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Fur-Bearer Defenders Spokesperson, Adrian Nelson talks to us about cats and dogs ending up killed so they can line our coats and boots. What you can do to make sure you don’t accidentally buy dog and cat fur in your clothes and linings. Find out the SPCA sent an ex homicide investigator to follow the imported fur and trace it back to its source. The footage of these dog and cat farms was clandestinely made and you can now see it at the fur-bearer defender website. Think it isn’t true? Well even the officials have admitted to the BBC that cat and dog fur is traded and sold and farmed in some countries for export to North America. Find out the full story plus how certain animals like beavers and coyotes are considered pests and then trapped horribly by cities and towns.

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Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter, John Woestendiek, joined me to talk about his recently released book, Dog Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man’s Best Friend. His book illustrates the lengths that dog owners will go to duplicate their beloved animals. During the podcast, I talked with John about what prompted him to write about the dog cloning industry, how much the cloning process costs, and whether the results are what the pet owners expected.

Mike Hopcraft, The Reptile Guy, joins Deborah to talk about rescuing an alligator and a dangerous python and about owning reptiles as pets. How can you tell a bad store from a good one?

Mike explains how he reads alligator body language and how regulations have changed the way he does his rescue work. In warmer places like Florida, people should never let pet reptiles escape as they become invading species that do huge damage. Check out www.reptileguy.ca to ‘sponsor-a-reptile’ ; See stories with photos of rescued Caymans, turtles, snakes and dragons or ask Mike your reptile question. Deborah wants to know if your work demanded it, would you kiss a snake?

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New York Times bestselling author, Larry Levin, talked with me about his debut book, Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love. The story about Oogy illustrates how a dog, by given a second chance with people that love him, persevered to overcome the greatest of odds. Find out from Larry how he and his family met Oogy simply by chance. We also discussed what life has been like since the release of the book, what breed of dog Oogy really is, and what it was like to drive cross-country with Oogy to be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show.

Author and Legal Activist, Allie Phillips, joins us from her work in the Nation’s capital changing the world to make it safer for kids and animals. Allie wants you to know about pound seizure; the practice of selling animals lost, found and rescued into lab research programs and how you can make it stop. Her new book will enable you to become an activist for animals in every day ways like looking for the leaping bunny on products you buy and online by supporting efforts under way and in person too. In fact she even explains how you can train your own pet to provide therapy. Allie left a career as a lawyer often working with abused kids to set up programs for kids in the system to get the benefit of therapy animals present during their intake, examinations and interviews.

Noticing that abused families often stayed with abusers because of vulnerable pets, she created a program for integrating the family pet into family shelter programs. Allie tells us all about these great projects now underway and expanding to new areas all the time plus she tells you what she thinks of Michael Vick, a prominent dog abuser/killer and glorified football player. Deborah helps Allie get her message out by relating similar experiences in pet rescue and pound seizure in Canada. Together they explore these difficult topics so that you can see how things are improving and in easy ways join the efforts to make life better for kids and animals. Did you know that a man got sentenced 2 years for killing a goldfish. It makes sense to Deborah and Allie and they’ll tell you why.

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Veteran journalist and celebrity interviewer, Glenn Plaskin, is the author of Katie Up and Down the Hall. This is the true story of how his dog, Katie, turned five neighbors into a family. During this podcast, Glenn shared the real-life escapades that Katie had that brought him closer to his neighbors to create a family like no other. He also shared with us which celebrities he and Katie met and interviewed as well as what it’s been like since Katie’s passing with his new cocker spaniel, Lucy.

Deborah asks would you rather kiss your favorite celeb like Angelina Jolie or her husband Brad Pitt to welcome the New Year or your pets? Plus New Years resolutions your dog might write; cats wouldn’t bother because they think they are perfect already! Author and musician, writer and traveler, Greta Beigel joins us to talk about her book which shows us the Jewish holidays from a cat’s perspective. The book is done in gentle rhyme making it ideal for children ages 8+ to read themselves or read aloud to kids younger. Together Greta and Deborah discuss how Jewish pet owners pamper and spoil, overprotect and otherwise treat their pets like their own Jewish offspring. Are mice kosher? Do cats have cat mitzvahs? Do Jewish cats see the doctor more than non-Jewish cats?

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Award-winning, nationally syndicated humor columnist, Bruce Cameron, has written his first fictional novel, A Dog’s Purpose, which has become a New York Times bestseller. Being a best-selling author is not new to Bruce as he is also the author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter (which the television show of the same name featuring the late John Ritter was based on). During this podcast, we talked about his latest book, the one dog that had four incarnations within the story, the reason he was inspired to write the book and the screenplay he is co-writing for DreamWorks Studios to make A Dog’s Purpose into a movie. Without giving away the ending of the story, the dog does figure out his purpose in life.

Allen & Linda Anderson, the husband and wife team that have brought us numerous books on the animal-human connection, have done it again with their latest book, Dogs & the Women Who Love Them. This book shares with its readers the inspirational true stories that celebrate the companionship between the female-canine teams featured within its pages. In this podcast, the Andersons talked about why they wrote this book, how it felt to have this book listed in Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine, and what one of their favorite chapters was in the book. In addition, since I work with so many people that are going through the grieving process due to the loss of their beloved furry family members, I also briefly talked with the Andersons about their book, Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals. If you have ever experienced the loss of an animal in your family, this book is a "must read" in my opinion.

A stinky cat saves a family from fire and Deborah tells you the story plus what is a salty dog? Bring one along to this party with Charlie Crosby, pet disaster relief coordinator. Noahs’ Wish has only one mission and that’s to help pets during disasters. They go where people are fleeing and rescue pets from situations like Hurricane Katrina, The Okanagan Fires, and more. In fact they are always looking for new rescuers so if you are good with animals and adventurous, sign up for ther 2011 courses and get the skills you need to actually go where the disaster hit and save the animals instead of just watching it play out on TV. Charlie explains how Noah’s wish works to keep animals safe from disasters all over America and Canada and tells about her own experiences in the flood and fires. www.noahswish.org to see photos of dogs rescued at Katrina, information on the upcoming courses and what you need to know to keep your own animals safe when you obey an evacuation order.

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