This episode is sponsored in part by Tamadori and Doobert.com . Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Maura has trained thousands of individuals at hundreds of organizations on her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System, a process for achieving significant results and living a life of choice. She is a TEDx speaker, successful...
Feb 16, 2021•32 min•Ep. 391
This episode is sponsored in part by TICA and Doobert.com . You might remember Sam Wilson, who spoke at our Online Cat Conference in January. Sam is the Program Director at Iowa Humane Alliance, a high volume spay/neuter clinic, where she manages and develops outreach programs like the Iowa Trap-Neuter-Return Resource and Assistance Program (I-TRAP). Stacy and Sam discuss how a passion for community cats and affordable spay/neuter services led Sam to Iowa Humane Alliance, how COVID has shifted t...
Feb 09, 2021•29 min•Ep. 390
This episode is sponsored in part by KittySift and Doobert.com . This week Stacy talks to James Evans, president of CARE and multi-award winning creative strategist and leader with 25+ years of experience connecting organizations with their constituents. He has worked on numerous animal welfare projects including Gulf Spay/Neuter Campaign and HSUS' Pets for Life, Outdoor Cats Research, Stop Puppy Mills and Spayathon, as well as Best Friends Animal Society's Outreach Action Team, Maddie's Fund, a...
Feb 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 389
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . You might already know Nathan Khen from Instagram or Tik Tok, where he is known as @nathanthecatlady. Today Stacy talks to Nathan about cats (of course), building a following on social media platforms, reaching younger audience, balancing social media and mental health, the effects of COVID-19 on the world of cat rescuing, and dating as a cat person. Nathan is an actor, cat lover, volunteer with Milo's Sanctuary and the Cat Cafe Lounge, and a sp...
Jan 26, 2021•24 min•Ep. 388
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . Our guest this week, Allen Kamrava, has an impressive and widely varied resume focused on both business and medicine. Dr. Kamrava is a colorectal and general surgeon and the founder and CEO of Eusoh, a powerful platform working to change the insurance industry by helping pet owners afford their vet bills. Eusoh is an online community of pet lovers committed to helping each other with unexpected vet bills. It is an alternative to pet insurance, w...
Jan 19, 2021•26 min•Ep. 387
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . Mikaela Fleisher is the secretary for a nonprofit spay and neuter organization called PennyFix. She has been involved in animal rescue since 2009, volunteering with various organizations as well as working as a receptionist at a busy animal hospital. Stacy and Mikaela discuss PennyFix, an organization founded in 2017 whose goal is to partner with pet food companies to add one penny to the cost of each can or bag of pet food sold to fund spay and...
Jan 12, 2021•22 min•Ep. 386
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , and KittySift . Our guest this week has a very impressive bio. Dr. Michael Blackwell had a doctorate of veterinary science as well as a masters in public health. He directs the Program for Pet Health Equity at the University of Tennessee, chairs the Access to Veterinary Care Coalition, and serves as a member of the HSVMA Board of Directors. In the past he has served as dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee, th...
Jan 05, 2021•25 min•Ep. 385
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com's FosterSpace . In this episode, Stacy chats with Holly Ganz, Ph.D., a micro-ecologist who studies how microbes and mammals interact, with a specific interest in the role that the gut microbiome plays in gastrointestinal (GI) conditions in cats and dogs. In 2015, Holly founded Animal Biome to create better diagnostics and therapeutics for cats and dogs with GI conditions. She and Stacy discuss how she became interested in this field, and the Kitty...
Dec 29, 2020•21 min•Ep. 384
In this information-packed episode, Stacy sits down with Dr. Bob Weedon, a retired veterinarian who is still going strong as a volunteer at the TLC PetSnip low-cost clinic in Lakeland, FL, a board member of the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs (ACC&D), and in other volunteer posts. Bob worked in private practice and also spent many years teaching in the shelter medicine program at the University of Illinois, including teaching high-quality high-volume spay/neuter techniques to v...
Dec 22, 2020•38 min•Ep. 383
In this episode, Stacy sits down with Julie Posluns, the founder and owner of Cat School, an online training school for cats that uses clicker training to teach fun and practical behaviors and strengthen the bond between cats and their human in the process. Julie, who is a trained animal behaviorist, worked entirely with dogs until a small black kitten showed up at her back door. The cat, now called Jones, convinced the humans and the dogs in the family that he should stay—and he soon showed an ...
Dec 15, 2020•27 min•Ep. 382
In this episode, Stacy is joined by Camille Labchuk, an animal rights lawyer and the executive director of Animal Justice, Canada's only animal law advocacy organization. Camille also hosts the Animal Justice's Paw & Order podcast, which was reviewed in the CCP blog back in February. Stacy and Camille discuss what's going on in Canada with regard to cats, including the fact that, as Camille puts it, "People are really waking up to the idea that cat declawing shouldn't be a practice that we a...
