I was 10 years old when I poisoned the family dogs. By that age I had decided my older brothers were doing it wrong; they never kept to a fixed schedule. I figured since mom always fed the family at the same time, the dogs deserved the same treatment and I took over the responsibility.…
Most people realize that being deeply engaged in a task means they are more likely to miss irrelevant (to that task) stimuli and that in order not to miss it they have to amp up the stimulus – make it louder, brighter, bigger, more intense. The brain – human, canine, feline, murine, etc. – has…
I was planning something else, but I finally opened this month’s issue of the HHMI Bulletin and this article was too good not to share. It is a wonderfully accessible article that explores the difference between eating for pleasure and eating to satiate hunger, and they are not as different as one would imagine. In…
Science and Dogs 