Blogs for people interested in pets and their humans, today, in history, and in different parts of the world
Dog Behaviour, Evolution and Cognition by Adam Miklosi, OUP Oxford; 2nd edition (2015) Adam Miklosi leads a pioneering team in Hungary which has been studying dog-human social interactions, using an ethological approach, since 1994. The original head of the research team, Vilmos Csanyi, surprised his colleagues, who were then studying fish, by telling them about…
Missed Connections: How useful is Brian Hare’s ‘Genius of Dogs’ for people interested in dog training?
And other companion dogs, it’s not “just” for Spaniels and Labradors! But I’m not interested in shooting? If your dog is reactive to other dogs and people; or generally over excitable; or will run off after cats, squirrels and rabbits, then there’s a lot that you can derive from the skills that traditionally have been…
About ten years ago further down my road there lived a little Cairn terrier called Fraggle. He was quite an attractive looking dog, but he was very much a little dog with a lot of attitude who would bark angrily at other dogs as he passed them on his walks. One day, while he was…