Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (12-28-2019) #655: Featuring Callie Shell, Sara Driscoll, and Colin Butcher. Callie Shell was Barack Obama’s photographer from his early days in Chicago right to the White House and her book of photos and commentary, HOPE, NEVER FEAR, are beautiful reminders of a much finer time in these United States (when […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (07-06-2019) #630: Featuring Rachel Geller, Siri Zwemke, and Lauren Miele. First, cat behavior expert Rachel Geller (author of Saving the World One Cat at a Time) answers listeners’ questions with Tracie: from Laura, who added a 7th cat causing big disruptions and is on the brink of becoming a hoarder; […]
The Buzz in Chicago: the Imminent Arrival of the NY Dog & Cat Film Festivals™ ! Pet lovers in the Windy City are about to have their socks blown off — because the 2nd Annual NY Dog Film Festival™ is returning to town on Sunday April 29th , this time to The Patio Theater. There […]
The Dog Film Festival Was Boffo in Chicago! The dog lovers of Chicago came out in droves to see the Dog Film Festival at the wonderful Music Box theater, which worked right alongside the Festival team in doing PR. We chose Chicago because our national sponsor the Petco Foundation had given a grant to the […]
Holistic Vets (04-04-2016) #3059: Dr. Deb Rykoff in Chicago talks about her two holistic clinics — For Life Animal Wellness Center in Hoffman Estates and the Fox River Animal Wellness Center — and how she uses essential oils, chiropractic assessments, and the importance of the whole digestive tract, which explains the benefits of the sheep\’s milk yogurt in Ewegurt.
Dog Talk (and Kitties, Too!) (01-09-2016) #455: John Ellis, DVM PhD — a microbiologist at the University of Saskatchewan — talks about the new vaccine for the new dangerous dog flu (H3N2) that recently hit the Chicago area and explains how flu vaccines are created for the welfare of pets and people — answering Tracie’s […]
The New Dog Flu — Coming to a Town Near You? I don’t like to be a fear monger, but the new strain of dog flu that killed and sickened many dogs in Chicago, has now spread to 12 states beyond Illinois. A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about an episode of THE […]
The New Dog Flu – What You Really Need To Know By now you’ve probably heard about the brand new H3N2 strain of dog flu that has swept through Chicago, sickening and killing dogs. Halo’s own veterinary expert, Dr. Donna Spector, happens to practice in Chicago, where she is a board certified internist so I […]
Have you heard about the brand new H3N2 dog flu sweeping through Chicago and sickening and killing dogs? It may actually be worse than you think: round-the-clock testing has unveiled that this heretofore unknown canine influenza was originally an avian flu that made a “mammalian adaptation” and has been infecting dogs and cats in Asia […]
Humane Talk (5-05-2014) #8016: Wayne tells Tracie about the Shelter Pet Project — a project of The HSUS, the Ad Council, and the pet foundation Maddie’s Fund — that promotes shelter adoptions through a national ad campaign; “Pets for Life” helps under-served communities in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia host free pet health clinics. […]
