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Using animal symbols to spread misinformation has been a common human activity for thousands of years. But does it work for the animals?

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Making the training-ethology mental transition may be the most challenging part of changing to an ethological approach to help our animals.

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Few studies have shaped my understanding of companion animal behavior and the bond as much as the decades long Russian Farm Fox study.

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What do naked mole rats, dogs, cats, have in common? Many people most likely would say, not a darn thing. But that's not the case.

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Do wild animals display social distancing and other self- and group-protective behaviors when contagious diseases occur?

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This podcast celebrates Retro-Thanksgiving, a perfect celebration for those of us separated from our loved ones Thanksgiving 2020.

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Never heard about doomscrolling and its effect on companion animal behavior? Tune in to this podcast to learn more about this subject.

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Because Halloween signals the start of the holiday season for many, it's a good time to think about tricky treats for dogs and cats.

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Most of us don’t think of pet cats and dogs as they relate to landraces. But that could change as time goes on.

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What is the fundamental role of companion animal problem-solving? What help do they get in this regard from us? Tune in to learn more.

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Animals and science inevitably will inspire the creation volumes of first but not last words on related subjects. Like Monique the elk...

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When summer gives way to fall here in rural NH, the resident companion animals succumb to the migration effect.

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Using energy to decode animal behavior makes analyzing problem displays much easier. Once I learned that lesson, everything fell into place.

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Think of going au natural in a changing environment as a local phenomenon. A very local phenomenon. One that happens around your own home.

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What does normalizing the bond in abnormal times mean? When the COVID-19 quarantine began, the answer seemed obvious. Now, I'm not so sure.

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Cats aren’t little dogs, but that doesn’t mean that no domestic canine-feline behavioral overlap occurs. We ignore this at our peril.

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This week’s podcast presents a brief update of human-animal-planet news. It reminds us that there's a more complex world out there than ours.

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Animal interactions may play a critical role in times of human crisis. Some of these may trigger profound changes in the quality of the human-companion animal bond.

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Would you kill an animal messenger? Especially if the animal's behavior said something about your own behavior that made you feel inadequate? 

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An epiphany regarding the nature of the evolving bond in a dynamic human-animal world hit me like a ton of bricks when I gave my dog a bath.

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