Our podcast is back! Episode 1: The truth about stray cats and dogs. How can we help homeless animals? Our guest is the head of PAWS.
Our podcast is baaaack!
My guests and I talk about books, movies, travel, and in this episode, cats. We love cats. I live with three former street cats. This city is full of stray cats who depend on the kindness of people.
When Serendra mall complex in BGC announced that they would fine their shop tenants and residents Php10,000 if they fed the many stray cats in that area, two questions came up.
First, why would I set foot in that place, then?
And more importantly, how do we deal with the huge population of stray cats—and dogs—in this city? What is the serious, long-term, sustainable solution? The sad truth is that we cannot adopt every stray cat and dog out there—the math is not on our side. What then? How do we keep homeless cats and dogs from being rounded up and taken to the city pound, where they will almost certainly be killed?
My guest is Anna Cabrera, Executive Director of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). If you have questions for Anna and PAWS, post them in Comments, or send my cats a message on Instagram, @jessicazafrascats.
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Thanks to Nexus Technologies for supporting the return of our podcast! Our next episodes should be available on iTunes. (The next episodes will be better, I promise, I learned Garage Band five minutes ago.)
Thanks, too, to Nella Sarabia for lending us a quiet spot in her optical shop to record our conversation.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 10th, 2018 at 11:36
Yey for the podcast! Can the Reading Group discussion be turned into an episode? I want to join but my crippling shyness tells me no (for now).
October 10th, 2018 at 16:41
Thanks for the idea! We actually recorded the last reading group discussion. I’ll see if the sound is good.
October 10th, 2018 at 19:21
thanks for doing podcasts again! pampawi ng sayang na oras sa pagdadrayb sa trapik.
October 11th, 2018 at 23:18
Thanks, turmukoy!
Sali ka naman sa Reading Group. Sa Nobyembre ang susunod na meeting.
October 17th, 2018 at 19:23
would be my pleasure to join, ma’am. i was intending to buy the kindle book when you announced the title, but this overseas trip from nov15 to dec 5 was at the back of my mind and probably will be in conflict,
so i would rather commit to the december session (baka may christmas party na rin :-) )
p.s. i wasnt able to finish dune when i first tried reading it, so i was silent last month.