Dec 08, 2020•22 min•Ep. 381
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , and KittySift . In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Conrad, who founded The Paw Project in 1999, joins Stacy to discuss the organization's mission to end declawing in the U.S. & Canada, using education, research, and legislation. The Paw Project is made up completely of veterinarians and the group compiled the evidence, drafted the legislation, composed the language of the legislation, built the coalition of support, and obtained the representativ...
Dec 01, 2020•23 min•Ep. 380
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . This week's guest is Brad Kriser, founder of Kriser's Natural Pet and Chief Education Officer of Independent Pet Partners. Brad lives in LA with his family and a menagerie of rescued animals. Stacy and Brad chat about Brad's role with Independent Pet Partners and how he promotes education around natural pet food both within the company and out in the community. They talk about the 5 Pillars of Wellness , developed with the University of Denver, ...
Nov 24, 2020•28 min•Ep. 379
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . Founding member of Archimedes' Printing Shoppe and Sundry Goodes, Susan Russell has had diverse experience as a writer, attorney, and animal advocate. She has led municipal animal shelters in Chicago and Philadelphia, worked as a litigator, and published an array of books including A Ruff Road Home: The Court Case Dogs of Chicago, several children's books, and the new series Gata Unbound. Susan and Stacy discuss Susan's newest book series (co wr...
Nov 17, 2020•25 min•Ep. 378
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com . Writer, curator, and design and material culture historian Sarah Archer speaks with Stacy about how her love of her rescue cats led her to her newest project. Sarah is a senior curator at Philadelphia Art Alliance, a contributor to Hyperallergic and many other publications, and has worked with organizations such as Project Meow and Morris Animal Refuge in Philadelphia, PA. After a cameo by Sarah's kitten Toast, Stacy and Sarah discuss Sarah's mo...
Nov 10, 2020•21 min•Ep. 377
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , and KittySift . Author of Hobo Finds a Home and Huck and Finn, Bookstore Cats and independent bookstore owner Kevin Coolidge is featured in this episode. The tradition of library and bookstore cats goes back to the Library of Alexandria and Kevin is keeping up the tradition with his two bookstore cats Huck and Finn, who have been featured in Cole and Marmalade's blog and in Bookstore Catsby Brandon Schultz. Stacy and Kevin talk about how Huck an...
Nov 03, 2020•18 min•Ep. 376
In this special episode, we celebrate National Cat Day by talking with Pam Johnson-Bennett , Certified Cat Behavior Consultant and best-selling author. Pam and Stacy discuss how Pam started her career and why we need to "think like a cat," as well as her latest project with ARM & HAMMER Cat Litter's "Purrfectly Impurrfect" campaign. The campaign is kicking off on National Cat Day to shed light on cats who may be passed by for adoption because of their age, appearance, or misunderstood person...
Oct 29, 2020•21 min•Ep. 375
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , and Heaven Can Wait . Kathleen O'Malley is a longtime practitioner and educator of TNR. She has worked for the Hudson County Animal League, the ASPCA, the Mayor's Alliance for New York City Animals, and Bideawee Feral Cat Initiative (FCI). In this episode Stacy and Kathleen discuss what to do if you see a stray cat, the many ways you can help with TNR, and the challenges facing those assisting community cats. Kathleen shares more about programs ...
Oct 27, 2020•23 min•Ep. 375
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , Heaven Can Wait , and C5 . This week Stacy talks to Meagan King, who has worked in pit bull rescues, animal shelters, and the pet service industry for more than eight years. She is interested in animal fear, aggression, and behavior and has worked with the SPCA of Texas as the Dallas behavior coordinator. She is a champion of fear-free cat-handling techniques. She currently works in Houston helping to identify community cat candidates in the she...
Oct 20, 2020•29 min•Ep. 374
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , Boulder Holistic Vet , and C5 . Kathy Black, an all-breed judge from the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) for the past 19 years, joins Stacy in this episode. Kathy has bred and shown cats for 30 years, and she also chairs the CFA's Companion Cat World (CCW), a program that celebrates rescued and non-pedigreed cats around the world. Kathy shares a bit of the CFA's history with Stacy, and explains that even though the CFA is "mostly a registry of p...
