“As children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror…” – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Viennese physician Franz-Joseph Gall (1758-1828) believed that organs on the surface of the brain…
These individual differences are of the highest importance for us, for they are often inherited, as must be familiar to every one; and they thus afford materials for natural selection to act on and accumulate, in the same manner as man accumulates in any given direction individual differences in his domesticated productions. — Charles Darwin,…
Another example of Brad Pattison’s twisted view of dogs seemed appropriate before the upcoming book review. When is submissive behavior an attempt at dominance? In an episode of At the End of My Leash, Pattison meets a black GSD with some fear-aggression issues that manifested in a lot of barking and some lunging. It also…
Dr. Marc Bekoff has jumped into the Cesar Millan abuse controversy (that there is a controversy baffles me) with an article titled “Did Cesar Millan have to hang the Husky” Dr. Bekoff makes an excellent case and I won’t go into any of the issues he brings up, instead my focus on the comments made…
Trouble-maker Many, many years ago at an obedience event, my Belgian got into a row with a Bouvier. From the moment we reached the site this Bouvier took an immediate dislike to my dog. Because the venue was pretty small, there was no avoiding this dog, but we kept our distance as much as possible.…
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