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The AWDC Podcast explores how nonprofits, community leaders, and data-driven tools work together to support animals and the people who care for them. We break down public data and processes, highlight how communities can influence policy, and share real stories from professionals creating system-wide change. Each episode shows how informed individuals and strong nonprofits can shape healthier, more compassionate communities for animals and humans.

Animal Welfare Matters is a podcast committed to raising awareness about the treatment of animals in Ireland. Join the conversations!

What is animal welfare? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It defines animal welfare as "health and animals having what they want", a definition that can be easily understood by scientists and non-scientists alike, expresses in simple words what underlies many existing definitions, and shows what evidence we need to collect to improve animal welfare in practice. Above all, it puts the animal's own point of view at the heart of an assessment of its welfare.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing.

The Animal Welfare Junction is a podcast developed to bring awareness to different topics in animal welfare. The host, Michelle Gonzalez (Dr. G) is a veterinarian who provides affordable veterinary care in the State of Ohio, and also a Forensic Veterinarian helping with the investigation and prosecution of cases of animal cruelty and neglect. The topics presented are based on the experiences of Dr. G and our guests and include discussions about real cases, humane projects, and legal issues that affect animals and the community. Due to the nature of the discussion, listener discretion is ...

We Dare To Care! By listening to our podcast you do too! Together we dive into a vast variety of animal welfare topics, speaking to vets, students, farmers and others, listening to their view. Our aim is to raise awareness on different issues and thereby make a difference. We would love to get your input. Let us know what you are interested in. Please share your thoughts and our podcast! :) Email us: podcast.daretocare@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagramm: @daretocare_podcast Some episodes are in English and some in German. Enjoy!

Welcome to MacMillan 180, the home of the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Animal Welfare Program (AWP). Gather around the table in “Room 180” to celebrate our 25th anniversary and learn about animal welfare as we reflect on the past, examine the present, and ponder about the future. Join our host Meghan Lok – who worked with the AWP throughout the anniversary year – and a lineup of our esteemed alumni, to ruminate on improving the lives of animals across various areas and topics. Website: https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/ Learn more: https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/outreach/...

On election night in November 1992, I waited anxiously with other animal welfare activists at the Radisson Hotel in Denver, Colorado, to learn the outcome of a statewide ballot measure to ban the baiting, hound hunting, and spring hunting of black bears.

The Guardian Angels Animal Protection program is moving ahead, full speed. Started by Nancy Sliwa, a cat colony caretaker for over 10 years in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, this program was started to help some of the most vulnerable and voiceless members of our society – animals. Study after study has shown that those who abuse animals are more likely to abuse people. So one of the earliest ways to combat the rise of crime in society against people is to stop abuse against animals.

Since 1987 the Performing Animal Welfare Society has been providing a safe loving home to wild animals that have been abused in captivity. Star Decker is in Galt, California, exploring PAWS with co-founding director, the late Pat Derby.

A podcast bringing you the latest information to help build stronger relationships with our animal companions, enhance training, assist shelter animals, and address other important issues related to animal welfare and training. If you are like us who love, live, and work with animals, this is the show for you! Please enjoy! Please contact us or find more information at Facebook page "Constructional Approach to Animal Welfare and Training" or email us at caawtcontact@gmail.com

On The Foster Files we are telling stories about adoptable animals and the people who save them. Our focus will be on highlighting adoptable animals while discussing the joys, struggles, highs and heartbreaks of choosing to foster animals in need. You can expect to hear about training, rehabilitating, adoption and rescue stories, and animal welfare issues and concerns all while learning about animals in your community who need a home. Who knows, maybe you'll find your next great love

With guidance from Paul Owens, The Original Dog Whisperer, you'll learn compassionate training methods for even the most sensitive dogs. This revolutionary, humane, and logical approach to raising and teaching promises to make training your dog the most positive experience possible!

Anna Payton is the Administrator of Will County Animal Control and an adjunct professor at Aurora University in the Human Animal Studies department. Anna Payton was most recently the Director of Aurora Animal Care & Control. Prior to that she was the Executive Director for Naperville Area Humane Society and the Director of Kendall County Animal Control. Anna earned her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her Master’s degree in Teaching with emphasis in Humane Education from Webster University. She has been in the animal welfare field f

In The Gospel of Kindness, Janet M. Davis explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War. Dedicated primarily to laboring animals at its inception in an animal-powered world, the movement eventually included virtually all areas of human and animal interaction.

The first step in establishing a healthy, happy relationship with your dog is understanding why he behaves the way he does. This entertaining audio program � designed for all ages � will teach you about "dogs being dogs".

What you eat doesn’t just impact you – it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the exploitation of the planet this book is for you. Rhiannon Lambert Well Fed is a vital tool in the ongoing battle against...

Don’t miss one of the most heartwarming young adult novels of the year. Perfect for fans of Water for Elephants, Wonder and All the Bright Places, When Elephants Fly shows that how we choose to live our lives matters, and that there are some battles worth fighting even if it means losing...

Brought to you by Penguin. Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He’d always been a soft touch when it came to animals...

For hundreds of years, humans and animals have had special bonds with each other. We've lived side-by-side through thick and thin - these relationships are not just about raising pets and farm animals. In Animal Kind, Emma Lock of YouTube fame shares stories of the incredible ways that animals keep us healthy and happy, physically and mentally. You'll be inspired by the tales of remarkable recovery, from vision-impaired individuals who have gained independence with the help of seeing-eye dogs, to the woman who found new life as an equestrian champion after an arm amputation.