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Tracie Scores Another Discount For Her Listeners!
15% Off On Pet Food Direct!
Tracie wants to thank you all for improving your pet's nutrition — so now everyone can enjoy premium and hard-to-find brands of pet food at the best prices.
It is easy as pie to use this discount.
No mumbo-jumbo - just go to their website, PetFoodDirect.com and pick some foods (I click on the "natural foods" to narrow down the choices and eliminate the highly commercial foods). When you check out at the end you'll see a box for "coupon code" — enter the single word (one word) DOGTALK or CATCHAT (no spaces) — they both work and you'll get 15% sliced right off your total. It allows you to try some of the super-premium gourmet foods like Weruva, which you might otherwise not find or find too costly.
I know it works because now I'm using it too — thanks to you wonderful listeners I have now been introduced to the ease of having heavy bags and boxes of cans arrive right at my door with a big discount. Very sweet deal.
RECENT SHOW NOTES
SHOW #71: (APR 12, 2008) Here are the links from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) that relate to the use of dog, cat and other fur on our clothing:
Investigation on dog and cat fur in China/Asia
Footage of a raccoon dog (a wild dog species) being skinned alive in China.
Video of pets caught in traps
HSUS website page on dog and cat victims of the fur trade
SHOW #66: (MAR 08, 2008) Are you grieving for a pet? Sometimes it takes a professional to help us process the sadness and pain of losing a beloved pet. Listen to Dr. Kathleen Ayl on the DOG TALK podcast of March 8 2008. You can also contact her here: drayl@vmsg.com Or visit her Website: www.griefassociates.com.
SHOW #64: (FEB 23, 2008) Diane Monahan founded the private Weimeraner/Sport Dog rescue Friends for Pets in Southern California - where Tracie adopted her first Weimeraner and fell in love with the breed. Diane talks about the importance of choosing the right micro-chip to protect your dogs and cats.
Robin Starr, Chief Executive Officer of the Richmond, Virginia SPCA, talks about the horrors of Puppy Mills in her home state. You might want to have a look at the brilliant piece she wrote for the local paper. The shelter she runs is a private, non-profit no-kill humane society that cares for about 3,000 homeless animals yearly and has a public spay/neuter clinic that does more than 11,000 surgeries annually. Read the Article. (PDF, 12KB).
SHOW #63: (FEB 16, 2008) Danielle Vasta won Petsitter of the Year Award from NAPPS - the National Assosciation of Professional Petsitters - and now she has begun a consulting business to help others learn how to start a successful petsitting business of their own.
SHOW #62: (FEB 9, 2008) Did you hear the DOG TALK® show FEBRUARY 9th with the kids from Dawnwood Middle School in Centereach who made houses for feral cats? Do you have any extra lumber you can spare to make more houses?? Are you anywhere near Centereach?? Please contact their teacher Natalie and let them put your wood to good use: www.youthforhumanity.mccsd.site.eboard.com
Who is Tracie and Why is Everybody Talking About Her?!
Tracie Hotchner is the author of THE DOG BIBLE: Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know (Gotham Books, November 2005), which is an encyclopedic guide to every aspect of sharing your life with a dog. At 750 pages, everything you can imagine is covered, from the mundane to the controversial - with startling facts about what’s really in the dog food you’re serving, whether vaccinations really cause cancer, and the hidden horrors of puppy mills, as well as the easiest way to keep your dog from jumping on guests. The down-to-earth practical information in the book has made it a best-seller and is already changing the way people relate to their canine family members all across the country.
About The Show
DOG TALK® The Radio Show gives you a chance to join in conversations between Tracie and callers about these topics and many more, always with the goal of having a good laugh while enhancing the life we share with our pooches.
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Listen to the Show
Starting Saturday December 9th, DOG TALK® The Radio Show is available live every Saturday morning from 11 AM to Noon (EST) and is simultaneously streamed live on the internet. The show comes to you live from the studios of NPR affiliate WLIU-FM 88.3 in Southampton, New York. You can also listen to any previous shows right here on the site. Just click on the links that come up under “Library of Shows.
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How To Call Tracie
Just dial 800-394-8830 between 11 AM and Noon (EST) on Saturdays and get in line to ask Tracie absolutely any question about the emotional, practical or medical care of your pooch. Listen in and feel free to comment on any questions or answers you hear.
Learn All About Taking Care of Feral Cats from HSUS.
Read more here.
Where are the On-Air Tips?
Every week people ask me questions, some of which may not be in The Dog Bible or I cannot answer well enough on the air. Also, they want specific advice about products and services and ways to go right to them. The only way to keep all these bits of information under control is to park them all at The Dog Bible -- where you can go by clicking www.thedogbible.com.
When you go there you'll find what you need in one of three places: under the Useful Links tab (that's Yogi Bear, my loveable Rottweiler who died of bone cancer), under Inside the Book (and then go to "Additions and Corrections") or under the Q&A tab, because there are some great questions and answers catalogued there with really useful information.
Dog Links
You'll find lots of helpful dog-related links on Tracie's THE DOG BIBLE site
Teach Your Kids to Read Dog
Read more about Teach Your Kids to Read Dog, Tracie's bite-prevention efforts in association with the HSUS. And in that spirit, here are Scooby Doo Hotchners' Twenty-Five Rules For Kids that you can download to look at with your own family or share with school teachers and other parent.
Whom To Thank
WLIU-FM is an NPR affiliate, and therefore is a non-profit, listener-supported station. We owe them our gratitude, and even a few bucks while you’re at it! -- for their bold decision to give dog-lovers a full hour every week to talk to Tracie personally, creating a dog-centric community on the air. If this makes you happy, don’t keep it to yourself! Go to www.WLIU.org and Say “Thanks” with any size contribution you’re comfortable giving. No amount is too small: if each person gives as little as a few dollars -- call it the price of a box of dog biscuits -- this show will be safely on the air for years to come. Do it for your dog’s sake!
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