Jacky Colliss Harvey joins us to talk about how the furry, feathered and scaly friends we’ve shared our homes with have shaped us for thousands of years. Her new book is called “The Animal’s Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story.”
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Michigan State law professor David Favre joins us to think through our evolving relationship with our fellow inhabitants of Earth.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the morality of owning cats, dogs, fish, birds and other animals with bioethicist Jessica Pierce, author of “Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets.”
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Dogs are a rare breed of best friend. They can help us find explosives, sniff out narcotics and even find dead bodies.
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We’ll talk this hour about the culture of dog parks – and about how they can be microcosms of the larger world – with the author of Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park.
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We’ll talk this hour about insight scientists have gained from working with disturbed animals with Laurel Braitman, author of “Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves.”
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