Pet Show for Oct. 21
Listen to Pet Show! Cohosts Bryan Dean and Dawn Marks and guest host Brian Sargent talk about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing a case regarding animal cruelty videos and Brian gives some Halloween tips including the number for the ASPCA Poison Control Center, 888-426-4435.
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Cohosts Dawn Marks and Bryan Dean and guest host Jesse Olivarez talk with Samantha Burnett of the Central Oklahoma Humane Society about National Feral Cat Awareness Day on today’s Pet Show.
Pet Show for Oct. 7
Listen to today’s Pet Show. Host Dawn Marks and guest host Brian Sargent talk to John Otto with the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association about the state’s license plate program that benefits low-cost spay and neuter clinics. Plus Brian gives some tips for traveling with pets.
Pet Show for Sept. 30
Listen to Pet Show. Host Dawn Marks and guest host Chris Schutz talk with Lt. Brent Koeninger of the Oklahoma City Fire Department about his search and rescue dog Huck. Oct. 1 is Fire Pup Day and in honor of that, we talk about how the jobs of fire dogs have changed.
Pet Show for Sept. 23
Listen to Pet Show! Host Dawn Marks and guest host Brian Sargent talk to Christy Counts with the Central Oklahoma Humane Society.
Pet Show for Sept. 15
Cohosts Dawn Marks and Bryan Dean talk with Lesa Staubus, a veterinarian with Oklahoma State University about the university’s partnership with the Stillwater Humane Society on today’s Pet Show.
Rock the pet vote!
Today’s the day! Vote now for Oklahoman Jody Harlan in the Animal Planet Hero of the Year contest! If she wins, it’s good news for Pets and People out in Yukon. (Listen to Jody’s visit to Pet Show last week!)
Here’s information Jody sent out about the contest:
Oklahomans have an opportunity to vote Sept 14-27 for a Yukon woman, who is one of 10 finalists for a national Animal Planet Hero of the Year award. Jody Harlan was nominated for co-founding a local humane society and a lifetime of other animal rescue work.
Supporters may vote for Jody Harlan once every 24 hours at www.animalplanet.com/hero through Sept. 27. Twenty-five percent of the judging criteria will be based on votes for each nominee. All votes must be cast online.
Harlan co-founded Pets & People Humane Society, which has rescued and placed more than 37,500 abandoned pets from local animal shelters since 1990. She helped two nine-year-old volunteers launch the Jr. Pets & People organization, which earned a national “Do Something!” educational grant in 1993. The junior organization became the only humane society operated by children in the U.S.“There are many volunteers who have done more that I have,” Harlan said, “but I hope everyone will vote for me because Pets and People could get up to $10,000 if we win this contest.”
“That kind of donation would save a lot of pets,” Harlan said, adding individuals can also contribute by spaying and neutering their pets and being responsible pet owners.
Harlan has personally rescued, fostered and placed 356 abandoned pets outside the humane society and operates a sanctioned Trap-Neuter & Release program, which feeds, spays or neuters, and releases wild cats to humanely control overpopulation. In the evenings, she manages a regional email group, which encourages adoption of pets on animal shelter death rows for 150 individual rescuers and adoption organizations.
Vote for Jody here. She’s the fourth picture of the slideshow.
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Pet Show Podcast
Listen to Pet Show today! Cohosts Dawn Marks and Bryan Dean talk with Janice Bailey with Lab Rescue of OK about Purina’s Rally to Rescue, Doing More for Pets Contest. One of the labs the organization rescued, Pearce, has a chance to win the national contest.
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Today on Pet Show, host Dawn Marks and guest host Jesse Olivarez discuss bobcat fever, which is passed to domesticated cats through ticks. Dr. Coldiron gives some details of the disease and how to do your best to prevent your pet from getting it. Listen up!
In memory of Boz
One of our favorite Pet Show guests, Boz, recently passed away. Boz, a boxer owned by Dr. Phil Mosca, was a therapy dog at Integris Southwest. You can read the original column I wrote about Boz last year. Also, here a video of a visit with our favorite therapy pup:
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
