The Catherine Bradford Show

Everything Animal

Learning about, loving and protecting all creatures!

Animals are a part of everyone's life, and an important part of the world in which we live. I am well known for being not only an animal lover, but a dedicated animal advocate. Each week, on Everything Animal I will be interviewing experts from around the world about caring for, protecting and understanding all creatures on our planet. Come join us!

Host, Catherine Bradford

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Animal Legal Defense Fund - 8/11/11

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Today on Everything Animal Catherine Bradford welcomes Joyce Tischler, Founder and General Counsel for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. For more than three decades, the Animal Legal Defense Fund has been fighting to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. Founded in 1979 by attorneys active in shaping the emerging field of animal law, ALDF has blazed the trail for stronger enforcement of anti-cruelty laws and more humane treatment of animals in every corner of American life. Today, ALDF’s gr...

Merle's Door: Lessons From a Free Thinking Dog - 6/24/11

Ted Kerasote

Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert. Merle was about ten months old, surviving on his own, and looking for a human to hang his heart on. Ted was forty-one, liked to write about animals, and had been searching for a pup whom he could shape into a companion. The training went both ways. Ted showed Merle how to live around wildlife, and Merle reshaped Ted's ideas about the complexity of a dog's mind, showing him how a dog's intelligence could be expanded by allowing it to make more of its own decisions. Acting as Merle's t...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows - 5/05/11

Melanie Joy Ph.D.

In her groundbreaking new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy explores the invisible system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. She calls this system carnism. Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychologicall and social mechanisms....

Operation Baghdad Pups - 11/11/10

Terri Crisp

Operation Baghdad Pups U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan befriend local animals as a way to help cope with the emotional hardships they endure every day while deployed in a war zone. The Operation Baghdad Pups program provides veterinary care and coordinates complicated logistics and transportation requirements in order to reunite these beloved pets with their service men and women back in the U.S. These important animals not only he...

Animal Legal Defense Fund - 9/16/10

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned from Saving Racehorses - 8/12/10

Lynn Reardon

1-2 pm PST Lynn Reardon shares an unlikely story. In 2002, she quit her Washington DC–area office job and moved to Texas to open the racehorse placement program LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers). Though now the director of this high-profile organization that has helped transition more than 725 ex-racehorses into new homes, Reardon didn’t learn to ride until she was an adult. At the LOPE adoption ranch, Reardon encountered dozens of unruly racehorses, all with special needs, unusual histories and vivid personalities. ...

Bridging Species: Thoughts and Tales About Our Lives with Dogs - 8/12/10

Robyn M Fritz

Are your dogs and cats family members, not just pets? Then you're bridging species and creating multi-species families. But why? How do we respect, yet transcend, species? What are the mystical, cultural, practical, and even cosmic implications for our busy lives, our communities, and our evolving planet? In these wry, thought-provoking essays and comic tales an acclaimed writer explores news ways of thinking about the human-animal bond while building a full life with her animals - one challenging idea, one leap of love, one good joke at a time...

The Gentle Barn - 7/08/10

Ellie Laks

Several weeks ago Oprah shared the story of a group of sixty dairy cows, located in the Santa Clarita area of California, who were too sick to take to slaughter and unwanted at the dairy barn where they once provided milk. The non profit, The Gentle Barn pledged to accept all sixty cows once they were healthy enough to travel (a service provided by the local Animal Control Service). The Gentle Barn is a wonderful non profit that was begun out of the difficult childhood experience of the founder, who combined her love of animals and desire to he...

Twelve 'The King' ~ A Memoir - 6/17/10

Michael Blake

From author of Dances With Wolves Michael Blake Show Description: In 1990 while doing research on mustangs for a story he was working on, Michael Blake encoutnered a wild lead stallion captured and held by the Bureau of Land Management near Reno, Nevada. Recalling, his first encounter with "Twelve" at a holding pen, Blake writes... "There seemed to be an invisible barrier surrounding him, and non of the other horses, whether alone or in gangs, ever sniffed or touched or whinnied at him. The director recalled that on one o...

Hawai'i Wildlife Center - 5/06/10

Linda Elliot

At Kapa‘au, North Kohala, dedicated island conservationists are building Hawai‘i’s first wildlife recovery center. It will be a place of healing and learning. The Hawai‘i Wildlife Center (HWC), a 501(c)(3) conservation organization, will consist of three integrated facilities: a wildlife care and response unit, an interpretive and outreach courtyard, and an education pavilion. The Center will operate 7 days per week year-round. For Hawai‘i’s vulnerable, too often endangered native species, HWC will perform h...

National Justice for Animals Week February 21 - 27, 2010 - 2/25/10

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog - 2/18/10

Ted Kerasote

Disaster Preparedness for Pets: What to do! - 2/11/10

Allison Cardona

We are often prepared and know what to do in case of an emergency or disaster, taking steps to ensure the safety of our families and home, but do you know what to do for your beloved pets when disaster hits? Today on Everything Animal, host Catherine Bradford welcomes Allison Cardona, Director of Operations for the ASPCA Field Investigations & Response team to talk about disaster preparedness and what pet parents should do to ensure their pet's safety. To call in during our show with questions, please call between 2-3 pm PST ...

Rescue Dogs and Handlers in Haiti - 1/21/10

National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

Host Catherine Bradford welcomes back Wilma Melville, founder of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation. Catherine was honored to have Wilma join her last Friday during her first hour of Our View: Topical Talk, where Wilma explained that many dogs and handlers, trained by the NDSDF, from the Los Angeles team were actively working in Haiti looking for people still alive and buried in the rubble. During our interview she revealed that a team from L.A. had just discovered three girls, still alive in the rubble. I am pleased to have Wilma Me...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows! - 1/07/10

Melanie Joy Ph.D.

In her groundbreaking new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy explores the invisible system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. She calls this system carnism. Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychological and social mechanisms. Like other “isms” (racism, sexism, etc.), carnism is most harmful when it is unrecognized and un...

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