Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)

#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 otherwis...

#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...

#1007A: Philosophy professor Mike Dacey's book “Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds” examines the way some of the greatest "animal observers" may be misguided in their perspectives in looking at the "intelligence" and lived experience of non-human creatures. 

#1007B: Dr. Tracy Lord has her own holistic practice veterinary clinic that supports owners who want to lean into home-cooked diets as part of illness prevention and management of health. She cautions that people should use one of the balanced whole food diets like the ones offered on the IVI Blend website (privately owned by two veterinary nutritionists), along with the supplements they have blen...

#1006A: Dr. Deb Zoran Texas A&M director of VET (Veterinary Emergency Team) which she also teaches to 4th year veterinary students — also serves on the FEMA Incident Support Team as a DVM specialist supporting the working canines deployed to national disasters.

#1006B: K.T. Landon's “Abide” poetry collection won the 2025 Richard Snyder Prize and hearing her read from this collection of wonderfully, powerfully accessible poems will make it clear why she got that honor. 

#1005A: Margaret Mizushima's “Fighting Edge,” her 11th Timber Creek K-9 mystery, has Robo, the detection/apprehension dog, who is the star of the series, at the center of the action in this wonderfully complex set of mysteries.

#1005B: Mariclare Carey-Jones made the film “Pierre’s Tale” as a cautionary story of the terrible physical ailments the breed has as they have become so popular, hoping to spare others the pain and suffering her beloved Frenchie Pierre went through. 

#1004A: Nick Trumble talks about his delightful film "Giants of the Valley," premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival, about a fabulously eccentric English family who own 16 Irish Wolfhounds, along with a number of other dogs, and the joy they take in their pack.

#1004B: Katy Hansen of the NY ACC (the beneficiary of the NYC premiere of the NY Cat Film Festival Sept 26th) talks about all the great shelters the city has built (or is building) in the boroughs and how the many cat rescue groups flourish in their mission.

#1003A: Dr. Monica Tarantino, founder of the Senior Dog Veterinary Society, is putting on a day of virtual education and support to empower the parents of senior dogs and cats on September 12th and a deeper dive (with CE credits) for veterinarians on September 13th. Buy tickets at https://seniorpetcon.com/

#1003B: Filmmaker Francesco Valentinuzzi talks from Italy about why he made the documentary “Dumped,” to celebrate the unusual group of dog rescuers who save discarded and lost dogs in Las Vegas. It will be featured in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival premiering in NYC Sunday September 27th at the Village East theater.

#1002A: Brian Patrick Duggan talks about the historical background to his rollicking historical novel “Thunder in the Valley of the Queens,” with archaeologists and soldiers intersecting in Egypt during wartime — featuring a Saluki in a pivotal role.

#1002B: Barcelonian filmmaker Tora Meder Bird crafted a film about a dog bringing a community together in “Diego” (premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival September 27th in NYC) and says she had “love heart eyes” for Diego the minute she saw him. 

#1001B:  Ethologist Marc Bekoff's newest book, “Love in Their Hearts,” explores the emotional lives of many different animals and, while it is aimed at young adults, all humans can appreciate and learn from it.

#1001A: Dr. Kendra Pope is an oncologist who also practices alternative medicine in helping pets and their people navigate cancer, with a special emphasis on how nutrition plays a part in maintaining a healthy immune system — especially a home-cooked diet balanced with IVI Blend. 

#1000A: Dr. Ernie Ward, whose own nonprofit the Association for the Prevention of Obesity in Pets has been raising awareness for decades about the harm to pets of being overweight, discusses the current interest in giving GLP-1 drugs to dogs and cats. 

#1000B: Victoria Shroff KC (Kings Counsel) is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK, who practices and teaches animal law in British Columbia, Canada, where they have changed the law locally so that companion animals are now legally more than property.

#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 toddler — plus they are good eavesdroppers and can learn the name of objects just from listening to two people talk!

#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-changing positive effect their CBD has had on Tracie's 11-year-old Weimaraner, Wanda — who now runs and plays like someone half her age.

#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-psychology."

#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 that bond beyond our Western culture (countries which are academically referred to as “WEIRD” — Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic.)

#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 Bridge awaiting them.

#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 healthy diet with the addition of IVI blend, formulated by two veterinarians renowned for their nutrition wisdom, who support home cooking.

#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 inside and outside.