Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!)

Tracie Hotchner

DOG TALK® features Tracie Hotchner's interviews with authors, pet experts and animal welfare advocates from around the world, discussing practical and philosophical issues regarding our relationships with dogs, cats, other pets, wildlife and the natural world.

The show broadcasts from WLIW FM 88.3 in Southampton, the only NPR station on Long Island, reaching from the East End across Long Island into Southern Connecticut and Westchester.

The show’s theme song is “Mmm My Best Friend” by Sophie B. Hawkins from her album TIMBRE.

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Monday · 30 min
Giants of the Valley — 16 Irish Wolfhounds (and Counting!)
#1004A: Nick Trumble talks about his delightful film "Giants of the Valley," premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival, about a fabulously eccentric English family who own 16 Irish Wolfhounds, along with a number of other dogs, and the joy they take in their pack.
Monday · 30 min
The NYC Animal Care Centers Have Come a Long Way
#1004B: Katy Hansen of the NY ACC (the beneficiary of the NYC premiere of the NY Cat Film Festival Sept 26th) talks about all the great shelters the city has built (or is building) in the boroughs and how the many cat rescue groups flourish in their mission.
September 7 · 30 min
Older Pets Get Their Day at SeniorPetCon!
#1003A: Dr. Monica Tarantino, founder of the Senior Dog Veterinary Society, is putting on a day of virtual education and support to empower the parents of senior dogs and cats on September 12th and a deeper dive (with CE credits) for veterinarians on September 13th. Buy tickets at https://seniorpetcon.com/
September 7 · 28 min
Guardian Angels for Dogs Discarded in the Vegas Desert
#1003B: Filmmaker Francesco Valentinuzzi talks from Italy about why he made the documentary “Dumped,” to celebrate the unusual group of dog rescuers who save discarded and lost dogs in Las Vegas. It will be featured in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival premiering in NYC Sunday September 27th at the Village East theater.
August 31 · 29 min
The Canine Star of a Novel in Egyptian Tombs
#1002A: Brian Patrick Duggan talks about the historical background to his rollicking historical novel “Thunder in the Valley of the Queens,” with archaeologists and soldiers intersecting in Egypt during wartime — featuring a Saluki in a pivotal role.
August 31 · 30 min
The Dog Who Brings Barcelonians Together
#1002B: Barcelonian filmmaker Tora Meder Bird crafted a film about a dog bringing a community together in “Diego” (premiering in the 11th Annual NY Dog Film Festival September 27th in NYC) and says she had “love heart eyes” for Diego the minute she saw him.
August 24 · 28 min
Love in Their Hearts
#1001B: Ethologist Marc Bekoff's newest book, “Love in Their Hearts,” explores the emotional lives of many different animals and, while it is aimed at young adults, all humans can appreciate and learn from it.
August 24 · 30 min
The Secret to Conquering Cancer is to Prevent It
#1001A: Dr. Kendra Pope is an oncologist who also practices alternative medicine in helping pets and their people navigate cancer, with a special emphasis on how nutrition plays a part in maintaining a healthy immune system — especially a home-cooked diet balanced with IVI Blend.
August 17 · 29 min
Should Your Chubby Labrador Take Ozempic?
#1000A: Dr. Ernie Ward, whose own nonprofit the Association for the Prevention of Obesity in Pets has been raising awareness for decades about the harm to pets of being overweight, discusses the current interest in giving GLP-1 drugs to dogs and cats.
August 17 · 29 min
Animals Are More Than a Toaster
#1000B: Victoria Shroff KC (Kings Counsel) is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK, who practices and teaches animal law in British Columbia, Canada, where they have changed the law locally so that companion animals are now legally more than property.
August 10 · 29 min
Your Dog is Eavesdropping!
#999A: Dr. Shany Dror's research at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna has shown that the learning vocabulary of some extraordinary dogs who can learn the name of a vast number of different toys is like that of an 18-month-old toddler — plus they are good eavesdroppers and can learn the name of objects just from listening to two people talk!
August 10 · 31 min
The Magic Elixir: CBD Hemp Oil
#999B: Sue Adams (a licensed veterinary technician at Ellevet Sciences in Maine, who supports veterinarians and dog owners calling for guidance on the right product and dose-by-weight for mobility and anxiety issues) talks about the life-changing positive effect their CBD has had on Tracie's 11-year-old Weimaraner, Wanda — who now runs and plays like someone half her age.
August 3 · 30 min
How Animals Shape the Human Mind
#998A: Michael Bond's book “Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind” looks at the earliest depictions of the way animals affect human thinking in the cave paintings of Southern France, trying to understand Ice Age people through "visual paleo-psychology."
August 3 · 30 min
The Human-Canine Bond Looks the Same Around the Globe
#998B: Dr. Juliane Brauer from the University of Jena in Germany led a team of researchers across every continent to study differences in relationships between people and their dogs — yet they found striking global universal similarities in that bond beyond our Western culture (countries which are academically referred to as “WEIRD” — Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic.)
July 27 · 32 min
Saying Goodbye to Beloved Senior Goldens
#997A: Peggy Frezon’s book of support and wisdom “Goodbye to a Good Dog: Healing, Comfort, and the Hope of Heaven After the Loss of Your Dog” comes from years of adopting senior citizen Golden Retrievers and learning how to accept the Rainbow Bridge awaiting them.
July 27 · 28 min
Freida the Chihuahua Eats Like a Queen (with IVI blend)
#997B: Jennifer Palencia — the Director of Operations at the Penn Club of New York — has a culinary degree from Johnson & Wales, skills she has put to good use home-cooking for her little Chi-Chi Freida, who now gets a truly balanced healthy diet with the addition of IVI blend, formulated by two veterinarians renowned for their nutrition wisdom, who support home cooking.
July 20 · 29 min
A Guide Dog Helped Her See Herself
#996A: Deni Elliott’s memoir “Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself” is a touching saga of someone losing her sight, fighting against it, then discovering how Guiding Eyes For the Blind dogs change their peoples’ lives on the inside and outside.
July 20 · 31 min
Treat the Joint, Not the Whole Dog!
#996B: Dr. Jennifer Fletcher Eckenrode, a canine rehabilitation veterinarian at her own Paws in Motion clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, discusses her extensive expertise in pain management and rehabilitation, in particular her firsthand experience treating her own dog, Murray, with Synovetin OA, which is supposed to give relief from joint pain for up to a year — and lasted 22 months on Murray!
July 13 · 29 min
A Book That Makes Maggots Seem Marvelous — Really!
#995A: Dr. Dino Martins speaks from Kenya about his book “Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites,” and his extraordinary life discovering these creatures and more around the world.
July 13 · 29 min
A Miracle Drug for Cats With HCM
#995B: Dr. Heather Davis explains how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was previously untreatable in cats until they developed Felycin®-CA1, the first weekly therapy developed for cats with this heart problem affects one-third of senior cats.

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