Elder and hospice care for previously homeless animals

Elder and hospice care for previously homeless animals

Passing anti-chaining ordinance in Santa Fe county

Guest:  Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Farm Animal Protection, Humane Society of the United States

Topic:  Massachusetts ballot initiative to advance protection of farmed animals from cruelty; prohibition of sale of meat, dairy and eggs in Massachusetts from animals living in confinement conditions that are cruel.

Representative Katherine Clark (D-Massachusetts) Sponsor of  Pets and Women Safety Act of 2015, a federal bill before Congress to create protections for family pets targeted in domestic violence.

Guest:  Iris Ho, Humane Society International

Topic: Washington Ballot Initiative; Combatting Wildlife Trafficking

Guest: Sasha Lezhnev is Associate Director of Policy, the Enough Project / Topic: Nature of wildlife trafficking today; markets for ivory and / transnational trafficking syndicates; President Obama's National / Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking

Guest:  Robert Dreher, Associate Director, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Topic: President Obama's National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking; challenges in implementing the Strategy in Africa

Guest: [Re-air] Lyle Muller, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism
Topic: Puppy Mills; failed efforts in Iowa to regulate puppy mills

Guest: Patricia Conoway, NM author
Topic: Book “Listening with My Eyes”; caring for abused horse and mother with Alzheimers; learning to communicate nonverbally; Patricia’s process of sensitization to nonverbal communication