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 Animal Wise Radio from February 5, 2012
Join Mike Fry and Beth Nelson for a super lineup of Animal Wise Radio guests today! First, we will share exciting news from the Just One Day campaign to make the USA no kill on June 11. We're so pleased to welcome Dr. Susan Shaw, a leading ocean advocate, doctor of public health, researcher, founder and Exec. Dir of the Marine Environmental Research Institute. She'll talk with us about MERIs wo...rk, including thoughts about recent ocean news, concerns about dolphin beachings, and what our role may be in changing the health of our oceans. Our super lineup continues with guest Bobby King, Policy Program Organizer with the Land Stewardship Project. He'll talk about how land use policies and politics are bubbling up. What do these policies have to do with how our food is produced and how our communities develop, and why should we care? Michael Mountain will share some of his thoughts about Betty White, and her support of the captivity industry, too. Download this episode here! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:21:12 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from January 29, 2012
Mike and Beth talk about some national no-kill news and views with Nathan Winograd of the No-Kill Advocacy Center. He's been traveling the country and keeping his ear to the ground as New Yorkers speak out, California politicians waffle, and Florida takes a first big step. We also meet with Alan Peters, Exec. Dir of Can-Do-Canines, an assistance dog organization that matches helping dogs to a vast array of special needs and clients. They continue to push the boundaries and expectations we have of helping dogs. Download this episode here! Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:21:12 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from January 22, 2012
Today Mike and Beth welcome one of our favorite guests, Tammy Thies, Exec. Dir of the Wildcat Sanctuary in Minnesota. We'll hear updates from the sanctuary, learn about how she engages interns and volunteers. And we'll also hear some of her thoughts about last year's sensational news of wild captive animals set loose in Ohio. Has anything changed as a result of that tragedy? We'll also enjoy ...hearing some thoughts from Michael Mountain, founder of Zoenature.org. In the second hour, we'll revisit a conversation we had with Aimee Sadler, Training and Behavior Program Director from Longmont Humane Society in Colorado. Her work challenges us to think that we can help more dogs become successful candidates for adoption. Download this episode here! Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:21:12 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from January 15, 2012
In Mike and Beth's first show of 2012, we're joined for an extended segment with Nathan Winograd of the No-Kill Advocacy Center. We'll cover the exciting new initiative called "Just One Day." What could happen if shelters across the country committed to just one day of full-on implementation of lifesaving programs? Hear more about the 2012 No-Kill Conference, and learn about a little cat named ...Jimmy whose untimely death is challenging the policies, practices and rhetoric of the Minneapolis & St. Paul area Animal Humane Society. We'll also stir up some dirt and some spring thoughts as we meet Diane Ott Whealy, Co-Founder and V.P. of Seed Savers Exchange. Their commitment and pledge to preserve and propagate heirloom seeds is spreading to farmers and gardeners everywhere. Hear more about the safe seed pledge and why you might want to take it! Download this episode here! Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:21:12 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from December 18, 2011
Join us on Animal Wise Radio for one of our favorite shows of the year! Nathan Winograd of the No-Kill Advocacy Center announces the "great meddlers" of 2011. Known more properly as the Henry Bergh Awards, these awards recognize some amazing folks who are changing how sheltering and animal welfare is done in our country, just as Henry Bergh did when the animal welfare movement began in the U.S. Mike and Beth are absolutely inspired by these leaders, and you will be inspired too. Please join in this end of year celebration. Download this episode here! Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:21:12 CST |
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Nathan Winograd UNLEASHED from December 18, 2011
Nathan announces the "winners" of the Phillis Wright awards. Phillis was a benchmark killer of animals in shelters. She made no appology for that. She was also a VP of HSUS. These so-called "awards" are given to leading killing appologists that keep killing in spite of readily available alternatives. Download this episode here! Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:00:00 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from December 11, 2011
Today on Animal Wise Radio, Mike and Beth invite Dr. Laurel Neme back to talk about her ongoing work as an author, lecturer and radio host of The Wildlife. Her passion for protecting our wild animals is coupled with a concern for people. How can we successfully live with wildlife? How do we create solutions and policies that can work for people and animals? We're also pleased to meet Dogs Natu...rally Magazine editor in chief, Dana Scott. She has a few ideas about your dog's health and how you can protect it. Those ideas may be different than you think. And Nathan Winograd of the No-Kill Advocacy Center muses about Austin Pets Alive winning a major cash award from the ASPCA, an organization that had recently singled out Austin no-kill advocates as radicals and extremists whose message must be quashed. Download this episode here! Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:21:12 CST |
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Nathan Winograd UNLEASHED from December 11, 2011
We discuss the seminal court case of Medlen vs. Strickland which held that an animal control shelter that "mistakenly" killed a family's dog must pay for sentimental damages. What does Medlen teach us about dogs and who our friends are? More importantly, how can we use Medlen to further the cause of animal shelter reform? Download this episode here! Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:00:00 CST |
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Animal Wise Radio from Decmber 4, 2011
Today on Animal Wise Radio, Mike and Beth meet with Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst with the Center for Food Safety. The food fight continues between industry giants like Monsanto, who are aggressively pushing for no regulation in the development and planting of genetically engineered foods. Bill will explain what science lies behind concerns about these new food crops, and why the fight goes... on. Tammy Thies will also join us to talk about winters at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Minnesota. She'll weigh in on recent news of captive exotics released by their owner in Ohio, and the tragic outcome. And don't miss Nathan Winograd of the No-Kill Advocacy Center as he muses about flash mobs. Animal Wise Radio is LIVE today at Noon Central. Download this episode here! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:21:12 CST |
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Nathan Winograd UNLEASHED from December 4, 2011
We discuss the blank check some people are willing to give the large national groups arguing that because "they do so much good," we should not criticize them even when they do terrible, life-ending things too. In the case of PETA, that means seek out and kill 2,000 animals a year, in the case of HSUS, it means defend abusive shelters and defeat legislation which would have ended the cruel gas chamber, and in the case of the ASPCA, it means work to allow 25,000 animals a year to be needlessly killed. Download this episode here! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:00:00 CST |