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Pet sitter of the year Amy Munns traces arc of her 25 year career since leaving the corporate world to start her pet care business
3+ hour, 33+ min ago (331+ words) Amy Munns'named the 2026 Pet Sitter of the Year by Pet Sitters International, (PSI), considered the world's leading educational association for professional pet sitters and dog walkers'recalls that animals were always around while she was growing up in San Antonio, yet…...
Local emergency veterinarian discusses array of holiday-related pet accidents, illnesses—and how to prevent them
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (394+ words) Dr. Holly Dutton'Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets, a national operation specializing in around-the-clock emergency care for pets'reviews some of the VEG ER distinguishing traits we covered in her June 2025 appearance on "Talking…...
Florida Nonprofit Created By Animal Rescue Veteran Seeks To Mitigate Scenario Whereby Fewer Than 20% of Domestic Violent Shelters Nationwide Accept Pets
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (513+ words) Andria Gibbon'founder and president of Protecting Paws for Life, a'nonprofit organization dedicated to helping more domestic violence shelters become pet-friendly'recalls, as a young woman in New Jersey, her transformative first foray into animal rescue, never imagining she'd still be doing…...
Talking Animals: VEG ER for Pets
7+ mon, 21+ hour ago (366+ words) Dr. Holly Dutton, Medical Director at the Tampa and Clearwater locations of VEG ER for Pets'a national enterprise that specializes in providing around-the-clock emergency and critical care services for pets'flips the script on my mention of the countless guests who…...
Bringing awareness to dogs biting postal service employees
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (215+ words) The U.S. Postal Service wants to reduce the number of letter carriers that are bitten by dogs. During June the USPS is organizing a National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign. The post office says more than 6,000 postal service employees were bitten by…...
Talking Animals: Fort Lauderdale pet detective recounts her career path, some notable cases, unveils app she Created to find missing pets
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (396+ words) Jamie Katz'who's worked as a Fort Lauderdale-based real-life pet detective for a decade'recalls growing up amidst a family that always lived with cats and dogs, as well as her initial efforts helping animals while regularly driving along a prescribed route....
Talking Animals: Founder of pilots to the rescue describes learning to fly, then launching org that helps shelter animals find homes
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (203+ words) Michael Schneider, a pilot and founder of Pilots To The Rescue'which flies animals from shelters plagued by low rates of adoption (and, often, high rates of euthanasia), to rescues where foster or forever homes have been arranged'describes the career reinvention…...
Talking Animals: Dog trainer and behaviorist (& ex-WMNF programmer) Glen Hatchell returns for another installment of “Ask The Trainer”
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (249+ words) As we've done 11 times prior'spanning nearly four years'today's program involved setting aside the usual "Talking Animals" format in order to present the show-length feature, "Ask The Trainer." In today's edition, before taking the first listener question, Glen spoke about the…...