Maria's Mutts & Stuff

Maria chats with Traps To Laps Director Chiquita Taylor about this program which breaks the cycle of homeless cats and kittens.  TTL has a network of rescue groups, fosters, and volunteers who help get feral cats off the streets--especially kittens before they become feral--and then gets them ready for their forever home through fostering and socialization.

It's a new and unique program that could work in any town or city and Chiquita is happy to discuss how it can be done at [email protected].

And of course Traps To Laps  operates under S.A.V.E. Rescue Coalition which is a non-profit and survives on donations. 
If you can help:  saverescue.org
Click DONATE and write TRAPS TO LAPS.

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Maria chats with The Sultan of Garbage author Brian Belefant about how we can all do our part--even if it's small--to reduce waste in our everyday lives! Although fiction, the book shares four tips on how to reduce waste: repurpose materials (be creative!); create "free piles"; donate rather than throw away; think about your purchases.

To learn more about Brian, go to BELEFANT.COM.

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Maria chats with Certified Clinical Pet Nutritionist & Bow Wow Lab's Chief Nutrition Officer Johnna Devereaux about preventing your pet from choking! Did you know there are CPR classes for animals?
Listen and learn what to do and how to prevent your pet from choking.

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Maria chats with Will Zweigart, founder of Flatbush Cats and Flatbush Veterinary Clinic in Brooklyn NY.  Flatbush Cats focuses on solving the problem of cat overpopulation. Will has innovative ideas and solutions that will hopefully expand to all five boroughs in NYC and then be a model for other communities around the country.

Learn more at flatbushcats.org.

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Maria chats with Jim Kessler, Director of Instruction and Training at The Seeing Eye in Morristown NJ.
The Seeing Eye has been training and providing dogs to people since 1929, and celebrated their 95th Anniversary last year!

Give a listen and learn all about this amazing organization.

You can volunteer, donate, or other ways you can help:  SEEINGEYE.ORG.

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Maria chats with naturalist Charles Hood--a poet, essayist and photographer, about his latest book Nature At Night:  Discover The Hidden World That Comes Alive After Dark.

Charles takes us on a journey into the dark--as most of us are sleeping--and teaches us about the nocturnal world through descriptions and stunning photos. The night time awakens and we are there to observe it through Nature At Night!

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In-studio guests Kimberly Cassar and Adrienne Maglione from NYLABONE chat with Maria about Nylabone's 70th Anniversary and all that they're doing this year to celebrate!!

For every Nylabone bought, another is donated to a shelter! Their goal is to help get shelter pets across the country adopted; they're partnered with Best Friends Animal Society. Plus you can win prizes from Nylabone too.  

It's May and that means PET MONTH at Walmart and Best Friends Animal Society! Walmart is hosting on-site adoptions with BFAS this month. (Check your local Walmart for dates/times) 

Click HERE for Nylabone products!

Click HERE for NylaboneCares!

Click HERE for Walmart/BestFriends Info!

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Maria chats with returning guest Ornithologist and bird expert Andrew Farnsworth about Spring migration from south to north; how you can enjoy birds this time of year and what you should do if you find a bird that fell out of its nest!

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Maria chats with science writer and naturalist Ryan Mandelbaum about his book WILD NYC.
As Ryan says everyone thinks of New York City as a concrete jungle, but "it's full of amazing wildlife"!
Between the info, photos, amazing artwork by Chelsea Beck, and the chapter of Field Trips,
 YOUR next trip should be to New York City!

More info:  ryanmandelbaum.com

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Maria chats with Pawsitive Beginnings founder Nicole Navarro. In existence for five years, Pawsitive Beginnings gives permanent homes to foxes rescued from the fur trade. (Many come from fur farms where they're deemed "inadequate")

Btw 100% of donations go to the foxes! pawsitivebeginnings.org

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