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: Why Do Some Dogs Act Sneaky When "Stealing" Food?
If Dogs "Steal" Food Does That Mean They Have a Theory of Mind? I've Got a Case of the Munchies—I Hope No One's Looking... Perspective...
Dog Training in New York City: How to Treat and Cure Resource Guarding
What It Is? What Causes It? How Do You Cure It? What Is Resource Guarding? The behavior commonly known as “resource guarding” is where a...
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: The Difference Between Cats and Dogs (or One of Them)
Why Dogs Love Us Unconditionally and Cats Don’t Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty There’s a cat in my neighborhood who gets taken for a walk...
Dog Training in New York City: Emotional Grounding vs. Mental Stimulation
What Dogs Need Is More Emotional Grounding and Less Mental Stimulation Originally published on May 06, 2016 at The Evolved Dog. I saw an...
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...
An Open Letter to New York Dog Trainers, Part 2
Dog Training For the 21st Century The Law of Effect In a blog post, written last year, Dr. Ian Dunbar wrote: “Edward Lee Thorndike showed...
Dog Training in New York City: Do Puppy Classes Create Learning Deficits? Part 1
How Playing With Your Pup Outdoors Is the Best Way to Develop His Ability to Learn Puppies Are Like Actors I was a film and theater major...
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...
