#987B: Eleanor Lerman’s short stories in “King the Wonder Dog - and Other Stories” include dogs in the lives of all her characters, who are grappling with isolation, ill health, old age, or just being human — and how these dogs are witnesses to their lives and often their salvation.

#987A: Clair Linzey, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre of Animal Ethics, and Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation, was raised by a chaplain father who was renowned for his work promoting animal ethics and our moral obligation to consider animals. Clair Linzey oversees a department that explores human behavior and attitudes towards animals around the globe.

#986B: Dr Kevin Toman in California specializes in evidence-based solutions to pain and aging and helps people anywhere seeking those interventions — highly recommending Ellevet CBD and Rapamycin among other treatments.

#986A: Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton has put his fertile imagination and historical knowledge to work in his newest book, “Wolf, Moon, Dog,” inventing scenarios from the wolf’s perspective throughout chapters in human history.

#985B: Oliver Starr, known as "The Wolf Guy" to 300,000 followers actually shares a wolf habitat in Lake Tahoe with a pack that he and his wife have raised and live amongst. His book "The Wolf Lover’s Guide to Raising Dogs” sheds fascinating light on how we can get closer to our own dogs.

#985A: Dr. Erin Troy who owns the Muller Animal Hospital in Walnut Creek, California, is a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner who shares her extraordinarily successful experiences using the one-time injection Synovetin OA — both personally with her 18-month-old Lab (who suffered from joint arthritis even so young), and in her clinic with numerous dogs whose lives were turned around from this once-yearly injection with no side effects.

#984A: Dr. Sean Wensley in England talks about his book "Through a Vet's Eyes: How to Care for Animals and Treat Them Better," which describes the many ways people are unaware of suffering of the animals around them — and the ways we could avoid or alleviate those discomforts.

#984B: Dr. Elaine Ostrander, a canine genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH, talks about the study of dog genes, her appreciation of Citizen Science and the international community of scientists studying how to keep dogs (and possibly humans?) healthier for longer.