Pawprint | animal rescue podcast for dog, cat, and other animal lovers

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is our amazing guest today. Today we discuss her new podcast, “Animalogy,” The 30-Day Vegan Challenge, and her recent trip to Africa.

A recognized expert and thought leader on the culinary, social, ethical, and practical aspects of living vegan, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is an award-winning author of seven books, including the bestselling The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan, Vegan’s Daily Companion, On Being Vegan, and The 30-Day Vegan Challenge. She is an acclaimed speaker and beloved host of the inspiring podcast, “Food for Thought,” which has been voted Favorite Podcast by VegNews magazine readers several years in a row, and her new podcast, “Animalogy,” is changing the way we talk about animals.

Colleen shares her message of compassion and wellness on national and regional TV and radio programs, including on a monthly vegan segment on Good Day Sacramento and as a monthly contributor to National Public Radio. She has appeared on the Food Network, CBS, PBS, and FOX; interviews with her have been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report; and her recipes have been featured on Epicurious.com and Oprah.com.

Website http://www.colleenpatrickgoudreau.com

Compassion in Action conference on Saturday, August 26, 2017

https://colleen03.wixsite.com/compassioninaction

Mentions in the episode

• Cowspiracy http://www.cowspiracy.com
• Diet for a New America by John Robbins http://johnrobbins.info
• Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz https://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Shocking-Inhumane-Treatment-Industry/dp/1591024501

About Nancy and Harold Rhee

We have been married over 20 years, fostered over 60 dogs in the past four years, and we love animal rescue and the amazing people who dedicate their lives. And of course, the dogs and cats!

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

About Pawprint

Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights. http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com

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If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

About Pawprint’s Music

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

Andrea Jordan is our wonderful guest for Episode 100! She is from New Zealand, and after seventeen years in the corporate world in New Zealand and the UK, she decided to become a digital nomad. She is a business strategist who works with entrepreneurs and business owners through her venture, LearnDiscoverBeFree.

Andrea practices what she preaches, traveling around the world to live, to work, and to play. In today’s episode, she shares her own creative way of getting involved with animal rescue.

New Coaching Program!

Here’s a new program that Andrea has just put on her website. It’s a 30-day group program for entrepreneurs who’ve had trouble taking action in their business. The participants take an idea and implement it during the program. http://learndiscoverbefree.com/idea-to-implementation/

Website and social media to find Andrea Jordan

• Website www.learndiscoverbefree.com
• Facebook for my business - https://www.facebook.com/AndreaJordanBusinessStrategist
• Facebook for my photography - https://www.facebook.com/AndreaJordanPhotography/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/travellingjordan/

Free resources on Andrea’s website

• For bloggers – a workbook that contains my simple 3 step system to create 6 months worth of blog posts in an hour or two http://learndiscoverbefree.com/3-steps-to-blog-ideas
• For those with big dreams – a 5 part mini-course to help you set BIG goals for 2017 and create a plan to achieve them. http://learndiscoverbefree.com/plan-your-2017/

Animals Shelters

Care for Dogs (Chiang Mai, Thailand) - http://www.carefordogs.org/

Playa Animal Shelter (Playa Del Carmen, Mexico) - http://playaanimalrescue.org/

Mayan Family, Hope For The Animals (Lake Aitilan, Guatemala) - https://www.mayanfamilies.org/

Housesitting

New Zealand – https://www.kiwihousesitters.co.nz/

Worldwide - https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/su/HdUnFcKU (using this link will give a 20% discount on the annual fee)

Airbnb

Using this link will give free travel credit - www.airbnb.com/c/andreaj245

Articles written by Andrea Jordan

Stuff - http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/87417465/travel-blog-three-months-by-the-lake-in-guatemala Stuff is New Zealand’s largest online news network. This article was also published in two New Zealand newspapers – The Press and The Dominion Post

Andrea also has an upcoming article in House Sitting Magazine.

Book mentioned in the episode

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, helped inspire Andrea with the name of her website.

Thanks to soundbible.com for the Fireworks sound effect.

If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal ...

In today’s episode, Nancy shares her experience helping transport 14 dogs from Livermore Airport in California to Idaho with the organization Wings of Rescue. The Front Street Animal Shelter transported 25 dogs!

Harold shares some of his thoughts on shelter animal photography for the beginner photographer.

Resources for Nancy’s discussion on Wings of Rescue

Contra Costa Animal Services

• http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/59/Animal-Services

Front Street Animal Shelter (City of Sacramento)

• http://www.cityofsacramento.org/general-services/animal-care

Idaho Humane Society

• https://www.idahohumanesociety.org

Ric Browde of Wings of Rescue was our guest on episode 54

• http://www.thisispawprint.com/54-ric-browde-wings-of-rescue-20000-pets-flown-and-counting/

Dr. Peter Rork of Dog is My Co-Pilot was our guest on episode 50

• http://www.thisispawprint.com/50-peter-rork-dog-is-my-copilot-up-in-the-air-for-animal-rescue-welfare/

René Kaiser-Riley with Summer Mae Photography photographed the dogs’ landing in Idaho.

• Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/summermaepics/?pnref=lhc

Photo Credit, thanks to Cindy Smith of Wings of Rescue

Resources for Harold’s discussion on shelter pet photography

A great introduction on how to photograph dogs and cats at a shelter.

Seth Casteel’s photography tutorial, “How to Photograph Shelter Pets”

https://youtu.be/1E0DLWQl4Ag

Some of the equipment Harold mentioned

• Canon Rebel XTi
• Canon 50mm lens (f1.8 Aperture)
• Six clamp lights
• Six LED light bulbs (100W equivalent, Daylight)
• Cooking Parchment Paper
• Binder Clips
• Folding Chair for a portable place to clamp the lights

Previous photographer guests include

• Rebekah Nemethy (episode 15)
• Barbara Brady-Smith (29 & 30)
• Adam Goldberg (76)
• Tom English (55)
• Sophie Gamand (episode 74, and creator of #PitBullFlowerPower)

You can also look into HeartsSpeak’s Perfect Exposure Project, which helps provide a wealth of resources to animal shelter organizations. You must apply first.

• http://heartsspeak.org/perfect-exposure-project/

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights. http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com

Sarah Wingfield is owner of No Stress Pet Sitting in the Gainesville, Florida area. She and her husband JD started their service in 2013.

Sarah shares her journey of starting a pet sitting service along with the ups and downs of running your own business. She also shares some animal stories, including her own dog, Campbell, and a surprise visit with a five foot python. If you want to learn more about Sarah Wingfield and No Stress Pet Sitting, and see some terrific photos of Sarah and JD’s family of animals, go to our show notes at http://thisispawprint.com/64

• Website http://www.nostresspetsitting.com/home.html
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NoStressPetSitting/?fref=ts
• Twitter https://twitter.com/nostresspetsit
• Gainesville Pet Rescue http://www.gainesvillepetrescue.org
• Plenty of Pit Bulls http://popb.org
• DONATEto Plenty of Pit Bulls http://popb.org/donate/

American Kennel Club’s Canine Good Citizen

• http://www.akc.org/dog-owners/training/canine-good-citizen/

ResQwalk app - a tracking app that records the distance you walk and donates money to local shelters. Currently Sarah’s preferred dog walking app.

• http://resqwalk.com

Helpful hint from Sarah. When using a pet sitting service, it’s always best to disclose all your pets, in case one of them goes missing.

Look out for future announcements for our Pit Bull series!! Initial episode should be released on Thursday, August 25.

If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights. http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com

Peter Rork is Co-Founder and Chief Pilot for Dog is My CoPilot. He and Co-Founder Judy Zimet have rescued over 4,000 dogs and cats by flying them from high kill shelters in places like California to the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions.

Peter worked for many years as a surgeon, while Judy is an attorney and real estate agent.

I highly recommend listening to the entire interview, Peter’s journey is pretty incredible.

If you want to learn more about Dog is My CoPilot, see some photos, or want to make a donation to an amazing cause, go to our show notes at http://thisispawprint.com/50

Dog Is My CoPilot (DIMC)

• Website http://www.dogcopilot.org/
• Donate http://www.dogcopilot.org/donate/
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DogIsMyCoPilotInc/?fref=ts

Judy Zimet

• http://judyzimet.com/

photo credit for Peter Rork photo: Jaclyn Borowski

Left on the cutting room floor

• One organization that Peter highlighted but didn’t make it onto the final episode was Oakland Animal Services in Oakland, California for being terrific partners. http://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/
• One person that Peter highlighted for being one of the first to ask Peter for his help in flying animals was Julie Townsend of Idaho Falls.

Article in the Jackson Hole News & Guide, written by Johanna Love, featuring Dog Is My CoPilot

• http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/valley/feature/tiny-dogs-get-big/article_5e511d21-8c67-5563-a1fa-08911edacacc.html

Best Friends Animal Society has a main location in Southern Utah, called the Animal Sanctuary.

• http://bestfriends.org/

Marti Watts of the San Francisco SPCA is mentioned in their Spring newsletter (page 11).

• https://www.sfspca.org/sites/default/files/ouranimals_spring2016.pdf

Sharon Lohman is with New Beginnings for Merced County Animals

• http://www.newbeginningsforanimalsmerced.org/

Jackson Jet Center in Boise, Idaho has been a great partner to Dog is My CoPilot

• http://www.jacksonjetcenter.com/

Cessna - Peter flies a Cessna 206 and Cessna 208

• http://cessna.txtav.com/

Pilots N Paws

• http://www.pilotsnpaws.org/

If you want the two free dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/

All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000

Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights. http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com