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Representative Jim Moran (Ret), Previous Chair, Congressional Animal Protection Caucus discusses Challenge of advancing humane animal policies in Congress; Current issues, including refunding of USDA inspection of horse slaughterhouses

Direct download: AnimalTalk_07102015_Jim_Moran.mp3
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International Court of Justice ruling on Japan’s defacto commercial whaling

Direct download: AnimalTalk_07032015.mp3
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Patrick Ramage, Whale Program Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare discusses moratorium on commercial whaling; International Whaling Commission; impact of International Court of Justice March 2014 ruling against Japan’s program of scientific whaling; consensus-making process in the IWC.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06272015.mp3
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Che Green, founder and Executive Director of Faunalytics, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to helping animals by providing useful information to advocates to help them increase their impact; role of information in advocacy.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06192015.mp3
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Hannah Padilla, Director of Behavior & Training and Ben Swan, Public Information Officer of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society discuss The Roddey Burdine Rehabilitation Center, a new rehabilitation program for needy animals at the Shelter

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06122015.mp3
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Matt Rice, Director of Investigations of Mercy for Animals discusses Walmart May 2015 adoption of “Five Freedoms”  as part of its animal welfare policy; impact on factory farming in US; impact on quality of life for animals on factory farms; process of identifying and implementing changes consistent with Five Freedoms.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06052015.mp3
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Dr. Simon Brockington, Executive Secretary of the International Whaling Commission, discusses International Whaling Commission origins and present day consensus-making process

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05292015.mp3
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Patrick Ramage, Whale Program Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare discusses moratorium on commercial whaling; International Whaling Commission; impact of International Court of Justice March 2014 ruling against Japan’s program of scientific whaling; consensus-making process in the IWC.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05222015_Patrick_Ramage.mp3
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Anne Baker discusses two decades of experience as a foster to needy animals from the Espanola Valley Humane Society shelter; the healing process for animals; support fosters receive from the ESHS; the joy of fostering

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05152015.mp3
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Chris Heyde, Deputy Director of Government and Legal Affairs of the Animal Welfare Institute, discusses the Safeguard American Food Exports Act 2015; horse slaughter process; exports of horses to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada; alternatives that provide care for unwanted or abandoned horses.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05082015.mp3
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Dr. Kelli Heckman, Executive Director of the Global Federation of Sanctuaries, discusses GFAS certification standards for animal sanctuaries; lack of regulation of sanctuaries in the United States; origins of wildlife in sanctuary.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05012015.mp3
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Dr. Gay Bradshaw, Director of The Kerulos Center, discusses trauma in elephants and the study of sentience in other mammals.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04242015.mp3
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Stephanie DeYoung, Director of Elephant Husbandry at The Elephant Sanctuary discusses the psychological needs and healing process of elephants once held in captivity (e.g., circuses); animal-first standards and practices of the Sanctuary.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04172015.mp3
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Ryan Wulff, Deputy United States Commissioner, International Whaling Commission talks about Creating Sanctuary for Whales in South Atlantic

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04032015.mp3
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Journalist Joseph Sorrentino discusses the December 2014 article in Santa Fe Reporter; undercover recording of animal cruelty at NM dairy; factory farming

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03272015.mp3
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Horse racing industry investigation, continued

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03202015_Patrick_Batuello.mp3
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Doping in American horse racing

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03132015_Sid_Gufstason.mp3
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Hetti Brown, Administrator of Delaware's state-funded spay/neuter program, talks about how other states have created a state-funded spay/neuter program to address animal overpopulation and high euthanasia rates; reductions in intake to shelters as a result of expanded access to spay/neuter resources; financial savings to counties

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03062015_Hetti_Brown.mp3
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Today we learn about House bill 415 and its significance with Representative Carl Trujillo of Santa Fe County and with Leslie King, Program Manager of Animal Protection New Mexico and Animal Protection Voters.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02272015_House_Bill.mp3
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First in month long series about horse racing industry. Catastrophic breakdowns and euthanasia

