Creature Comforts

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Putting together the lives of prehistoric creatures is a puzzle, and like a puzzle, you have to have all the pieces to fully understand the whole pic...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. At MPB Think Radio, we’re all about bringing people together – something we have in common with the animal we’re discussing today. In the South, craw...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your ca...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. In Mississippi, we have several places for people to learn about and experience wildlife. From Museums to refuges, you can be educated on all sorts o...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Whether you’re fond of them or not, you probably find snakes fascinating. From slithering underground to high in the trees, they occupy a large fract...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. With the temperature slowly warming up and the storms hopefully subsiding, the weather is starting to become more friendly to our outdoors-y friends....

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today on the show, we’re joined by Gilbert Rose from Tara Wildlife. He wants to tell us about the Tara Lodge and the educational youth camps they off...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your ca...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. As we near the end of MPB Think Radio’s Volunteer Week, we’re joined by Katie Tupy from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Being the Educatio...

On Creature Comforts,  Marissa Vaughn steps in for the absent Kevin Farrell, and is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. After last week’s discussion about gopher tortoises who live in long leaf pine forests, we decided that this we...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The gopher tortoise is one of Mississippi’s oldest surviving species, but despite their perseverance and endurance, they do still need some intervent...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. For the past few Pet Days here on the show, we’ve been filling the time between your calls and emails by discussing some fun facts about nature and w...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today we discuss bird banding and how it's done throughout the spring season with returning guest Emma Rhodes , Co-Founder & Director of Conserva...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure, veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and Libby Hartfield retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today we discuss urban wildlife with Dr. Adam Rohnke and Katherine "Ann" Smithso n of Mississippi State University 's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, an...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Conservation biologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Tom Mann is joining us today. We have Tom on routinely to discuss the migration...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your ca...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Our guest for the day is the returning George Phillips , paleontology curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, who joins to update us on...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Have you ever been to a park or natural area in Mississippi and wondered, “How are these places so well-kept?” In 2022, the Mississippi legislat...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. On this, the day before Valentine’s Day, we want to talk about why we love both our pets and the animals we see around our homes and wildlife areas....

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, between your ca...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. On Creature Comforts today, we welcome Dr. Holley Muraco from Mississippi State University’s Coastal Research and Extension Center. She is an interna...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Early into the year with these cold temperatures, it’s hard to know what to expect from the wildlife in your backyard, especially with birds. Are you...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. It’s a new year, and Creature Comforts is ringing in 2025 by discussing the favorite birds of children and hunters alike: ducks and geese. Our guest...

On Creature Comforts,  Kevin Farrell  is joined by  Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the  Animal Medical Center in Jackson  and  Libby Hartfield  retired director of the  Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Mississippi is home to many flying creatures, and although we love talking about our birds, today we want to discuss a flying mammal: bats. Alison Mc...

On Creature Comforts, Kevin Farrell is joined by Dr. Troy Majure , veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center in Jackson and Libby Hartfield retired director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Today is an all-pet day here on Creature Comforts. So, we’ve propped the doors to the pet hospital wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Also, we have several...