DOG TALK® (and Kitties, Too!) originated on the only NPR station on Long Island, WLIW-88.3, where it has been on the air for 13 years and numerous consecutive shows. This Gracie® Award-winning show (for “Best entertainment and information program on local public radio”), is produced and hosted by pet wellness advocate Tracie Hotchner. Each show features Tracie’s interviews with authors and pet experts from around the world, discussing far-ranging topics involving practical and philosophical issues regarding our relationships with dogs and cats.
The show broadcasts from the East End and reaches all 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 
Cancer-Detecting Dogs
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (03-04-2017) #514: Abigail Tucker wrote THE LION IN THE LIVING ROOM: HOW HOUSE CATS TAMED US
AND TOOK OVER THE WORLD from which came her New York Times article about how we live with cats; Lisa Lunghofer runs the Animals & Society Institute and discusses the issue of taking animal abuse by children seriously; Dina Zaphiris is a medical researcher at the Situ Foundation (info@dogsdetectcancer.org) where they study dogs sniffing out cancer, even from our breath that can reveal even the lightest amount of cancer to a trained dog (99% success rate in double blinded studies), which is being studied around the world in articles like this,
