From July 2008  we are changing the way we present Pet Talk Radio!

For the last year or so we have been thinking about what we do and how we are presenting the news and information we provide to pet owners.

We've now produced around 285 hour long radio shows over almost six years non-stop!

But to be honest, without national sponsorship (ie; financial support) of the broadcast version of the show, it is physically and financially very difficult for us to continue in exactly the same way.

The really good news is that our website and iTunes feeds have literally gone 'through the roof' indicating to us that this is a preferred medium for a lot of pet owners. But we've also realised many people just listen to one or two stories of interest or read what we have to say about a story rather than listen to the whole thing. That's fine - we're all a little 'time poor' these days.

So we've started to develop a whole lot of new and innovative ideas that are hard to translate into a 'weekly radio show'. 

Stay tuned to see and hear some of those ideas on this website and in your mailbox. And we'll also be rewarding long-time listeners and website visitors. More on that soon.

With the addition of several new professional writers, we'll also be expanding our written material into a virtual magazine - our web stats show you also love to read about our audio stories and general information pages so we'll be writing more for you. 

This won't be to compete with traditional pet & animal magazines... they too have their role and serve a varied pet & animal loving audience In fact our own sponsors DogsLIFE Magazine and others will play a key role in how we share and distribute stories in future.

We're still looking at stories that involve video. Some will be for the website and some for mainstream television (our bread & butter!) and we'll still be creating the radio show' - just in a revised form.

Strictly speaking it will be a 'podcast'... in fact we used to call them 'petcasts' when we first did an on-line radio show back in 2001 !!

But no matter what name we give it, Pet Talk Radio! is continuing and along with our wonderful Associate Producer Wendy Herne (who by the way is a former newspaper editor!) we hope to soon grow even bigger and better than before.

About Our Feature Story...
Each week - or as stories occur - we'll now be bringing you a 'Featured Story'.

Where our 'old format' show was four or five stories with a pet news, the feature story will either be a stand-alone story or a response from a previous week's story.

And we hope you will also contribute to these stories - just let us know what you are interested in and we'll do our best to follow it up for you.

We'll also be bringing you pet and animal news as we continue our service to Animal Radio in the US via the XM Radio Satellite service. And if you are an Aussie business with international links - we can get you on the XM bird to a potential audience of 8 million subscribers!

But don't forget we have hundreds of hours of archived radio shows with plenty of timeless information for all kinds of pets and animals. 

Just Log-In to the Listener Lounge for instant - FREE access.

Thanks for your continued support - keep in mind that we thrive on your feedback - without it we don't know what you - our listeners and web visitors really want so don't be shy... if it's easier for you just pick up the phone and call (02)8212 3918 or Skype 'pettalkradioau'

Hugs for your pets from Brian & Kaye