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Jiminy's Cricket treats for dogs
If you want a dog but you want to keep your carbon footprint - or carbon pawprint - as small as possible, Anne Carlson has some treats that you'll want! Anne is the CEO of Jiminy's, who make dog treats from crickets. Yes - crickets.
- Anne Carlson
In this interview you can hear how crickets are not only an excellent protein source, how dogs really like the taste, and how the farming of crickets is not only far less damaging to the environment than traditional animal farming, it's kinder to the animals involved too.
You can find out more at the Jiminy's website, the Jiminy's Facebook page, and Jiminy's Twitter page.
- Anne Carlson
Rachael Grylls and her Record Breaking Dogs
The DogCast Radio team have been lucky enough to see Rachael Grylls performing with her dogs in the main arena of Crufts. She and her dogs have achieved incredible things together, and they even hold some world records! In fact they smashed four World Records in one day - perhaps setting anther record in the process!
- Rachael Grylls
In this interview Rachael talks about how she started to help her dogs achieve their full potential - and how she motivates them, and how putting the displays together is a real family affair. Together they have been on television many times, and done countless live performances too. But how they came into Rachael's life may surprise you! And if Rachael inspires you to explore what your dog can do, she had advice on how to get started.
To find out more about Rachael and her dogs, you can visit their Facebook page, and you can watch them on You Tube.
- Rachael Grylls
DogCast Radio News
In the DogCast Radio News this time you can hear about some unlikely animal pairings from the Ice Age wolf cub and caribou calf who were dug up recently,to the whippet and the magpie and the rescue dog who rescued a hedgehog. Plus, we have the stories of the caring retirement home for animals in Belgium, the Labrador who's had pioneering heart surgery and the golden retriever who's playing mum to an assortment of rejected pups in Beijing Zoo. And we pay tribute to Bretagne, the last surviving rescue dog who searched the rubble after the fall of the New York Twin Towers in 9/11 who has passed away aged 16.