It’s been a busy week over at Animal Cafe, and this week I’ve got a two great podcasts to share with you. Project Puffin There are so many things to like about this project and the details surrounding the interview by guest podcaster Hilary Lane that I’m just going to list a few: Puffins —…
Elephants Invade Europe, Southeast Asia
Don’t worry. The capitals of Europe and Asia are safe from thundering herds of pachyderms; it’s only their representatives that have been storming two major continents. Indeed, one of the reasons for the faux-elephant invasion is that the majestic animals themselves are disappearing in droves. As a result of poaching, accidents and loss of habitats,…
Stress-Free Dog Training: A Chat with (The Original) BATwoman
This week’s Animal Cafe podcast is exciting for two reasons. It marks the debut as a team member of Kelly Gorham Dunbar, co-founder and executive editor of DogStarDaily — the best dog training/behavior site on the planet — as well as a contributing editor at Dogtime.com. And her first guest is a rock star in…
Pet Travel Overseas — & an International Contest
I’m still a little crazed over the notion that a respected travel expert would dismiss an entire segment of travel, and a very popular one at that. Luckily, this month’s pet travel interview on Animal Cafe with Diane Silver, blogger at To Dog With Love and caretaker of the charming Cosmo Havanese, provides an antidote…
Food Patrol: What’s in Your Pet’s Bowl?
The pendulum has swung. From taking a laissez-faire attitude towards pet food, we dog and cat owners have become increasingly focused on the contents of our companion animals’ bowls. And what with the resultant glut of information, it’s not easy to separate the wheat from the chaff — or decide whether our pets should even…
Travelin’ Jack is Back — With Jill!
I have welcomed Travelin’ Jack, a peripatetic Olde English Bulldogge, to my site before. For one of my wordy Wordless Wednesdays, Jack brought pet travel news from New Mexico, where he has own blog and his own TV show. But as Frankie can tell you, behind every successful male is a good woman. In Jack’s…
Animal Cafe: Have You Hung Out There Yet?
Observant readers of this blog may have noticed a pattern: Once a week I write a post that refers to a podcast that appears on another site called Animal Cafe. Really observant readers — okay, if I’m lucky, members of my family — may have noticed that once a month I’m the one doing the…
First-Aid for Pets — and Empowerment for Caretakers
Coulda, woulda, shoulda — how many of us second guess ourselves, especially when it comes to the health of our pets? It’s bad enough to be confronted with an emergency situation that has an unfortunate outcome. It’s worse to think you could have done something to change it. According to the American Animal Hospital Association…
The BlogPaws Pet Bloggers Conference, Unplugged
Did you ever meet a couple of like-minded professionals and think, “We ought to put on an event together?” That’s not precisely how Caroline Golon, Tom Collins, and Yvonne DiVita started BlogPaws, a series of conferences and a community for pet bloggers, but it’s pretty darned close. Perhaps the lesson to be learned from the…
Talking Pet Travel & FIDO Friendly’s 50th with Carol Bryant
Carol Bryant and her dog, Dexter, are perfect pet travel ambassadors. Both are outgoing, photogenic, and, as far as I can tell, well-behaved (I can only vouch for Carol’s behavior first-hand during one dinner at last year’s BlogPaws conference in Denver, where I didn’t observe her drinking too much, throwing up, or insulting anyone, but…