Dog Talk ® (and Kitties Too!) Podcast
1) The Challenges of Prescription Drugs
#970B: Dr. Doug Mader explains the different ways that pet owners can fill prescriptions for and why they need to understand the value of backup support if their pet has side effects from a drug or ge...Show More
2) The Man Who Wanted to be a Hippopotamus (at age 3)
#970A: Jonathan Balcombe, a biologist and ethologist with a doctorate in animal behavior, has studied and written books about all manner of non-human creatures: “Pleasurable Kingdom,” “Second Nature,”...Show More
3) Sherri Franklin — Muttville’s Patron Saint
#969B: When Sherri Franklin first rescued old dogs from the San Francisco city shelter and brought them to her own home, nobody wanted senor dogs. Now, two decades later, she is stepping down as the l...Show More
4) Cat Mummies for Sale in Ancient Egypt
#969A: Greger Larson, Director of the Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network of the School of Archaeology at Oxford University, tells the amazing true history of how cats found their way in...Show More
5) Dr. Elsey’s New Year's Promise to Your Cats
#968A: Dr. Elsey started his company on behalf of cats, who cannot speak for themselves. He innovated litters to solve Out-of-Litter-Box problems and then created a revolutionary food called CleanProt...Show More
6) Free Living Dogs in India Deserve to LIVE
#968B: Sindhur Pangal in Bangalore India — anthrozoologist and author of "DOG KNOWS: Learning How to Learn From Dogs" — laments about the current crisis for the "streeties" — also called Free Living D...Show More
7) The Miraculous Transformation Wrought by Books in Prisons
#967A: Tracie shares her awe and admiration for Dwayne Betts, who, as a result of being incarcerated as a teenager, discovered the power of reading in prison. He came out to become a lawyer and a publ...Show More
8) You do Know Your Cat is Not Actually Your Baby, Right?!
#967B: Rebecca Van Laer's memoir “Cat” is a slim little book that speaks volumes about the life the author spent as a child feeling closer to cats than to humans and explores how her relationships wit...Show More
9) Early Spay/Neuter — What Would Happen if You Desexed Human Children Before Puberty?
#966B: Dr. Lisa Radosta, one of the rare board certified veterinary animal behaviorists, discusses the issue of early spay/neuter and how it affects both physical and emotional development — and what ...Show More
Early Spay/Neuter — What Would Happen if You Desexed Human Children Before Puberty?
29:48 | Dec 22nd, 2025
10) A New Way To Be Your Dog’s Best Friend
#966A: Katya Lidsky, author of “Be Your Dog’s Best Friend: the Benefits of Mutual Bonding and Relationship Building,” discusses what we can learn from our bond with dogs to improve our interactions wi...Show More