Conversation with Brent Toellner, senior director of national programs, Best Friends Animal Society, about Best Friends' 2020 Pet Lifesaving Dashboard.

Common Bonds Podcast

Season 2 Episode 1

State Representative Mark McBride talks about his bill to designate the shelter animal as Oklahoma's official state pet.

Episode 15 CalisLaw

Brittnea Atwood is Lead Animal Control Officer for the City of Catoosa, Oklahoma and discusses the impact of COVID-19 on her operation.

Episode 14

Jon Gary, Superintendent, Oklahoma City Animal Welfare, shown here with shelter resident Scrappy, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on municipal budgets for animal services. Beginning July 1, The OKC Animal Shelter absorbed a cut totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars, prompting some changes in operations.

Episode 13

The First Cowgirl of Oklahoma State University, Ann Hargis, shares how she has channeled her love of companion animals as an ambassador for Pete's Posse, OSU's animal therapy program.

Episode 12 Ann Hargis

Episode 11 HSUS Cynthia Armstrong by Kelly Burley

Episode 11 HSUS Cynthia Armstrong

In episode 10, the Chief Mission Officer with Best Friends Animal Society, Holly Sizemore, shares her insights on the impact of COVID-19 from a national perspective.

Ep10 Holly Sizemore

Chanda and Ginger Pitts talk about adopting Bella Mae from Enid SPCA in our third installment on rescue in the age of COVID-19.

Episode9 Ginger & Chanda Pitts

Fostering animals in the age of COVID-19.

Episode 8 Pama Palmer

Episode7 LeeviKnight

Laura Nafe obtained her DVM from the University of Missouri in 2009. She then went on to complete a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at North Carolina State University before completing a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Missouri in 2013. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Oklahoma State University. Her clinical and research interests include respiratory disease, vector-borne disease, and immune-mediated disease.

Episode6 Mixdown

Episode5 Coronavirus

Jeff Cook is the vice president of Lab Rescue Oklahoma and sits on the steering committee of Common Bonds. Jeff shares his life journey that brought him to animal rescue and how his commitment to animals saved his life.

Jeff Cook Lab Rescue OK

CommonBondsRadio Dec2019

Episode Two features a conversation with the Executive Director of an Oklahoma shelter that focuses on dog transport and a spay-neuter clinic. And author Kate Strum explores the common bond of our love of animals through her short story "The Dog I Need".

CommonBondsRadio Nov2019

Common Bonds Radio is a podcast featuring news and conversations about humane outcomes for cats and dogs and storytelling that celebrates the human-animal bond.

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