Pet care with an ethical backbone.
Dog Talk (and Kitties Too!) treats companion animals as family, patients, personalities, and ethical subjects. Its conversations move from collagen supplements and feline mobility to rescue flights, cat-filled bookstores, human choices, and the hidden costs of making pets look cute.
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Dog Talk (and Kitties Too!) is a companion-animal show with a steady mix of care advice, ethical scrutiny, and affectionate curiosity. It treats pets as individuals with bodies, habits, fears, and needs. The show is broad, but not vague. One episode can move through collagen, hydrolyzed ingredients, dosing, feline joint pain, and the difficulty of noticing when an older cat hurts. Another can turn toward law, policy, and the human habit of infantilizing animals. The conversations often start in practical territory, then open into larger questions about responsibility. Rescue is not treated as a slogan. In the Wings of Rescue episode, the show focuses on the logistics and imagination behind flying animals to safer placements. Adoption is also handled at ground level. The cat bookstore conversation spends time with resident cats, foster partnerships, beverages near curious paws, and the balance between selling books and helping animals find homes. The show has a recognizable warmth. It is conversational, occasionally playful, and comfortable with side details, but it keeps returning to welfare, behavior, and better decision-making. Dogs with baby faces are not just adorable here; they become a way to talk about suffering created by human taste. Early spay and neuter is not just a routine procedure; it becomes a prompt for questions about development and behavior. The medical conversations are accessible without flattening the stakes. Cats hiding pain, supplements for aging animals, food choices, mobility issues, and organ health all appear as ordinary household concerns with real consequences. The result is a pet show for people who want to love animals more intelligently. It has charm, but it is not only charming. It asks owners, rescuers, adopters, and animal lovers to look harder at what care actually requires.
Made for: The show suits dog and cat people who want practical guidance, rescue stories, and animal-welfare questions in the same place. It is especially useful for owners interested in health, behavior, adoption, and humane choices.
What sets it apart: Its range is unusually wide: supplements and litter box problems sit beside animal law, rescue flights, cat bookstores, film festivals, and animal ethics. The show feels personal without losing sight of the systems that shape animal lives.
DOG TALK® features Tracie's interviews with authors, pet experts and animal welfare advocates from around the world, discussing practical and philosophical issues regarding our relationships with dogs, cats, other pets, wildlife and the natural world. The show broadcasts from WLIW FM 88.3 in Southampton, the only NPR station on Long Island, reaching from the East End across Long Island into Southern Connecticut and Westchester. The show’s theme song is “Mmm My Best Friend” by Sophie B. Hawkins from her album <a href="
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A cat-filled bookstore story that blends rescue work, local partnership, and everyday practicalities.
A bookstore that doubles as a foster home gives the piece its clearest hook, and the idea lands quickly. Three permanent residents keep the place grounded, seven more adoptable cats can join when there is room, and the partnership with SEK Animal Wonderful in Pittsburgh, Kansas,…
A practical look at supplements, dosing, and the signs aging cats can show.
Dog Talk and Kitties Too turns a supplement conversation into a practical look at aging pets, measured dosing, and why a veterinarian would rather avoid bones because of the risk of something getting stuck or puncturing the GI tract.
Waterford life, straight from the room.
Help people help animals.
Serious talk for animal advocates.
Real talk from the animal welfare front lines.
Jennifer Mowdy opened a bookstore and cat lounge in a poor Kansas community, defying the odds of independent retail.
Tracy Hotchner interviews a board-certified veterinary behaviorist about understanding and interacting with dogs and cats.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, providing structure to skin, bones, and joints, but production declines with age.
Tracy Hotchner interviews Rick Browdy about Wings of Rescue, an animal rescue flight organization.
An interview with Taylor Waters about animal law and policy, discussing infantilizing animals and related ethical issues.