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02202015.mp3
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Direct download: AnimalTalk_02132015.mp3
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Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto and Ennio Garcia-Miera, Legislative Director, Animal Protection of New Mexico talks about important animal bills to watch for in the 2015 session; Senator Ivey-Soto sponsoring of bill to move Animal Sheltering Board to NM Department of Environment.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02062015_Daniel_Ivey-Soto_Ennio_Garcia-Miera.mp3
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Animal Protection of New Mexico's Phil Carter discusses a bill to end current law requiring homeless horses under NM Livestock Board management be auctioned to highest bidder; proposed bill to help licensed horse shelters offer homeless horses permanent home.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02062015_Phil_Carter.mp3
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Peter Marsh, Expert on Addressing Companion Animal Overpopulation, discusses animal overpopulation in New Mexico; states' spay/neuter programs; creating a state spay/neuter program.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01302015_Peter_Marsh.mp3
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Senator Mark Moores and Representative Jeff Steinborn discuss a 2015 bipartisan legislation jointly sponsored to end animal killing contests in New Mexico

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01232015_Moores_and_Steinborn.mp3
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Animal Protection of New Mexico's Phil Carter discusses a bill to end current law requiring homeless horses under NM Livestock Board management be auctioned to highest bidder; proposed bill to help licensed horse shelters offer homeless horses permanent home

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01162015_Phil_Carter.mp3
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Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto and Ennio Garcia-Miera, Legislative Director, Animal Protection of New Mexico talks about important animal bills to watch for in the 2015 session; Senator Ivey-Soto sponsoring of bill to move Animal Sheltering Board to NM Department of Environment.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01162015_Daniel_Ivey-Soto_Ennio_Garcia-Miera.mp3
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Peter Marsh, Director, Solutions to Overpopulation of Pets (New Hampshire) talks about a State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01092014_Peter_Marsh.mp3
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Hetti Brown, Administrator of Delaware's state-funded spay/neuter program, talks about how other states have created a state-funded spay/neuter program to address animal overpopulation and high euthanasia rates; reductions in intake to shelters as a result of expanded access to spay/neuter resources; financial savings to counties

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01022014.mp3
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Ole-David Stenseth, Director, Department for Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Norwegian Ministry Of Trade, Industry and Fisheries discusses International Whaling Commission; IWC moratorium on commercial whaling and Norway's decision to continue commercial whaling; March 2014 International Court of Justice ruling against Japan in Australia v. Japan case and scientific whaling; whales as cognitively complex and IWC study of whale cognition; international consensus making.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12192014.mp3
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Else Poulsen, Bear Biologist and Author of "Bärle's Story: One Polar Bear's Amazing Recovery from Life as a Circus Act" talks about Wildlife trafficking, polar bears, wildlife as commodity in entertainment, sentience in polar bears.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12122014_Else_Poulson.mp3
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Rae Sikora discusses Compassionate Holiday Food Choices

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12052014_Rae_Sikora.mp3
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Ennio Garcia-Miera, Legislative Director, Animal Protection of New Mexico talks about Legislative Priorities for 2015 Legislative Session

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11282014_Ennio_Garcia-Miera.mp3
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New Mexico overpopulation of unwanted animals. Making spay/neuter services more available

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11212014.mp3
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Migration of Sand Hill Cranes to Bosque

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11142014.mp3
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Ken Shapiro, Co-founder, Animals & Society Institute discusses an approach to studying and advancing compassionate change in the human relationship to other species; animals and society.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11072014_Ken_Shapiro.mp3
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Phil Kline, Senior Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace talks about Commercial Whaling, March 2014 International Court of Justice Opinion; International Whaling Commission Regulation of "Scientific" Whaling

Direct download: AnimalTalk_10312014.mp3
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A replay from October 3, 2014

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Today's episode was a replay from October 3, 2014

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Ongoing conversation about New Mexico’s overpopulation of reproductive animals

Direct download: AnimalTalk_10102014.mp3
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Rae Sikora, Co-founder of the Institute for Humane Education, Vegfund, and Plant Peace Daily talks about Compassionate Consumerism

Direct download: AnimalTalk_10032014_Rae_Sikora.mp3
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Socorro County Commissioner Martha Salas and Deputy Sheriff Ed Sweeney discuss Animal Overpopulation in Socorro County; State Spay/Neuter Fund

Direct download: AnimalTalk_09262014.mp3
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Film Director Mark Devries talks about  "Speciesism: The Movie", a documentary film exploring the concept and practice of speciesism, the assignment of value to beings on the basis of species membership. 

