On the season finale of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Denise Herman, founder and head trainer of The Empire of the Dog. Celia and Denise talk about high-tech pet toys and recap Celia's favorite Animal Instinct moments as Celia prepares to take a brief break from the show. Be sure to keep in touch and send in topic suggestions, questions, and messages!

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Jen Leemis, Vice President of Marketing at Paradise 4 Paws, a premier resort for cats and dogs located in Chicago, Denver, and Dallas. Jen talks about creating a safe and comfortable space for pets, featuring crate-free boarding and making everything to ensure pets are happy and healthy.

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Ada Nieves is back in the studio! On this week's episode of Animal Instinct Celia talks to Ada about the holiday pet show at Radio City & many more holiday events in the tri-state area!

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This week on Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Miriam Chisholm, one of the founders of New York Farm Animal Save (NYFAS), an all-volunteer group whose mission is to promote the benefits of a vegan, compassionate lifestyle. NYFAS seeks to educate the public through bearing witness, community outreach and education where the main issues are human health, environmental well-being, and the suffering of “food” animals, such as chickens.

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Christopher Gervais, founder and CEO of The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. An award winning producer, Christopher founded the WCFF in 2010 using his life savings to get the organization off the ground and has maintained the operations since then. He is a philanthropic supporter of conservation organizations across the globe.

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined in studio by Garrett Rosso, the creator of the annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade. In addition to his work as a dog trainer, Garrett was one of the founders of Friends of First Run -- the first official dog park in New York City. When not working with dogs, Garrett is an accomplished art director for TIME Magazine. As an animal advocate, he has appeared on ABC, CBS & NBC News, WPIX, Animal Planet and The Today Show. His writing on animal behavior and dog parks appear in "The Bark" magazine. Garrett is the owner and training director of Village Dogworks.

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What do manatees do during dangerous storms? Jenna Golden fills us in on what they do and how they did with the storms that have hit so far. We talk about climate change and its effects on the oceans and sealife. For more information visit: www.savethemanatee.org

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Michael Vecchione. Michael went to sea as a cabin boy on a three-masted schooner at the age of 16. He has been working on the biology, evolution, and life history of cephalopods (squids, octopods, and their relatives) since 1976. As a NOAA employee at National Museum of Natural History, Vecchione is Curator of Cephalopods and a Curator of the Sant Ocean Hall. He has participated in 40 offshore research expeditions, 13 of them as Chief Scientist, studying deep-sea biology.

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This week on Animal Instinct, host Celia Kutcher is joined in the studio by Ada Nieves, a certified pet fashion designer by The Fashion Institute and Technology of NYC. Ada is also co-chair and creative director for the New York Pet Fashion Show, a standing member of the Pet Fashion Professionals Association, and an animal talent manager and pet stylist who has been featured on a number of TV programs.

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Tony Eliseuson of the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s mission is to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. ALDF accomplishes this mission by filing high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, providing free legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal abusers are punished for their crimes, supporting tough animal protection legislation and fighting legislation harmful to animals, and providing resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law.

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, Celia is joined by Ulara Nakagawa and Dr. Keith Lindsay of Elephants in Japan.

In 2015, the story of a solitary, elderly Japanese elephant named Hanako went viral. Dubbed “the loneliest elephant in the world,” Hanako lived and died alone in a concrete jail within a Japanese zoo, having spent the vast majority of her life without a mate and without basic amenities like heating or shade.

Now Ulara Nakagawa, the same person that brought to light the story of Hanako, has created an organization called Elephants in Japan. The organization is working with Dr. Keith Lindsay, a biologist best known for his long-term study of elephants, to research and develop a report that reveals the dire conditions of 14 additional solitary elephants in public and private zoos across Japan.

Elephants in Japan is a humanitarian wildlife group dedicated to providing a better life for extremely lonely, socially-deprived elephants before they suffer the same fate as Hanako. Time is of the essence - since the report began, two of the 14 elephants observed have already died. Three of the remaining 14 elephants live in particularly cruel environments, including the case of Teru, who has been entirely alone since 2000 and is kept in extreme weather conditions.

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