Welcome to Pat Derby's PAWScast.
Sign up for Pat Derby's regular PAWScasts: your chance to get the very latest updates on the animals and news from the Performing Animal Welfare Society's captive wildlife sanctuaries in Northern California.
Through our webcams, blog updates and PAWScast video podcasts, your involvement with the animals, sanctuaries and the issues of captive wildlife has never been more accessible.
We're delighted to bring you elephant updates: Maggie's transition from her life in the Anchorage Zoo to the rolling hills of ARK 2000; Nicholas and Gypsy's progress and the status of the bull habitat construction in San Andreas; as well as news of Ruby, Winky, Wanda, Lulu, Minnie, Rebecca and Annie.
Get information and updates on the animals you sponsor: Manfried and the other bears, Sheba and the other lions, the tigers, monkeys and all the rest.
This is also a great way to disseminate the latest press releases, statements and information from Pat and Ed regarding issues affecting wild animals in captivity.
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About Pat Derby and PAWS
- PAWScaster
- Galt, California, United States
- Pat Derby’s advocacy for animals developed more than 35 years ago when she began working with captive wildlife in movies and television commercials. While working on television series such as Gunsmoke, Lassie, Daktari, and Flipper, she witnessed the neglect and abuse prevalent in animal training. Determined to initiate better standards of care and handling for performing animals, Pat chronicled her adventures in a Book-of-the-Month Club autobiography, The Lady and Her Tiger. The first exposé of the treatment of performing animals, The Lady and Her Tiger won an American Library Association Award in 1976. Since 1984, The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) has been at the forefront of efforts to rescue and provide appropriate, humane sanctuary for animals who have been the victims of the exotic and performing animal trades. PAWS investigates reports of abused performing and exotic animals, documents cruelty and assists in investigations and prosecutions by regulatory agencies to alleviate the suffering of captive wildlife.
Dear Pat, i was so excited to see that Maggie was able to join the other elephants!!and that she is doing so much better there, than here in Alaska. I always felt sorry for her, here, therefore i did not go to the zoo to see her. Elephants do not and never have been suited for Alaska. I am so thankful that she was moved, and is with others of her kind. i know her heart is singing. Thank you all for doinmg what you do. Give Maggie a treat for me. stella wiggins/palmer alaska
ReplyDeleteWonderful video and Pat, you do a good job informing us of the pro-cedures and the reason for the caution, etc. What a wonderful place Ark 2000 is for the animals and it is thrilling to see Maggie join the others in a climate more suited to the animals with joint and limb pain. Keep up the good work. June Vance, Folsom, CA (formerly of Anchorage, AK)
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