I’ve been producing this event for ten years now, but it’s actually in its thirteenth year. Last year, we started using streaming Internet radio instead of text-based chat, although we run a real-time chat room so listeners can talk with each other, make comments, and ask the guest questions.
We’re kicking it off tonight with an interview with Nathan Winograd, one of the most controversial and inspiring figures in the no-kill movement. I’ll be interviewing him about the raging-hot issue of laws that give rescue groups the right to take dogs and cats slated for death from shelters. Laws like California’s 13-year-old Hayden Law, the recently passed Delaware shelter standards law, and the current battle over proposed shelter access laws in New York State, including Oreo’s Law — a topic I know many of you here have strong opinions on.
If you want to ask questions on that topic, be sure to drop by the chat, or post them here. And yes, they do have to be on that topic — I know there are lots of other issues you might want to question our guest on, but this is the one we’re looking at now.
The interview is this evening, Friday, March 4, at 9:30 PM Eastern. Click here for more details.
On Saturday at 5 PM Eastern, my PetHobbyist.com colleague and PetConnection reader Cindy Steinle will be interviewing Jennie Erin Smith about her new book, “Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers and Skullduggery.”
Then on Sunday at 8 PM Eastern, we’ll be welcoming Andrew “Roo” Yori and Marthina McClay to talk about their dogs Hector and Leo, two of best-known of all the former Vick dogs. Cindy will be joining them, talking about her own fight-bust rescue dog, Cleo — less famous, but no less awesome!
Chat Month runs every weekend this month, and we’ll be welcoming some of our Pet Connection team, including Dr. Tony Johnson on the topic, “Sewing tiny sequinned evening gowns for tarantulas,” and Dr. Robin Downing on “How to give your pets the really good drugs.”
Okay, I made those topics up. But they really will be guesting with us!
We even have a possible very exciting special guest who our own Gina Spadafori would be interviewing — wish I could say more, but you’ll be the first to know, I promise!
You can find out how to listen and participate, and keep up to date on when chats are scheduled and when new guests are added to the line-up, right here.
You can also follow PetHobbyist.com and kingsnake.com on Facebook, or follow me on my new Facebook page — I’ll post each event and each update to the schedule there, too!
“See” you this weekend!
Photo: Hector!
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