Maria chats with returning guest Victoria Shaffer, CEO & Founder of Pup Culture Rescue.
Based in Pasadena, Pup Culture Rescue is a female-founded non-profit who has rescued and homed over 1300 dogs! 

They recently went through a challenge with distemper and parvo "the Pup-demic" as they call it, and can really use any help financially.

Click here to donate or volunteer, and follow Pup Culture Rescue on Instagram.

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Maria chats with Warrior Canine Connection's Mar Leifeld, Assistant Director of MBTR--Mission Based Trauma Recovery--programs.  They discuss how veterans with PTSD help train puppies to become service dogs for veterans who need one. Warrior Canine Connection says: "One dog can help more than 80 warriors" so give a listen and learn! (This is their third time on Maria's Mutts & Stuff!)

To find out how YOU can help CLICK HERE!

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Maria chats with Co-Director and Producer Vicki Topaz and Director MIchael Collins about their documentary By My Side; the story of three veterans suffering from PTSD and how their service dogs 
gave them back their life.  By My Side has been in 46 film festivals and has won 16 awards (with more to come I'm sure!)

To learn more about the film, bymyside.com

If you would like to host a screening of the documentary Click Here.

Click HERE to watch the film.

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Maria chats with returning guests Adrienne, Ursula and Jane to talk about Nylabone's 70th birthday!!
(Today's the day November 4th!)

They discuss 70 years of chew happiness; the CHEWS for Good campaign; their partnerships especially with Best Friends Animal Society; how you can donate a chew AND how you can win prizes and so much more!

Learn more at NYLABONE.COM!

CLICK HERE for Info on NYLABONECARES!

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Maria chats with global activist and journalist Nina Jackel, the founder of Lady Freethinker, the international non-profit animal protection organization. Their mission is to end pet abandonment; expose puppy mills; advocate for animal legislation and so much more!!

Learn more at LADYFREETHINKER.

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Maria chats with host and producer Gemma Smith about Catbaret Presents:  Meowloween, a one-night-only cat-themed variety show on Halloween (Friday 10/31) at Caveat (21A Clinton St in NYC)!

It's a variety show with comedy, music and burlesque! Wear a costume, there are prizes!

(Weruva is sponsoring the show and donating to RESCUE NYC.

For tickets:  catbaretshow.com.

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Maria chats with Wildlife SOS Executive Director Nikki Sharp about the 300,000+ animals they've saved; the elimination of "dancing bears" in India, the process of eliminating "begging elephants" and more!! 

Learn all about the organization, and you can make a donation too at WILDLIFESOS.ORG

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Maria chats with Explore.org's Naturalist (and former park ranger) Mike Fitz about Fat Bear Week (Chunk the Hunk is the winner!) which just ended, and all the cameras around the world that let us into the world of animals and nature. Explore.org brings us to places that most humans could never encounter. As Founder Charles Annenberg Weingarten said Explore.org is the "Netflix of Nature"!

Check them out...I do!   Explore.org

You'll be watching puppy cams and tiger cams and pasture cams just like I do daily!

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Maria chats with author Beth Evans about her first book Jake the Country Cat!
The book idea came to her in a dream, a very elaborate dream with a cat and Blake Shelton!
Beth is a huge advocate for animal rescue and black cats/dogs. And hopefully this is the first of a children's series.

You can find Jake the Country Cat wherever books are sold! And #adoptdontshop

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Maria chats with elementary school teacher (30 years as an educator!) and children's book author Lori Skala about her books The Road To Rosie and The Hair Tie. Proceeds from Lori's books go to animal rescue and pediatric cancer, her two passions.

Give a listen and learn about Lori and her mission.

Lori can be found on IG at storyloribooks or visit her website storyloribooks.com.

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