Jon Katz

Do animals have souls? Does your dog have a conscience? Does your cat possess free will? We’ll explore the inner lives of animals with writer Jon Katz, whose new book is “Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm” (Villard, 2009).

Archive from 7/16/07 – Got pets? Jon Katz does – four dogs, four donkeys, a cat, several chickens, a herd of sheep, and a giant steer named Elvis – although he considers some of them livestock. Katz, who frequently writes about his menagerie for the online magazine Slate, was our guest last month to discuss the goings-on his upstate New York farm, and his book “Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm” (Villard, 2007).

Got pets? Jon Katz does – four dogs, four donkeys, a cat, several chickens, a herd of sheep, and a giant steer named Elvis – although he considers some of them livestock. Katz, who frequently writes about his menagerie for the online magazine Slate, will be our guest this hour. His latest book about the goings-on his upstate New York farm, is “Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm” (Villard, 2007). He appears in Fort Worth this evening.