Voices Carry For Animals Podcast

Produced & Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka "Mama Bear"
Guest: Nikki Sharp, Executive Director of Wildlife SOS (USA)
Topics: Discuss elephant tourism, the welfare concerns behind elephant rides and direct-contact attractions, and how travelers can make more ethical wildlife tourism choices.
A few moments of fun on an elephant’s back for a tourist can mean a lifetime of abuse for the elephant.
Few people realize that the captive elephant giving rides to tourists were wild elephants not so long ago. Elephants are wild animals with wild instincts and belong in the deep jungles. Then how is it they are found giving rides to tourists in Asia?
It all starts when the baby elephant is illegally trapped and separated from its natal herd. This is followed by a harsh training procedure called “phajaan” that uses pain and fear to break the spirit of the wild pachyderm. Severe confinement and isolation while being restrained with tight ropes and subjected to beating, prodding with bull hooks and spears, starvation and constant psychological abuse eventually makes the elephant a reliable tourist ride. Once this inhumane process is completed, what one has is one less elephant in the wild and one more elephant with a destiny of torture slated for it.
Sitting on the back of an elephant may be on a tourist’s bucket list for a royal experience, however the veil behind this seemingly harmless experience conceals a very dark secret, a secret that elephant owners and their riders will hide from the naïve tourists. The only way to train an elephant to perform tourist rides, tricks in circuses, weddings or other public functions and processions is through keeping the elephant in constant pain, fear. There is sadly no other way!
Moreover, it is not safe for tourists to ride elephants. Elephants are wild animals, and despite years of breaking their spirits, they are very much susceptible to succumbing to sudden trigger reactions like fear, stress and anger. Very often in a bid to escape their torturous lives, these elephants run amok or retaliate – putting at risk the lives of tourists and bystanders as well as the persons riding them.
Wildlife SOS Website https://news.wildlifesos.org/the-dark-side-of-elephant-tourism/
Wildlife SOS FB Page https://www.facebook.com/wildlifesosindia
Wildlife SOS YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@WildlifeSOS
TAKE ACTION- SIGN PETITIONS! https://wildlifesos.org/petitions/
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Produced & Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka "Mama Bear"
Guest: Leif Cocks - Founder of Wildlife Conservation International and Speaker, Author & Founder of The Orangutan Project
Topics: The current Orangutan Situation and WCI International Strategy. Discuss Leif Cocks next book "Wild Lessons"
By undertaking this multi-faceted approach to conservation, we aim to increase the number of wild orangutans under The Orangutan Project's permanent protection to 8,000, to ensure sufficient numbers of each orangutan species survive indefinitely.
Orangutan conservation is a complex issue that requires support and funding in multiple areas to be successful. The type and level of each strategy is determined by the needs of the particular ecosystem. The Orangutan Project recognises and understands that orangutan conservation must be supported at the grassroots level and involve local communities. We support a wide range of critical projects that address the holistic problem facing remaining fragmented orangutan populations - including fighting deforestation and habitat loss at the highest level. As a highly trusted organisation, The Orangutan Project partners with many orangutan conservation projects operating on the ground in Borneo and Sumatra.
The vision of The Orangutan Project is that: All orangutans will live in their natural habitat in secure and viable populations.
The mission of The Orangutan Project is: To ensure the survival of all orangutan species in their natural habitat and promote the welfare of all orangutans.
The Orangutan Project Overview  https://www.theorangutanproject.org/projects-overview/
Wildlife Conservation International https://wildlifeconservationinternational.org/
The Orangutan Project FaceBook Page  https://www.facebook.com/theorangutanproject.org 
Orangutans are in Crisis- Please Donate https://www.theorangutanproject.org/donate/
The Orangutan Project - YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/@TheOrangutanProject
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Produced & Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka "Mama Bear"
Guest: Michael Schneider- Founder, Executive Director & Chief Pilot aka "Top Dog" · Pilots to the Rescue
Topics: Pilots to the Rescue's Mission. Helped 7,000+ furry souls saved & counting!
Animal rescue nonprofit with wings, flying pets out of danger and into loving arms.
Pilots To The Rescue: They fly to save lives.
Pilots To The Rescue founder and Top Dog Michael Schneider embarked on his first animal rescue mission in 2015. He found out through the animal rescue community about a group of puppies that had been abandoned in a ditch in rural North Carolina. These poor souls along with a brand-new litter of puppies had been scheduled for euthanasia just because there was no space for them at their current shelter.
Michael was both shocked and saddened to learn that this shelter was so overcrowded that the dogs had no chance of being adopted. They had to be euthanized in a matter of days. Michael knew of several local shelters that had plenty of space, there was just no way for staff members to get to the dogs in time.