Direct download: AnimalTalk_09192014_Mark_Devries.mp3
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Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Gary King discusses New Mexico's Overpopulation of Reproductively Intact Animals; Creating a State Fund to Increase Access and Affordability of Spay/Neuter Services for Companion Animals of Low-income New Mexicans

Direct download: AnimalTalk_09122014_Gary_King.mp3
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Tammy Fiebelkorn, Chairperson of Forming Positive Links Committee, talks about the link between Animal Cruelty and Domestic Violence and Upcoming Annual Conference in New Mexico on the Link

Direct download: AnimalTalk_09052014_Tammy_Fiebelkorn.mp3
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Animal law programs at UNM Law School

Direct download: AnimalTalk_08292014.mp3
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Cindy Yurth, Reporter, Navajo Times talks about "Rez dogs" on Navajo Nation and Needed Cooperation Between Navajo Tribal Government and County Governments to Have Successful Spay/Neuter Programs

Direct download: AnimalTalk_08222014.mp3
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Peggy Weigle, Executive Director, Animal Humane New Mexico discuses Humane New Mexico 2014 Conference Agenda, including Creating Federation of New Mexico Animal Advocacy Organizations

Direct download: AnimalTalk_8_15_2014.mp3
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Kevin Chase, Director of Operations, Beagle Freedom Project discusses Re-homing Beagles used for experimentation in research facilities

Direct download: AnimalTalk_08082014_Kevin_Chase.mp3
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Otero County Representative Yvette Herrell and Sheriff Benny House talk about Otero County’s problem with overpopulation of reproductively intact animals; Cost to county; Creating State Spay/Neuter Fund

Direct download: AnimalTalk_08012014.mp3
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Kathy Guillermo, Senior Vice President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals discusses Humane Cosmetics Act; animal testing by cosmetics industry; deception by certain companies claiming to be “cruelty free”

Direct download: AnimalTalk_07252014.mp3
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Vicky Murphy, Albuquerque Animal Control talks about Animal overpopulation, Creating State Spay/Neuter Fund

Direct download: AnimalTalk_07182014.mp3
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A replay from July 4, 2014

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Animal Overpopulation in Guadalupe County, Creating State Spay/Neuter Fund

Direct download: AnimalTalk_7_4_2014.mp3
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Guadalupe County Commissioner Vincent Cordova talks about Animal Overpopulation in Guadalupe County, Creating State Spay/Neuter Fund.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_07042014_Vincent_Cordova.mp3
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Pam Wiseman, Executive Director, New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence; and Daniel Abrams, Deputy Director, Animal Protection of New Mexico talk about Understanding the Link between Animal Cruelty and Domestic Violence

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06272014_Pam_Wiseman_Daniel_Abrams.mp3
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A replay from December 8, 2014

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Chris Green, Director of Legislative Affairs, and Animal Legal Defense Fund talks about a Tiger Living at a Louisiana Truckstop; Wildlife as Entertainment; Mom & Pop Operations and Captive Wildlife

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06132014_Chris_Green.mp3
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Representative Carl Trujillo, District 46, Santa Fe County discusses the State Funding Feasibility Study for Spay/Neuter of Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households, and Animal Homelessness.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_06062014.mp3
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Steve Wise talks about Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals and Litigation

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05302014.mp3
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Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO, The Humane Society of the United States joins in a discussion on "Big Picture" Issues in Animal Protection.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05232014_Wayne_Pacelle.mp3
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Laura Bonar of Animal Protection Voters talks about Fur Trapping on Public Lands.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05162014_Laura_Bonar.mp3
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Maureen O'Brien, Co-Founder, Woofaste Dog Cooperative, Ulla Pedersen, Director, Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary discuss Companion Animal Overpopulation in NM, State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05092014_Companion_Animal_Overpopulation.mp3
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NM Senator Tim Keller, Bernalillo County talks about State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05022014_Tim_Keller.mp3
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Phil Carter, Equine Campaign Manager, Animal Protection of New Mexico talks about Interventions to Prevent Horse Neglect in New Mexico, Commercial Horse Slaughter.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04252014.mp3
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Father Frank Mann, Roman Catholic Priest and Writer (Queens, New York) talks about A Spiritual Examination of the Human/Non-Human Relationship.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04182014.mp3
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Poets Judith Toler, Blaire Cooper and Jane Lipman share their Poetry about our relationship to other species (second of two recordings).

