MPB Programs
- Between the Lions
- Can I Kick It?
- Composers A-Z
- Creature Comforts
- Divided We Stand
- Ed Said
- Farmweek
- Fit to Eat
- Remembering the Freedom Rides
- Friday Night Under the Lights
- The Gestalt Gardener
- Grassroots
- Highway 61 Radio
- Home Front to Battlefront: Mississippi During WWII
- Job Hunter
- Midday Classical
- Mississippi Arts Hour
- Mississippi Edition
- Mississippi Outdoors
- Mississippi Roads
- Modern Classical
- Money Talks
- MPB Celebrates Excellence
- Paul Lacoste Sports Fit 4 Change
- Quorum
- Relatively Speaking
- Rise for Relief
- Snapshot Mississippi
- Sounds Jewish
- Southern Expressions
- Southern Remedy
- Southern Remedy Healthy Living
- Sucarnochee Revue
- Thacker Mountain Radio
- Writers
Kids Programs
- Angelina Ballerina
- Arthur
- Between the Lions
- Bob the Builder
- Caillou
- The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
- Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Curious George
- Cyberchase
- Dinosaur Train
- Ed Said
- The Electric Company
- Fetch with Ruff Ruffman
- Martha Speaks
- Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Sesame Street
- Sid the Science Kid
- Super WHY!
- Thomas and Friends
- WordGirl
- Word World
A-Z Programs
- All Things Considered
- American Experience
- Stop the Drop: A Dropout Prevention Summit
- American Masters
- American Routes
- America’s Test Kitchen
- Angelina Ballerina
- Antiques Roadshow
- Arthur
- Ask this Old House
- High School Basketball
- BBC Radio
- BBC World News
- Between the Lions
- Bob the Builder
- Caillou
- Can I Kick It?
- Car Talk
- The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
- Charlie Rose
- Classical 24
- Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Composers A-Z
- A Conspiracy To Do Good
- Creature Comforts
- Curious George
- Cyberchase
- Dinosaur Train
- Divided We Stand
- Echoes
- Ed Said
- The Electric Company
- Exploring Music
- Farmweek
- Fetch with Ruff Ruffman
- Fit to Eat
- High School Football
- Remembering the Freedom Rides
- Fresh Air
- Friday Night Under the Lights
- From the Top
- Frontline
- The Gestalt Gardener
- Grassroots
- The Gulf Islands: Mississippi’s Wilderness Shore
- Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
- Hearts of Space
- Here and Now
- Highway 61 Radio
- Home Front to Battlefront: Mississippi During WWII
- Independent Lens
- Inside Washington
- Jazz with Bob Parlocha
- Job Hunter
- Krista Trippett on Being
- Living on Earth
- Marketplace
- Martha Speaks
- Masterpiece
- The McLaughlin Group
- Midday Classical
- Mississippi Arts Hour
- Mississippi Edition
- Mississippi Outdoors
- Mississippi ReMixed
- Mississippi Roads
- Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Modern Classical
- Money Talks
- Morning Edition
- Motorweek
- MPB Celebrates Excellence
- Nature
- Need to Know
- Nightly Business Report
- NOVA
- Only a Game
- On Point
- Passport to Adventure
- Paul Lacoste Sports Fit 4 Change
- PBS Arts Festival | Mississippi
- PBS Newshour
- People’s Pharmacy
- Performance Today
- Piano Jazz
- Pipedreams
- Poetry Out Loud
- Quorum
- Relatively Speaking
- Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
- Rick Steves’ Europe
- Rise for Relief
- Second Opinion
- Secrets of the Dead
- Sesame Street
- Sewing with Nancy
- Sid the Science Kid
- Snapshot Mississippi
- Sounds Jewish
- Southern Expressions
- Southern Remedy
- Southern Remedy Healthy Living
- Spelling Bee
- Splendid Table
- St. Paul Sunday
- The Story
- Sucarnochee Revue
- Super WHY!
- Symphony Cast
- Tavis Smiley
- Tell Me More
- Thacker Mountain Radio
- Thistle and Shamrock
- This American Life
- This Old House
- Thomas and Friends
- To the Best of Our Knowledge
- To the Contrary with Bernie Erbe
- To the Point
- Victory Garden
- Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me
- Washington Week
- Weekend Edition
- Whad’Ya Know
- Woodturning Workshop
- WordGirl
- Word World
- World Café
- World of Opera
- Writers
Creature Comforts
Check out Creature Comforts on MPB Think Radio! Each week, Libby Hartfield, Director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science brings a specialist into the studio to answer your questions about various animals we see in Mississippi. And of course, Dr. Troy Majure, a veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center of Jackson answers your pet questions. Each week, you’ll learn more about the animals that live in our homes and the animals who live in the world around us. You’ll also find out more about family-friendly exhibits and events at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson. Email your pet and animal questions to animals@mpbonline.org and listen to Creature Comforts Thursday mornings at 9 on MPB Think Radio.
Radio Episodes
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Excerpt (53:03) | Air date 05/17/12Dr. Majure talks about keeping your pet's eyes healthy and listeners share the stories behind their pets' names!