That’s when Michael and his longtime friend and fellow pilot Brian Orter sprang into action, flying down to North Carolina in just over an hour. After picking up the dogs, they flew back up to the East Coast, where the dogs were given the help and healing, they needed to find happy, loving homes.
Pilots To The Rescue Website https://www.pilotstotherescue.org/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pilotstotherescue
Donate and Fly to Save Lives https://www.pilotstotherescue.org/support
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PilotsToTheRescue
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Produced & Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka "Mama Bear"
Guest: Billie Groom- Founder & CEO of Institute of Canine Psychotherapy, Author, & Podcast Host
Topics: The Animal Shelter Crisis & Strategies for Success
Sentience- the Movement that is Changing Animal Welfare
Changing the landscape of the dog behavior industry through evidence-based methods, advanced educational resources, and humane practices.
If you are passionate about how dog’s think, learn, feel and want to gain a deeper understanding of dogs, you are in the right place!
Canine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the only method that recognizes autonomy and agency, encourages self-regulation, processing and decision-making to allow dogs to thrive. Through cognitive exercises, CCBT provides the basis for understanding the emotions driving the behavior (ie - habit, learned behavior) to then address behaviors in a way that makes sense to each individual dog.
Institute of Canine Psychotherapy Website https://www.instituteofcaninepsychotherapy.com/
Institute of Canine Psychotherapy FB Page https://www.facebook.com/instituteofcaninepsychotherapy
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Produced & Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”
Guest: Shelby Bobosky- Founder- Lonestar Humane Association & Adjunct Law Professor of Animal Law & Wildlife Law at SMU
TOPICS: The Introduction and Mission of Lonestar Humane Association in Texas. Supporting the SAFE ACT --The Save America's Forgotten Equines is bipartisan federal legislation (H.R. 1661 / S. 775)
Shelby L. Bobosky is a prominent American animal law attorney, advocate, and educator based in Dallas, Texas. She is highly recognized for her long-term legislative work with the Texas Humane Legislation Network (THLN), where she served as a board member starting in 2011 and as the Executive Director from 2019 until her resignation in January 2026. Throughout her career, she has transitioned from corporate litigation into full-time pro bono advocacy to champion systemic legal protections for animals.
Bobosky is actively campaigning alongside national animal rights groups to                                                                   
Support the federal SAFE Act (Save America's Forgotten Equines). H.R. 1661 & S.775.
This bipartisan federal legislation aims to permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States and prohibit the export of live horses for slaughter abroad
Please Call your State Reps & Senators (202)-224-3121 and ask them to Co-Sponsor--                                         
H.R. 1661 SAFE Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1661/text
S.775 SAFE ACT  https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/775/text
Save America's Forgotten Equines) You can also email your State Reps and Senators.
To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to prohibit the slaughter of equines for human consumption.
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Produced & Hosted by: Debbie Dahmer aka "Mama Bear"
Guest will be: Beth Frank- President at Community Cats United &  Rae Bitner aka ”Mama Cat” - Director of Operations at Community Cats United. 
TOPICS: UPDATE On Community Cats United! How you can get involved in your community and help the homeless cats living on streets. https://www.communitycatsunited.org/
Community Cats United, Inc. supports Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as a humane method to reduce cat overpopulation. They also support spay and neuter prior to adoptions. Their goal is to humanely reduce, through spay and neuter, the number of community cats who are unowned, living outdoors and having litter after litter.
​The use of adoption agreements/contracts and spay/neuter vouchers does NOT ensure that animals will be fixed. In fact, sadly they often are not.
Community Cats United respect and salute the men and women who act as caretakers, assist in the sterilization, and advocate on behalf of these unhomed, beautiful creatures.
Community Cats United believes there is STRENGTH IN NUMBERS and that our voices are stronger when we stand together for our beloved community cats!
 
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Guest will be: Mary-Ann Holm -President & Campaign Coordinator at Lucy’s Edmonton Advocates Project and Meena Jackson- Admin for LEAP
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Topic: Update on Lucy the Elephant in Edmonton Valley Zoo in Canada
Lucy the Elephant has been at the Edmonton Valley Zoo for 49 years and turns 51 this year.Lucy has suffered from many ailments, most brought about by zoo conditions.Respiratory and arthritis have been the most predominant.        LEAP CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR LUCY!
Leap for Lucy Website https://www.leapforlucy.com/
Leap for Lucy FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/leapforlucy
Leap For Lucy FB Page https://www.facebook.com/leapforlucy
LEAP Edmonton on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@leapedmonton3254
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