I promised I'd send this out in a blog when it was ready, so here it is for those of you who've been asking for us to do another DVD combo. We put together our two best selling DVDs in a package. Through this Friday the 17th, you can order a PACKAGE of Lost in Translation: How Dogs use Sight, Sound and Scent to Communicate and Treating Dog-Dog Reactivity and save $20. Spoiler alert to those out of the US: ARGH, although Katie has been working non-stop on it for 3 weeks now, we still can't get our new website to manage the postage for international shipping. We've made progress and have hopes (springing eternal) that we can soon, but please be patient. We can't be trying any harder than we are already! MEANWHILE, back on the farm: Lots to tell you on Friday about life on the Read More
Archives for August 2012
Do Other Animals Keep Pets?
A colleague just sent me a link to one of my favorite science and behavior blogs, that of Harold Herzog, the author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals. I use his book in my University class, The Biology and Philosophy of Human/Animal Relationships," because the author is thoughtful, knowledgeable and one of those rare scientists who writes beautifully. If you find the topic interesting and haven't read his book yet, pick up a copy. I highly recommend it. The book includes a section on pets, and his recent blog addresses that issue as well; in this case, whether a video-gone-viral about "Baboons Keeping Dogs as Pets" accurately depicts the relationship between individuals of these two species. If you haven't seen it yet, the Read More
The Ten-Year Anniversary of OEL
I was recently reminded that my first national book, The Other End of the Leash, was published in June of 2002, ten years ago (thank you Lisa). Wow. Ten years. It feels like a long time, and it feels like the years have flown by. Time is like that. There's something about big blocks of time and anniversaries--10 years, 25 years--that helps us to step out of our busy lives and look at the big picture. This feels especially relevant to me now as I work on a memoir. I find myself asking what parts of the book still resonate most for me, and what aspects of the book most relate to what I want to say in the memoir. At the moment there are two things that stand out the most: how understanding the world as best we can from a dog's perspective enriches our relationship, and how dogs are such a Read More