#animalfiction

Louie [spelt Louis in the book] is a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena.

Rita Mae Brown, author of "Full Cry," reads a short comical passage from her book where two foxhounds speak to each other about their 72-year-old master "Sister" Jane.  The full interview from a 2005 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.

In "Sour Puss: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery," author Rita Mae Brown writes the 14th book in a series where a cat by the name of Sneaky Pie Brown leads the hunt for a killer, this time in a return visit to a small Virgina town called Crozet. This discussion took place on a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California.

Talking feral/anthropomorphic