TV host Jarod Miller
brings 'Wild Encounters'
live to Oneida
ONEIDA - The Oneida Public Library presents Jarod Miller, host of CBS’s summer show “Greatest American Dog” and Animal Planet’s “PetFinder,” and his menagerie of exotic animals in “Wild Encounters” Wednesday, August 13, at 1 p.m. at the Oneida Castle Village Hall, State and First streets in Oneida Castle.
Miller’s “Wild Encounters,” a free show for children 4 years old and up, brings exotic animals from around the world up close so children can learn by seeing them alive as well as by hearing about their habits and habitats.
Miller is a zoologist, an animal trainer and, most recently, the nationally known TV host of “Greatest American Dog,” a new “reality competition show” airing this summer on Thursdays at 8 p.m. over CBS. Miller has also hosted Animal Planet’s “PetFinder” and appeared over a hundred times as a guest on such shows as “The Today Show,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”
In his appearance in Oneida, Miller will be showing a crocodile from the tropics, a swift fox from the American West , a red lemur from Madagascar, a mata mata turtle from Latin America and more exotic animals.
Miller, a professional zoologist with a degree from S.U.N.Y. at Oswego, once served as the executive director of the Binghamton Zoo. In 1996, he started his own wildlife production and education company, out of which comes “Wild Encounters.” Since the age of 10, he has run a wildlife sanctuary in western New York, rescuing and raising animals from around the world.
Because of the library’s limited space, the Oneida Library presents “Wild Encounters” at the Oneida Castle Village Hall, thanks to the generosity of the Village of Oneida Castle.
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