Cats vs Dogs in Cancer Research
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (03-24-2018) #563: Tracie talks to James Gorman — who writes often and in-depth about dogs for the New York Times — about Jim’s recent article (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/science/dog-science-cats.html) posing the question about the inequity in animal medical research, with dogs being used much more frequently; Aimee Gilbreath — Executive Director of Michelson’s Found Animals (https://www.foundanimals.org/) — announces the 5th annual Saving Pets Challenge, a competition for grants to shelters that has helped to raise over $5 million dollars on the Crowd Rise platform; Steve Feldman, Executive Director of HABRI (the Human Animal Bond Research Initiative, https://habri.org/ ), discusses their funding of a University of Georgia research study of the effects of fostering cats on the emotional and mental state of the elderly who live alone.