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Excerpt (53:14) | Air date 05/10/12Tom Mann tells us the difference between a lizard & salamander! Dr. Majure suggests ways to keep ticks & fleas away!
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Excerpt (52:34) | Air date 05/03/12Nicole Smith & Megan Fedrick discuss International Migratory Bird Day & Dr. Majure says yea or nay to table food for pets!
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Excerpt (33:03) | Air date 04/26/12Guest, Matt Smith, talks about the interesting techniques of home building by eagles, beavers, & spiders!
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Excerpt (53:45) | Air date 04/19/12John Davis and Libby talk about mosquitoes, bed bugs, & the Emerald Ash Borer. Dr. Majure talks about adopting pets!
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Excerpt (53:13) | Air date 04/12/12Megan Sewell Fredrick tells what to expect at Nature Fest this year& listeners tell their secret to keeping mosquitoes away!
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Excerpt (53:21) | Air date 04/05/12Adam Rohnke discusses what birds are in Mississippi this time of year! Dr. Majure talks about pets & meds!
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Excerpt (53:30) | Air date 03/29/12Dr. Majure's in the hot seat answering pet questions! Plus,what's the most popular pet in the world? Find out this episode!
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Excerpt (53:00) | Air date 03/22/12Falconer, David Hall, tells us all about the "sport of kings" and Dr. Majure tells how to housetrain your pet effectively!
Pet Gallery
Send us a picture of your pet and they'll be displayed in our gallery, like the Louvre for fur and feathers. Take the tour.
BACK TO TOPAmphibians!
Salamanders and frogs, do you know what's in your backyard? Check out these photographs, taken by Tom Mann, a zoologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife.
BACK TO TOP- Pet Day & Pet Name Stories! (05/17/12)
- Here, Lizard Lizard! (05/10/12)
- Migratory Bird Day & Pet Nutrition (05/03/12)
- Home, Sweet Animal Homes! (04/26/12)
- Scary Insects! (04/19/12)
- Nature Fest! (04/12/12)
- Spring Migration! (04/05/12)
- Pet Day w/Dr. Majure! (03/29/12)
- Falconry & Pet Housetraining (03/22/12)
- Introduced Insects & Pet Allergies! (03/15/12)
- All About Your Pet Day (03/08/12)
- The Secret Life of the American Woodcock & Pet Behavior Problems (03/01/12)
- Aldo Leopold and Pet Shedding (02/23/12)
- Fossils and Pet Obesity (02/16/12)
- Frog Calls and Pet Stress (02/09/12)
- Fish and Pet Dental Health Month (02/02/12)
- Family Fun Science Night & Wildlife Experiences (01/19/12)
- Sturgeon (01/12/12)
- Dive! Dive! Dive! (12/08/11)
- Mississippi's Deer (12/01/11)
- Pets and Raptors (11/17/11 Image: Liz Noffsinger / FreeDigitalPhotos.net)
- Migrating Aquatic Life (11/10/11)
- Pet Day and Microchip Identification (11/03/11 Image: Vlado / FreeDigitalPhotos.net)
- Pets and Creepy Insects (10/27/11 )
- Pets and Archaeology (10/20/11)
- Pets and Birds of Prey (10/13/11 Image: Tina Phillips / FreeDigitalPhotos.net)
- Pets and Horseshoe Crabs (09/29/11)
- Pets and Frogs (09/22/11 Photography by BJWOK / FreeDigitalPhotos.net)
- Wild Turkey (09/15/11)
- Pets and Wetlands (09/08/11)
- Pets and Hummingbirds (09/01/11)
- Cicadas (08/25/11)
- Pets and The Mississippi River (08/18/11)
- Frogs in Pop Culture (08/11/11)
- Fish: Food for Thought (08/04/11)
- Pet Show (07/28/11)
- Can you bear the bears? (07/21/11)
- Pets and Fossils (07/14/11)
- Birds and Pets (07/07/11)
- Pet Show (06/30/11)
- Turtles (06/23/11)
- Pets and Volunteering Opportunities at the Museum (06/09/11)
- Snakes and Pets (06/02/11)
- Fish and Pets (05/26/11)
- Endangered Species and Your Pet Questions (05/19/11)
- Volunteerism, Weeks Act Celebration, and Your Pet Questions (05/12/11)
- International Migratory Bird Day and Pets (05/05/11)
- Mississippi's Freshwater Resources (04/28/11)
- Birds and Bird Songs (04/21/11)
- Nature Fest and Wildlife in Your Yard (04/07/11)
- Pet and Museum Day (03/31/11)
- Early Birds (03/24/11)
- Oysters (03/17/11)
- Butterflies in Mississippi (03/10/11)
- Walleye (03/03/11)
- Dinosaurs (02/24/11)
- Butterflies (02/17/11)
- Fish and Fishing (02/03/11)
- Fish and Fish Kills (01/27/11)
- Salamanders (01/20/11)
- Frogs (01/13/11)