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We are soon going to tape the pilot of a potential podcast and would love some questions from dedicated readers. Each podcast will have an interview with an author or professional of interest (we have Temple Grandin and Karen Pryor lined up first, how fun is that?) and the answers to two to four questions…

As promised, I’m going to write soon about helping dogs with Thunder Phobia (and the very interesting issue of reinforcing fear and/or the behavior that expresses it) , but I couldn’t resist posting a few photos from this morning. Here’s Mr. Will, front and center as usual, as I try to take a photo of…

You know how they say “All’s well that ends well?” But, what if it’s the opposite? We all know that what happens last has a disproportionate amount of impact, and I regret to say that our vacation in Arizona, had, uh, some low points. But after I whine, I’ll get to remind myself of the…

Seriously. I jokingly asked this question at the end of my talk at APDT (more on that in the next post), but although it’s not exactly a burning question related to training and behavior, I still wonder about it. Honestly… what do they think? We collect it and object when they try to eat it.…

I mentioned earlier that I gave a talk at the University of Wisconsin last Saturday during their celebration of Darwin Day (it was his 200th birthday on 2/12, the same day as Lincoln’s 200th birthday). My talk centered on one of his less well-known books, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.  This…

All “back on the farm” today, having fun with my camera this weekend: Maggie and I spent Thursday and Friday in heaven, learning learning learning, at a sheepdog clinic put on by one of my favorite sheepdog instructors, Scott Glen.  I didn’t take many photographs but got lucky with this “money shot” of friend Donna’s…

I suspect I have been classically conditioned from years of school to relentlessly read in fall. Oh yeah, I also love to read. There’s that. This weekend I read How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut. I highly recommend it, with the following caution: The book…

I am truly excited about coming to England this November, where I’ll be speaking in Milton Keynes, Newcastle and Bristol for the The Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors. I’ll be in Milton Keynes the evening of November 5th (Someone explain that name to me! It sounds more like an author than the name of a…

Just a quick post to let locals know that I’ll be giving a talk on December 1st at the Black Earth Library on my animal-behavior focused trips to Africa. I’ll combine the best of my and Jim’s photographs and talk about the adventures of safaris in Kenya, Botswana, Tanzania and Rwanda. We’ll talk about radio-collaring…

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Today is all photos from our trip to Arizona. We just got back, and it was good to be in my home state for a visit. I admit to not wanting to live in the desert any more (too many thorns, too hot in summer, too little green), but there’s nothing like going back to…

Just in case you were wondering why I’ve been a bit quiet… I was kidnapped, but rescued by a bloodhound, so everything is fine. No, that’s not right, that’s a friend’s amusing title to this photo. It’s actually me in rapture with the anti-poaching team at the Ole Pajeta Conservancy in Kenya, on an animal…

Ahhhhhhhhh. We are just back from a ridiculously luxurious vacation on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. National Geographic calls it “the most biologically intense place on earth”, and it just takes a few hours there to understand why. It covers less than a thousandth of a percent of the earth’s surface area, but houses…

One is never supposed to gush. It’s just not done, not if you want to be cool. Luckily, I’ve never been so constrained, so…. wait for it…. I’m going to gush. I’m mid-week into the Natural Encounters Animal Training and Management Workshop with Steve Martin and Dr. Susan Friedman, and my brain is smoking. In…

I’m in a flurry getting ready to leave town for a wedding and our trip to Spain. So I’m putting this out to you, dear readers: What’s on your book shelf? What DVDs are you loving right now? I just starting reading Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of the Octopus, and it’s so good that I…