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. Here on Creature Comforts, we like to have experts on to discuss what we know about our natural world here in Mississippi. However, there’s still man...

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. Schools are out, summer is here, and the coasts of Mississippi are ready to welcome visitors from across the state. While the waters fill with more p...

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, the doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Email the show:  anim...

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. Recently, many of Mississippi’s State Lakes have reopened after renovation. This coupled with the coming summer months means the lakes are primed for...

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. Terry Vandeventer is a local herpetologist here in Mississippi, and today he joins us to discuss one of his favorite classifications of animals: snak...

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 Mississippi population is well aware of our noisy neighbors that emerge periodically in the summer – the cicada. Every Mississippian is all too f...

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, the doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Email the show:  anim...

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 Rice's whales with marine biologist Christian Wagley from Healthy Gulf as he updates us on how the research of Rice's whale, a species of...

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" Smithson of Mississippi State University 's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and...

Today is an all pet day here on Creature Comforts. The doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Don’t hesitate to join the conversation live by phone or anytime by email. Also, if you have had any general wildlife experiences please share. As always, Dr. Troy Majure, DVM, with the  Animal Medical Center  and Libby Har...

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 any and all things water fowls with the Water Fowl Program Coordinator Houston Havens with Mississippi Wildlife , Fisheries, and Parks .Le...

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...

Today is an all pet day here on Creature Comforts. The doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Don’t hesitate to join the conversation live by phone or anytime by email. Also, if you have had any general wildlife experiences please share. As always, Dr. Troy Majure, DVM, with the  Animal Medical Center  and Libby Har...

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 more you listen to us here at MPB, the more you hear us emphasize Mississippi’s rich history. From music and food, to events and traditions, MPB is proud of the culture we experience within the...

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. An interesting distinction to be made about Mississippians’ relationships to wild turkeys is in the two different ways they’re viewed. The first, as a large game bird to be hunted. And second, as a...

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. Topic: Spaying & Neutering Guests: Email the show:  animals@mpbonline.org . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s show we welcome Dr. Frank Moore, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of Southern Mississippi . For over 30 years he, his students & other collaborators have studied the biology of migratory songbirds across North America, but most intensely along the northern coast of Gulf Mexico. Today we will talk about these migratory birds that visit Mississippi along their migration.&nb...

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, the doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Email the show:  anim...

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. A little over a month ago, Creature Comforts had a conversation about Urban Wildlife, which included the topic of deer – white-tailed deer specifically. They are dispersed all across the state in b...

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. Many of Mississippi’s wild animals are elusive. Some you never see and some you see very rarely. Our subject for today’s show, however, can be found daily in all parts of the state. They’re small,...

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 different types of animals, some that fly, some that swim, and some that creep along the ground. Those “creeping animals,” or reptiles and amphibians, are the subject fo...

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, the doors to the pet hospital are wide open. We welcome all your pet questions from the big to the small. Email the show:  anim...

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 re-air some old phone calls and emails from throughout 2023. We’ve talked about a lot of things this year, from the smallest ants underground up to the mighty Mississippi black bears. Tha...

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. When people bring up wildlife in Mississippi, naturally you think of animals that live in rural woodsy areas. Mississippi is of course, predominantly rural, but we do have our urban areas. So what...