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04112014.mp3
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Kathy Guillermo, Senior Vice President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals talks about an Undercover investigation of trainers/jockey’s use of electric shocks on racehorses; doping in horseracing; horse death on the racetrack.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04042014.mp3
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Poets Janet Eigner, Linda Wittenberg, Elizabeth Raby share their Poetry about our relationship to other species (first of two recordings).

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03282014.mp3
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Donna Leschne, Director and Founder, Dew Paws Rescue talks about the State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households, Animal Homelessness.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03212014.mp3
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Rena DiStacio, Chair, New Mexico Animal Sheltering Board talks about the State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03072014_Rena_DiStacio.mp3
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Peter Marsh, Director, Solutions to Overpopulation of Pets (New Hampshire) talks about a State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02282014_Peter_Marsh.mp3
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Allie Phillips, Director, Center for the Prosecution of Animal Abuse of the National Association of District Attorneys (Washington DC) talks about Legal Prosecution of Animal Abuse

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02212014.mp3
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Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock, Director, Mesilla Valley Animal Shelter, NM; Stacy Voss, Director, Farmington Animal Shelter, NM discuss the State Funding Feasibility Study for Companion Animals of New Mexico’s Low Income Households, Animal Homelessness

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02142014.mp3
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Con Slobodchikoff, Professor Emeritus, Biology Department, Northern Arizona University talks about Animal Communication, Prairie Dog Communication

Direct download: AnimalTalk_02072014.mp3
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Lori Paras, Director, The Raptor Center talks about Raptors in New Mexico

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01312014.mp3
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Gary King, New Mexico Attorney General talks about Commercial Horse Slaughter

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01242014_Gary_King.mp3
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Ulla Pederson, Director, Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary (Santa Fe, NM) discusses Animal Rescue/Rescue of Elderly Animals.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01172014.mp3
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Kathryn Eagleston, Director, The Wildlife Center (Espanola, NM) talks about Wildlife Rehabilitation, Coexistence with Wildlife.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01102014.mp3
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Rabbi Marvin Schwab, Temple Beth Shalom; Rev. Larry Haslam, President, Baptist Convention of New Mexico; and Rev. Richard Murphy, St. Bede’s Episcopal Church have an Interfaith Discussion on human/non-human relationship.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01052014.mp3
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Anne Schmauss, Birder and Owner of Birds Unlimited, Santa Fe, NM talks about Birds in New Mexico.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12292013.mp3
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Tina Holguin, Director, Animal Welfare Coalition Animal Shelter, Las Vegas, NM discusses Animal Shelters in New Mexico – profile of rural shelters (AWC Animal Shelter in Las Vegas, NM)

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12222013.mp3
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Adele Douglas, CEO, Humane Farm Animal Care talks about “Humane” certifications of conditions on factory farms.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12152013.mp3
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Lyn Martin, Healing Hearts, and “Michelle”, Previous Inmate at New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility discuss Healing emotional trauma of incarcerated women, training, rehabilitation and homing of shelter dogs.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12082013.mp3
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Tamara Ward, LISW, Mental Health Therapist, talks about Psychological Counseling of People Convicted of Animal Abuse, Anicare Approach

Direct download: AnimalTalk_12012013.mp3
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Rick and Heather Dillender, Directors and Founders, A Fresh Perspective Dog Training, discuss Rehabilitating and Training Service Dogs, Mental Health and Physical Disabilities and Canine Assistance

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11162013.mp3
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Jennifer Rios, President of the Board of Directors, The Horse Shelter talks about Horse Abandonment and Neglect in New Mexico

Direct download: AnimalTalk_11022013.mp3
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