Canine Behavior: Are Some Wolves "Cheaters?"
Why Does Cooperation Go Down When Pack Size Goes Up? Should Game Theory Be Applied to Wolf Packs? One area of great interest in current...
Canine Behavior: How Do Lost Dogs Find Their Way Home?
The Power of Emotion Whenever I pass someone who’s talking on their cell phone, I usually hear one of two things: “Where are you?” or...
Canine Behavior: Why Do Dogs Mark Their Territory?
The simplest answer is they don’t. The Concept of Territory Is Fairly New The idea that dogs mark their territory is a myth, a fable, an...
4 Levels of Emotional Trauma in Dogs
Bruised, Wounded, Injured and Damaged Two things came up this week which prompted this post. First, a member of the Natural Dog Training...
Canine Behavior: Understanding the Predatory Sequence
Are Obedience Behaviors in Dogs Based on the Hunting Behaviors of Wolves? Wolves Exhibiting Parts of the Predatory Sequence In mammalian...
Dog Behavior: How Do Some Dogs Know the Names of All Their Toys?
Is the Urge to Bite the Key to Canine Intelligence? Bite-ables vs. Comestibles In his 1994 book The Intelligence of Dogs, Dr. Stanley...
Dog Training in New York City: Do Puppy Classes Create Learning Deficits? Part 2
Are Dog Trainers Putting Too Much Pressure on Puppies to Learn Obedience Too Soon? “I have spent the past few years puzzling over why dog...
Canine Behavior: Do Dogs Have a Theory of Mind?
If Dogs Can’t Think, How Do They Know What We’re Thinking? Dogs are amazing animals. They have an ability to read us like no other...
Canine Behavior: Why Do Dogs Pull on the Leash?
A Common Behavior in Dogs, Seen From a Neo-Freudian Perspective Originally Published on June 1, 2010 at PsychologyToday.com. I was...
Dog Training in New York City: How to Cure Dominance in Dogs
3 Simple Steps to Curing Stress-Related "Dominance" in Dogs A Doggie Stare Down In a 2013 blog post on his PsychologyToday.com, Games...
