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by Tracie Hotchner
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.
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- 1 weeks ago29 min
75 Dog Breeds That Changed the World
#1011A: Tamsin Pickeral's book "The Invention of the Dog: 75 Breeds That Changed the World" gives a new perspective on how modern dog breeds resulted from a brief but intense period of selective breeding that began in the 1800s. She talks about how the dogs we now know and love came to be, from their beginnings in domestication across the world.
- 1 weeks ago29 min
How She Survived Living With Freddie
#1011B: Anna Heyward's memoir “Living With Freddie” describes in the most compassionate, kind, and patient terms what it's like to live with a dog with desperate separation anxiety — which certainly puts things in perspective for those with slightly clingy dogs.
- 2 weeks ago30 min
Meet the Doctor for Hurricane, the Famous Secret Service Dog
#1010B: Dr. Matt Brunke in Gaithersburg MD — who is board certified in veterinary sports medicine and in pain medicine — is rehab specialist for sports athletes, working dogs and aging dogs, often using the revolutionary joint injection Synovetin OA for long-lasting relief from arthritis. His most famous patient was Hurricane, the Secret Service dog who took down the intruder who breached the White House in 2014 when Barack Obama was President. The Belgian Malinois was medically retired from ...
- 2 weeks ago29 min
Where does RAWZ send 100% of their profits?
#1010A: One of the many service dog organizations to which RAWZ gives monetary support for training and placing service dogs is Patriot Service Dogs. Tracie was absolutely thrilled to be reunited with Brigadier General Scott Wiggins, who was featured with his magnificent dog Bear in one of the Service Dog Salute films in Tracie's NY Dog Film Festival. Bear came from Patriot Service Dogs and Scott talks about what the support from RAWZ means to an organization like Patriot Service Dogs and wha...
- 3 weeks ago30 min
The Woman Who Never Met an Animal She Wouldn't Rescue
#1009B: Michelle Lerner's memoir "A Series of Opinionated Animals" is a funny and touching testament to the limitless patience and generosity of one woman — and her husband — in a lifetime of giving a loving home to all manner of animals, with dogs being high on the list.
- 3 weeks ago30 min
Giving a Dog Time and Space to Reveal Himself
#1009A: Dog trainer Laurel Saville has unique ideas about how we need to respect and honor what our dogs experience of life actually is, not how we want it to be. Her book “How to Live With a Dog: Stories and Solutions for Humans With Dog Problems and Dogs With Human Problems” is filled with wisdom, kindness and profound solutions to situations with dogs that could be solved if only we could slow down... stop trying to control and manage... and let the dog show us who he actually is.
- 4 weeks ago30 min
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 in Bangalore, is a TEDx speaker and author of "Dog Knows." She recently published a peer-reviewed paper “The Open Palm Gesture in Human-Dog Communication,” which is her unique observation of how an open palm facing down towards a dog can calm, reassure and strengthen your bond with the dog.
- 4 weeks ago29 min
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 baffling book, "The Butterfly Season," which recounts how she got it in her head to try to find every one of the 64 species of Danish butterflies in one year... when she knew absolutely nothing about butterflies! An otherwise highly accomplished journalist, businesswoman and practical wife and mother, she is the embodiment o...
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About 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.
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