Do You Want a Happy, Healthy “Guilt-Free” Puppy?

Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (02-06-2022) #765: Tracie spends the entire hour talking about the future of puppies in America with Dr. Candace Croney, the visionary veterinary educator who has spent a decade studying how to produce happy, healthy litters from happy, healthy canine parents. Dr. Croney is a Professor of Animal Behavior, Ethics and […]

Kate Spicer Discusses Lost Dog: A Love Story

Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (04-04-2020) #669: Featuring Kate Spicer, Audrey Ruple, and Gay Balliet-Perkins. Kate Spicer speaks from London about her memoir LOST DOG: A LOVE STORY; Audrey Ruple invites everyone to sign their dogs up to participate in the Dog Aging Project at Purdue University; Gay Balliet-Perkins talks about the ways we pay […]

NYT Bestseller Rita Mae Brown

DOG TALK (07-04-2015) #428: The amazing author Rita Mae Brown (whose ground-breaking, multi-million-selling book Rubyfruit Jungle has just been re-released) spends a long time with Tracie discussing the importance of animals in her life, her idyllic Virginia hunt country habitat and the inspiration for Tail Gait, the newest book in her hound-centric mystery series; Alan […]

Dog Talk #372: (5/17/2014)

Dog Talk (5/17/2014) #372: Dr Alan Beck — Professor of Animal Ecology and head of the Center for the Human-Animal bond at Purdue University — who was quoted in Jane Brody’s recent New York Times article about the value to people of dogs — discusses whether therapy animals pay an emotional price for helping people; […]