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Showing posts with label animal cognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal cognition. Show all posts
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Mr. and Mrs. Dog

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Transparency: The author of Mr. and Mrs. Dog and I are personal friends. I am quoted once, in the chapter "Behaviorism." ...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Making Lemonade

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I partner with English shepherds in my work.  I breed and raise them to be as intelligent as possible -- no prudent stops on cognition, desi...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

The Pupdorf School

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Conquer Mount Mulcherest or memorize the state capitals? In face of the -- pardon me -- frakking absurd claim from a throne of authority * ...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Base Seven

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One of the gospels of dog breeders who make a good-faith effort to do right by their puppies is the popular " Rule of Sevens ." No...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

It Takes a Pack to Raise a Puppy, Part I: Uncle Cole

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A great mother gets a puppy -- or a whole mob of them -- off to a great start. But it's not natural that she should have to do it alo...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bye Bye Baby(hood)

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With the appearance of all their tiny peepers over the weekend, the Roseannadannas are officially no longer neonates. They've now ent...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Brain Breakfast

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Old wive's white-coats' tale -- you can't teach a puppy anything before his eyes open. No less a pair of authorities than Scott...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Not Your Stick

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Ernie about to be introduced to a hitherto obscure Law of Nature Cole has taken on our latest foster, young Ernie, as an interesting project...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Job Application

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A friend's account of a puppy at the shelter where she volunteers brings back a story. This is Goose. He's at B.A.R.K. in Billings,...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Take Two, They’re Small

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It was a great compliment to a newly-minted dog handler to be asked by my training mentor to evaluate a litter of puppies to identify the se...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Word for Puppy is Blue Bear

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When Hope and the four Indiana Plague Puppies first arrived, Cole did not know what to do with them. Well, Hope was no problem. They said ...
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