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Nikki Moustaki
- Nikki Moustaki
Nikki Moustaki is an award winning freelance writer, TV personality, pet industry expert and animal trainer. She set up an innovative scheme, The Pet Postcard Project, which allows people to get dog food delivered to shelters simply by sending postcards of their dogs.
You can hear from Nikki how you can get involved in this food-raising enterprise, and how you can also nominate shelters to receive food.
Nikki also talks about Nitro's Law, and how she has been raising awareness of the issue, again through dog food- but this time she's the one eating it.
Nikki certainly does things in style and to celebrate having her Schnauzer Pepper, the two of them cruised from America to Europe and Pepper wrote about it in his Pepper in Paris blog.
You can find out more about Nikki, the Pet Postcard Project and Nitro's Law at Nikki's website, and she is also on Twitter and Facebook.
Research into osteoarthritis
Research into osteoarthritis is currently going on at the University of Liverpool's Small Animal Teaching Hospital. We hear from Canine Orthopaedic Clinical Research Assistant Ben Walton about what the study involves and what they are hoping to find out.
Ben is still looking for dogs to join in and you can find out how to on the University of Liverpool's website.
Jean Pearson talks about her dog Oscar who benefited from taking part in the research.
News
In the DogCast Radio News Kate and Nick have stories of the deaf dog who found a happy home with deaf owners, how our dogs empathise with us - and why, the dog who is branching out into traditional cat territory, the dog whose life was saved by a metal detector and the dog who was rescued after three weeks adrift off the coast of Japan.
Host Julie was saddened by the case of Cassie, a Border Collie was allowed to get to three times her ideal weight, after being fed a diet of junk food. She has some thoughts on the best way to treat a dog like a dog.
Plus with Easter coming up do remember that chocolate and other holiday foods can be poisonous for our dogs. Check out our article on Holiday Food that is Dangerous for Dogs.