Voices Carry For Animals Podcast

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”

Guests: Pina Losawyer -Destiny’s Owner -Advocate and Hollie Stewart - Founder of Paws Angels Inc. 

Topics: EP2 on Destiny’s animal cruelty case . Destiny’s owner has been arrested. 

Destiny was a victim of extreme neglect & abuse -Left outside without food, water, advanced heartworm positive, could hardly walk, severe dental disease, suffering from a mast cell tumor larger than a melon ha...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”

Guest: Scott Beckstead - Chief Equine Programs Director. - The Wild Horse Refuge

Topics: The Wild Horse Refuge Model For Wild Equine Sanctuaries. Help Support SAFE Act H.R. 1661 & S.775

The Wild Horse Refuge is a private non-profit sanctuary that was created entirely for rescued Mustangs that were removed from Colorado Herd Management Areas (HMA). The Wild Horses living on the special pro...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guest: Jeff Coltenback - Founder, Director at Pitty Rescue, Inc and Founding Educator at The Pet Care institute. Dog trainer, author, speaker, Pitbull lover and Advocate Educator. 

Topics: People getting rid of their dogs due to threat from landlord or insurance companies

Pitty Rescue was established by Jeff and Diana Coltenback in April 2010 after 10 years of private rescue work. Since 2001...

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Guest: Judy Weiss- Business Owner & Blogger at Executive Pet Concierge and Judy’s Dog Report. 

Five essential things to know before adopting a pet, select a suitable pet for your family’s makeup & circumstances. Help to control the numbers of unwanted pets in the shelters. Adopt, don’t shop

Category: Things to know about getting a puppy or adopting a rescue

Recognizing and avoiding P...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”

Guest: Steve Hughes- President of PetsinDanger & Youth4Animals

Topic: Introducing ”Samson’s Law” Legislative Campaign in all 50 States requiring all companion animal breeders to have both a state issued breeders license & tax ID#.

PetsinDanger is helping to prevent the epidemic pet overpopulation, save the lives of millions of companion animals every year & change the landscape of...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”

Guest : Adam Sugalski - Campaign Director at Bear Defenders and Executive Director at OneProtest - An Advocacy Organization 

Topics: Help STOP the Florida Black Bear Hunt and Investigating using hunting dogs to hunt deer in Ocala, Osceola, and Blackwater, Florida

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission [FWC] is having meetings on Aug 13th and 14th on the Black Bear hunt in Dec, ...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guests: Kiersten Cluster- Co-Founder of Elephant Guardians of Los Angeles and Cory Mac- Organizer - Los Angeles for Animals 

Topics: Brief background on Billy & Tina the Elephants and the events leading up to their transfer to Tulsa Zoo

Both Advocacy Groups have been advocating since 2016 for the elephants held in the Los Angeles Zoo to be released to sanctuary (th...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear”  

Guest: Doll Stanley - In Defense of Animals - Justice for Animals Director

Topics: Governor DeSantis SIGNED ”Dexter’s Law” and ”Troopers Law” in Florida. IDA Current Cases - Support Petitions. Overpopulation crisis in shelters. 

Justice for Animals Campaign promotes in an environment and which laws are enacted and enforced. IDA has literally worked hundreds of cases, and rescued thousands o...

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Guest: James Scott- Campaign Coordinator for Speak Out Wekiva

Topic: Help STOP the Florida Black Bear Hunt

On May 21st, the FWC Commissioners voted 4-1 to change the hunting rules to have a bear hunt every year using dogs to chase/kill bears, allowing baiting of bears, have no check stations, allowing archery and delegating annual quota to the Executive Director., public would have no input. ...

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Guest: Suzana Gartner- Animal Advocate, Author ”A Voice For Animals”, Speaker, Retired Animal Rights Lawyer.

Topics: Why adopting animals from shelters and rescues is a better option. Suzana’s personal experience becoming an animal advocate and animal lawyer helpful suggestions & resources for the others who are interested in getting involved. Discussion on new book.

Suzana has appeared...

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Guest: Kate McFall - Florida State Director of Humane World for Animals 

Topics: Brief legislative recap from 2025 session. Bear Hunt being considered by the FWC

For more than 70 years, Humane World for Animals—formerly called the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International—has been a leader of the animal protection movement, tackling the root causes of animal cruelt...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guest will be: Jeff and Pina Losawyer- Destiny’s owners

Topic: ”Justice for Destiny” - Support Destiny’s Law. Stronger penalties for animal abuse and neglect. 

Destiny's Story

Destiny was a victim of extreme neglect and abuse—left outside without food, water, advanced heartworm positive,  could hardly walk, severe dental disease, suffering from a Mast Cell Tumor larger than a melon hanging ...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guest: Spencer B. Hodgetts - CEO & Founder- Reboundog LTD

Topics: Congrats Reboundog 5th year Anniversary! Reboundog’s mission is to drive social change in pet welfare through a innovative and impactful events designed to inspire and connect. 

Reboundog believes in the power of culture to shape the future of animal and human welfare, where every conversation serves as a catalyst for inno...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guests will be: Caroline Griffin- Co-founder of Show Your Soft Side and Dawn Cannella- SYSS Board Member and Founder of Peninsula Colony Cats 

Topic: Compassion in Action: Show Your Soft Side’s Quest to Save Baltimore’s Street Cats. 

SYSS has nine programs, but the street Kitty medical fund is a unique program that has grown exponentially. Dawn has been rescuing street cats for over a decade...

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Guests: David Holroyd aka David Capello and Tracy Holroyd , authors of ”The Perfect Pair Dolphin Trilogy” book series

Topics: David is the former UK head Ceta trainer featured in book series. David will expose the unofficial UK media block on his story, his run ends with the well-known animal charities and the cover-ups. 

The eye opening book series serves as a call to action against animal ...

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Guest : Keith Dane - Consultant for Equine Protection for the Humane World for Animals- Formerly called The Humane Society of the United States

Topic: Horse Soring -efforts to end it, roadblocks, setbacks and how we can overcome them. 

Soring involves the intentional infliction of pain to a horse’s legs or hoofs in order to force the horse to perform an artificial exaggerated gait, causing e...

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Guest: Mary Schwager aka ”Watchdog Mary” - Award-winning investigation journalist writing about animals. 

How to be Pet Detective and WatchDog on both sides of your local animal shelter.

How many animals your local shelter is euthanizing? Adopting out? Sending to fosters? If you don’t know you should find out and here’s why. So it’s more like you need to be a pet detective in your community. ...

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Guest: Liz Menegon - Founder of Hands2Paws and Host of ”PAW’D CAST” 

Topics: The true cost of buying puppies online and pet stores. Healthy adoptable animals at shelters at all ages are being put down cause of overcrowding. Nationwide ongoing problems need massive attention and fixed

Liz wants Hands2Paws to be a valuable resource to educate consumers on choosing the right purebred dog for the...

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer aka ”Mama Bear” 

Guest: Mary- Ann Holm - President & Campaign Coordinator at Lucy’s Edmonton Advocates’ Project [LEAP]

Topic: Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants Documentary Released in Canada - look for release in USA

https://www.leapforlucy.com/ 

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