them for adoption. Miracul...
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28:58
Foxes Saved from Becoming Fur Collars
#939B: Nicole Navarro — founder of Pawsitive Beginnings, located in Key Largo, Florida — describes her sanctuary for foxes rescued from the fur trade, partners with organizations like the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter, using the foxes’ storie...
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29:33
How to See Bats in the Dark
#939A: Charles Hood, the naturalist photographer, talks about his full-of-surprises book “Nature at Night: Discover the Hidden World That Comes Alive After Dark,” and how you can turn your cell phone into a bat detector.
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29:26
Thirteen Bully Breed Rescued Dogs in Her "Scratch & Dent” Pack
#938B: Tracy Kinney in Batavia Illinois says if she were a canine she’d be a bully type dog — meanwhile she has trained 9 of her 13 rescued Bullies to be registered therapy dogs (English Bull Dog, Pit bull, Boxer, French Bulldogs, Pug, Stafford...
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28:12
Purple Leash Project — Keeping Women, Children & Pets Safe
#938A: Lorie Westhoff from Purina’s Purple Leash Project talks about their partnership with Red Rover, the non-profit that is working to have more pet-friendly domestic violence shelters able to accept pets, since not being able to take the fam...
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28:14
A Growl is a Wonderful Noise!
#937B: British dog trainer Mark Bridger-Prescott — the owner of Bone Canis and canine behaviourist with a degree-level qualification in Advanced Canine Behaviour — says the problem with aggressive dogs begins with people ignoring signs of a dog...
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29:03
The Jane Goodall of Hares
#937A: Chloe Dalton's illuminating and luminous memoir "Raising Hare,” describes with poetic delicacy the powerful yet fragile bond she had caring for a wild hare, which became "semi-domesticated" of her own volition.
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29:13
A Ray of Hope About the Plastics Polluting Nature
#936B: Aditya Siroya explains how rePurpose Global has funded projects across Asia, South America and Africa to recover 30 million pounds of plastic waste from nature, while supporting more than 2,000 Waste Workers at the front lines. And what ...
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28:31
The Naturalist Author Who First Showed Us That Octopuses Have Souls
#936A: Sy Montgomery’s ground-breaking, award-winning book “Soul of an Octopus” is even more relevant now than when it was first published, as we discover that everything depicted in the bestselling novel called “that octopus book” (“Remarkably...
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29:09
Bearing Witness to How Animals Enter Our Food Supply
#935B: Investigative journalist Gail Eisnitz talks about her new memoir “Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator's Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival,” which is an expose of how inhumanely animals are slaughtered and the health conse...
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29:15
It’s Not Your Lab’s Fault (or Yours!) That He’s Fat!
#935A: Dr. Eleanor Raffan [Assistant Professor in Systems Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge] has made a breakthrough discovery of the gene in Labrador Retrievers that makes t...
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31:14
Octopuses and Other Animals with Magnificent Minds
#934B: Christina Couch wrote “Innovative Octopuses, Half-Brained Birds, and More Animals With Magnificent Minds” for MIT Kids Press, specifically for geeky kids like she says she once was herself — although curious adults will equally love lear...
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30:37
Unbelievable! A Pet Food Company That Gives Away Every Penny of Their Profits?!
#934A: Janet Scott explains how she and her husband, Jim, founded the renowned pet food company Wellness, which they had to walk away from, but were able to re-emerge with a new super premium high meat pet food — RAWZ — which astoundingly gives...
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28:45
Guess What? You're Actually Clueless About What Your Dog is Feeling!
#933B: Holly Molinaro talks about having just received her PhD from Arizona State University, at the Canine Science Collaboratory, where she studied dog owners’ perception (and misperception) of dog feelings and body language.
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28:39
Losing His Dog Broke His Heart
#933A: Renowned New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss talks about his book “You Can Never Die - a Graphic Memoir,” which celebrates his 17-year love of his dog Penny — often-depicted in his drawings — discussing his deep grief over her death in the...
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29:25
Do Free-roaming Dogs Have a Better Life?
#932B: Harry Eckman, internationally known animal welfare advocate, discusses population control of dogs and acts worldwide to protect them and the people they live amongst.
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28:58
A Gratitude Journal for You & Your Dog
#932A: Kyra Sundance’s updated book “The Dog Tricks & Training Workbook: a Step-by-Step Interactive Curriculum to Engage, Challenge and Bond with Your Dog” shows us all the things we could do for fun with our dogs, as well as point out all ...
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29:00
Words Matter: Don’t Just Tell Someone Their Pet is “Fat”!
#931B: Dr. Ernie Ward’s own non-profit — the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) discusses the importance of using non-shaming vocabulary when speaking about overweight pets; and that veterinarians unconsciously have a bias (as ...
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