Common Bonds Radio is a podcast featuring news and conversations about humane outcomes for cats and dogs and storytelling that celebrates the human-animal bond.
Conversation with Brent Toellner, senior director of national programs, Best Friends Animal Society, about Best Friends' 2020 Pet Lifesaving Dashboard.
State Representative Mark McBride talks about his bill to designate the shelter animal as Oklahoma's official state pet.
Brittnea Atwood is Lead Animal Control Officer for the City of Catoosa, Oklahoma and discusses the impact of COVID-19 on her operation.
Jon Gary, Superintendent, Oklahoma City Animal Welfare, shown here with shelter resident Scrappy, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on municipal budgets for animal services. Beginning July 1, The OKC Animal Shelter absorbed a cut totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars, prompting some changes in operations.
The First Cowgirl of Oklahoma State University, Ann Hargis, shares how she has channeled her love of companion animals as an ambassador for Pete's Posse, OSU's animal therapy program.
Episode 11 HSUS Cynthia Armstrong by Kelly Burley
In episode 10, the Chief Mission Officer with Best Friends Animal Society, Holly Sizemore, shares her insights on the impact of COVID-19 from a national perspective.
Chanda and Ginger Pitts talk about adopting Bella Mae from Enid SPCA in our third installment on rescue in the age of COVID-19.
Laura Nafe obtained her DVM from the University of Missouri in 2009. She then went on to complete a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at North Carolina State University before completing a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Missouri in 2013. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Oklahoma State University. Her clinical and research interests include respiratory disease, vector-borne disease, and immune-mediated disease.
Jeff Cook is the vice president of Lab Rescue Oklahoma and sits on the steering committee of Common Bonds. Jeff shares his life journey that brought him to animal rescue and how his commitment to animals saved his life.
Episode Two features a conversation with the Executive Director of an Oklahoma shelter that focuses on dog transport and a spay-neuter clinic. And author Kate Strum explores the common bond of our love of animals through her short story "The Dog I Need".
Common Bonds Radio is a monthly podcast that explores the Collective Impact initiative supporting humane outcomes for cats and dogs in Oklahoma. Each episode will include a brief roundup of what's happening in the world of animals, a conversation about animal well-being and short stories about our experiences with the pets we love. Episode One features a conversation with the Executive Director of the Kirkpatrick Foundation about the origins of the Common Bonds initiative and the Foundation's role as the backbone support organization, as well as a short story by Oklahoma author Teresa Miller from a literary collection about our animals.
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