Photo Credit: mikeywally via Compfight cc In spite of the spotlights shining down at the podium, I could make out her face through the dimly lit houselights: a young woman—maybe twenty years old – standing in the fourth row [...]
The Obama family welcomes a new puppy (Photo: Pete Souza/White House, via AP) Animals and New Year’s Resolutions - Psychology Today Perhaps we should turn to our dogs and cats to remind us what’s most important. Here are [...]
Willie the donkey and Sukari, a Masai giraffe. (Photo: Robin Schwartz for The New York Times) Alex Halberstadt has published this in-depth look at the world of zoos in The New York Times Magazine. Here is an [...]
A morning stroll in November’s chilly winds... (Photo by Vint Virga)
Remember this little Bennett’s wallaby from August? Here he is in his momma’s pouch two... (Photo by Vint Virga) Here he is months later... (Photo by Vint Virga) And here he is on the [...]
A good day for getting cozy indoors like Willie (a two-toed sloth). Photo by Vint Virga
Back to the comforts of home and rounds at one of my favorite zoos. Photo by Vint Virga
In Boulder with Marc Bekoff, getting started on the next book. Photo by Vint Virga
Breakfast on the shore before heading into the studio. Photo by Vint Virga
Peeking out for the first time! (Bennett’s wallaby joey) Photo by Vint Virga
This animal might be hunted to extinction before you’ve even heard of it. Photo Credit: Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program
My Sunday morning zoo rounds Photo by Vint Virga
The paperback of The Soul of All Living Creatures launches today.
… and now the sun breaking through after the storm. Photo by Vint Virga
With all the rain driving down and warnings of flash floods, hope we don’t end up this deep under water. Photo by Vint Virga
Virga says that animals in zoos, like this lion, need to have a bit of control over their environment. (Photo & caption via NPR) In a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Vint discusses how house cats, [...]
In the November issue of Deep Roots Magazine… Photo © Robin Schwartz
A cooling, fresh drink on a hot summer day … on my rounds through the zoo. Photo by Vint Virga
Captain Hammer sits in the old gum tree … even more enthralled with him than he is with me. Photo by Vint Virga
2014 Nautilus Award The news came while in the giraffe barn at Dallas Zoo… The Soul of All Living Creatures is a Winner of the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award.
Man’s Best Therapist A wonderful review of The Soul of All Living Creatures in the latest issue of Animal Sheltering“Part animal primer, part detective tale, part existential treatise…”
A blast of early spring chill on Mount Monadnock this weekend. Photo by Vint Virga
Chilling rain this weekend (and even snow in the mountains) … still a wonderful time reading at the Newburyport Literary Festival. Photo by Vint Virga
Rain and fog greeted us the day we went up to hike the crater of Haleakala. Sunshine in the canopy on the lower slopes a couple of days later. Photo by Vint Virga
A Menagerie, the fall issue of Conjunctions was released today. Thrilled my piece, The Snow Leopard’s Realm, is in such masterly company.
A stunning review of my book, The Soul of All Living Creatures, in the current issue of In Mind Magazine
It’s been a good while since I’ve cared for a great horned owl. Meet Joe. Sensitive. Reserved. Majestic. Photo by Vint Virga
Who listens to you best? Why would we share our secret hopes and fears with an animal more than a friend? Photo from Psychology Today Blog Back home in my office at long last! Figured out a way [...]
I’m often asked in interviews how it can be certain animals have souls. Among the reasons I offer, I try to explain how each creature with whom I work has a unique identity — their personality, temperament, what brings them [...]
The podcast of my interview on Think with Krys Boyd - NPR / KERA. Hour 1: How can the connections we forge with animals teach us about ourselves? We’ll talk this hour with veterinarian and animal behaviorist Dr. Vint Virga, author of “The [...]
TheDodo.com, a new animal website, promises to philosophically explore our relationships with animals. I’ll be joining their founding team of bloggers. Photo form TheDodo.com
The Rain Room at MOMA — fantastic! Photo by Vint Virga
Our guests at breakfast this morning… Photo by Vint Virga
What a view from A Voce while at lunch with my editor and agent! Wonderful week launching the book! Photo by Vint Virga
Can animals make us more human? Martha Plimpton and I discuss. In this audio link, Martha Plimpton and I consider the inner lives of animals and the relationships we forge with them on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show.Is there [...]
My first Psychology Today blog post is online today. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-soul-all-living-creatures/201307/the-animal-within-us
The Soul of All Living Creatures made Apple’s “Hot In July” booklist!
A very nice item on The Soul of All Living Creatures in the latest issue of Real Simple ( July 2013, page 4 ).
The first printing of the book arrived today — such a good feeling to leaf through the pages with the book in my own hands. Photo by Vint Virga
The coyotes are really howling tonight, just a few hundred yards from my window in the woods. Photo by Vint Virga