Oct 13, 2020•27 min•Ep. 373
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com , Boulder Holistic Vet , and Kitty Sift . In this episode, Stacy chats with Sarah Moore, the clinic manager for the Animal Protective League (APL) of Springfield Illinois's spay/neuter clinic, and with Dr. Teri Kidd, the clinic's veterinarian. They discuss how Dr. Kidd got into high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter and TNR, and how things have changed in the city, numbers-wise, since the clinic opened in 2006. Stacy, Sarah, and Dr. Kidd also discu...
Oct 06, 2020•29 min•Ep. 372
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com's FosterSpace , Boulder Holistic Vet , and Community Cat Coalition of Clark County . In this episode, Stacy chats with Jennifer Barnes, a US Marine Corps veteran who has been colony feeding and trapping cats for TNR for over five years in New Jersey. Known online as "The Trap Queen," Jennifer largely uses her own money to fund her TNR, and she doesn't drive—but she still gets the job done. She and Stacy discuss how she became involved in rescue an...
Sep 29, 2020•26 min•Ep. 371
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com's FosterSpace , Boulder Holistic Vet , and Heaven Can Wait Animal Society . Sarah Dunsmore of CDE Animal Cages, previously featured on CCP Episode 302 , joins Stacy to talk about catios, which CDE (a 2020 Online Kitten Conference sponsor) produces in all shapes and sizes for all different applications. Stacy and Sarah discuss the benefits of catios, and why a catio is preferable to letting a cat outdoors. CDE works with each individual to design a...
Sep 22, 2020•24 min•Ep. 370
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com's FosterSpace , C5 , and The American Association of Feline Practitioners . In this episode, Stacy chats with Holly Ganz, Ph.D., a micro-ecologist who studies how microbes and mammals interact, with a specific interest in the role that the gut microbiome plays in gastrointestinal (GI) conditions in cats and dogs. In 2015, Holly founded Animal Biome to create better diagnostics and therapeutics for cats and dogs with GI conditions. She and Stacy di...
Sep 15, 2020•23 min•Ep. 369
This episode is sponsored in part by Doobert.com's FosterSpace , Heaven Can Wait , and The American Association of Feline Practitioners . In this episode, Stacy catches up with Keith Williams of the Community Cat Coalition of Clark County (C5), based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Keith was featured previously on CCP Episode 297 , ad in a CCP Trapper Tips & Trips blog post . Stacy and Keith review C5's mission and background, and they discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has affected their work. They...
Sep 08, 2020•26 min•Ep. 368
Anna Raines, currently a community cat program manager at Best Friends Animal Society, has been involved in animal welfare for about 10 years. She started her career as a wildlife rehabilitator, where she learned about complaint mitigation and the importance of spreading the message of coexistence. From there, she became an ACO, a role in which she learned about TNR and community cats. After taking over the Best Friends community cat program in Cobb County, Georgia, Anna helped bring the county'...
Sep 01, 2020•23 min•Ep. 367
Anne Beall, CEO and founder of Beall Research, a strategic market research firm in Chicago, IL, is also an animal advocate who has written extensively about the human-animal bond. In this episode, she chats with Stacy about her most recent book, Heroic, Helpful and Caring Cats: Felines Who Make a Difference , and about how she came to be so passionate about cats after becoming the caretaker for several community cats. Anne and Stacy discuss why Anne decided to write her first book about cats, Co...
Aug 25, 2020•27 min•Ep. 366
Stacy chats with Julie Jacobson of Spay Tennessee, who is also the grants coordinator for CCP's Community Cats Grants program. Julie, a frequent CCP guest (check out Episodes 2 , 92 , and 268 , talks about how great this year's grant program had been going—until the coronavirus hit. Julie and Stacy explain how the Community Cats Grants work: They are strictly for spay/neuter of community cats, and they are matching $1,000 grants that a group can earn by raising money through a new fundraising id...
Aug 18, 2020•28 min•Ep. 365
Bonney Brown (CCP Episode 30 and Episode 181 ) and Diane Blankenburg, the president, and the CEO, respectively, of Humane Network, join Stacy to talk about the process of leadership recruitment in animal welfare. Humane Network assists organizations with this process and Bonney and Diane talk a bit about their process for going about a search and ways they can help throughout the process, depending on what their client needs. Stacy goes on to discuss with Bonney and Diane the best kind of interv...
Aug 11, 2020•29 min•Ep. 364
In this episode, Stacy chats with Carrie Gillaspie, a television and podcast host from rural central Wisconsin with a huge passion for helping animals. Last year, Carrie began noticing larger than normal numbers of barn and community cats in her area, and hearing complaints from the farms around her, that the cat numbers were out of control. Taking matters into her own hands, Carrie convinced a local group, The Fix Is In, to bring their mobile clinic to her neighborhood—and she raised the funds ...
Jul 28, 2020•22 min•Ep. 362
