My monthly commentaries are housed here. This also seems a fitting place to put the quotation that sums up my feelings about human attitudes toward animals so perfectly:
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees therefore a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves, and therein we err, we greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by the man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and more complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
Henry Beston
The Outermost House
(Viking Press, 1972)
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| May |
Companion Animal Learning, Stress, and the Immune Response |
| April |
The Placebo Effect and the Human-Animal Bond: When Nothing is Something |
| March |
Don’t Sell the Bond Short |
| February |
Giving Scientists a Helping Hand |
| January |
Reprising FRATT for the New Year |
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| December |
The Gift of Self |
| November |
At a Snail’s Pace |
| October |
Processed Food for Thought |
| September |
That Restless Time of Year |
| August |
Back-Engineering Mother’s Milk |
| July |
Top Down and Bottom Up Leadership and the Inertia of Success |
| June |
Call of the Wild or Wrong Number? |
| May |
A Peck of Trouble: Farm Animals in Suburbia |
| April |
Squeaking for Joy |
| March |
Mergers and Acquisitions: Combining Human-Animal Households |
| February |
Requiem for Companion Animal Play |
| January |
Individual Life and the Bond |
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| December |
Holiday Cheer |
| November |
Shameless Self-Promotion, Gulp |
| October |
The Genius Loci, the Human-Animal Bond, and Following Atticus by Tom Ryan |
| September |
Animal Headlines |
| August |
Perception and Human-Animal Survival |
| July |
Taking Animals Personally |
| June |
Physically Fit Human-Companion Animal Units |
| May |
Why Animals Do What They Do |
| April |
The Rest of the Story |
| March |
A Trio of Studies with Human-Companion Animal Bond Implications |
| February |
Putting Things Off and Off and Off |
| January |
Resolution: Don't Get Lost in Translation |
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| December |
Holiday Gift-Giving at Its Best for Fans of the Human-Animal Bond |
| November |
A Case in Point |
| October |
Out-of-Context Behavior and the Human-Animal Bond |
| September |
Want to Improve Your Relationships with Companion and Other Animals?
Plant a Garden |
| August |
Blind-Sided Yet Again |
| July |
Blind-Sided: The Dilemma of Contemporary Service Dogs |
| June |
The Bond: More Than What We Want |
| May |
Blasphemous Thoughts |
| April |
Turkeys, Dogs, and Presence |
| March |
Rescue: Lasting Salvation or Quick Fix? |
| February |
Wolves in Our Parlors, Dogs in Our Minds |
| January |
A Universal Human-Companion Animal Bond Resolution |
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| December |
Free Holiday Gifts for Pets and Their Owners |
| November |
Read this Book! Inside Animal Hoarding: The Case of Barbara Erickson and Her 552 Dogs |
| October |
A Return to Inconvenient Truths and Fantastic Opportunities |
| September |
Eating My Words: Redefining the human-companion animal bond—again |
| August |
Animal Health and Behavior and the Vista Effect |
| July |
Financial Hardship and the Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| June |
Companion Animals as Targets of Impolite Human Comments |
| May |
A (Sorta) Book Review of One Nation Under Dog |
| April |
The Behavioral Bait and Switch |
| March |
When No Means Yes and Don’t Means Do |
| February |
Full-Spectrum Animal Awareness |
| January |
The Ultimate Pet-Related New Year’s Resolution |
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| December |
Less Can Be More: Inexpensive Gifts to Enhance Human-Companion Animal Relationships |
| November |
Day of Reckoning: Frica Louise Gets Spayed |
| October |
Elevating Your Animal From a Problem to an Individual |
| September |
A Theory of Animal Mind |
| August |
The Helmsley Multibillion Dollar Trust for Dogs: A Good Time for a Change |
| July |
The Sound of Two Paws Clapping |
| June |
Fat Cats and Top Dogs: Animal Behavior and the Business World |
| May |
Interstate Shipment of Companion Animals for Adoption: A Win-Win Proposition or Something Else? |
| April |
Animal Addiction: Too Much of a Good Thing? |
| March |
In Praise of Whittington, the Cat |
| February |
Hormones, Miracles, and Companion Animals |
| January |
Artistic Endeavors and Companion Animals |
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| December |
Sleeping in Heavenly Holiday Peace |
| November |
Some Tricks About Treats for the Holiday Season |
| October |
The BeeBee Chronicles: The Saga Begins |
| September |
Test and Label: Companion Animal Evaluations Revisited |
| August |
Buyer Beware: An Update on Quality Pet Selection |
| July |
Companion Animals as Teachers |
| June |
Canine Learning: Why our best sometimes needs to be better |
| May |
Hop to It? Quality versus Quantity Exercise |
| April |
Why Study Animal Behavior? |
| March |
Companion Cats and Seasonally Affective Orders |
| February |
Charlotte's Tangled Web |
| January |
Pandas, Manatees, and Companion Animals: Peas Caught in a Human Pod |
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| December |
The Very Best Holiday Pet Gift Ever! |
| November |
Animals as Therapy: Therapy for Whom? |
| October |
Good-by Leadership, Hello...IPIM? |
| September |
Young Kids and Cats: Adding Claws and Other Feline Qualities to the Mix |
| August |
A Recipe for Human-Canine Disaster: When Dogs Speak "Dog" to Infants and Young Children |
| July |
Infants, Toddlers, Dogs, and the Human-Animal Bond |
| June |
Animal Learning and Teaching Theory Doggy Style |
| May |
Less Than Picture Perfect: When Our Beliefs About Health Undermine Our Pets' Behavior |
| April |
Flat and Round, Fat and Thin: Human Beliefs and Companion Animal Weight |
| March |
Tipping Points and The Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| February |
Wild About the Wild Model |
| January |
Thoughts on Studies Comparing Species Intelligence |
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| December |
True Animal Rights: The gift that keeps on giving |
| November |
Reproductive Emotions and the Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| October |
Hurricane Katrina and the Celebration of Companion Animal Survivors |
| September |
Spay, Neuter, and Cancer: Revisiting an Old Trinity |
| August |
More Than Love: Striking the Balance Between Emotion and Knowledge in Human-Companion Animal Interactions |
| July |
The Bully Pulpit: Getting the Politics and Emotion Out of Animal Legislation |
| June |
Pets As Family Members - Elevation or Demotion? |
| May |
A Pet Like No Other - The Quest for Novelty and Human-Animal Bond |
| April |
The Purpose-Oriented Owner Part IV: Becoming an Effective Advocate for Your Pet |
| March |
The Purpose-Oriented Owner Part III: Defining and Reconciling Human and Animal Goals |
| February |
The Purpose-Driven Pet Owner, Part II: When Process Overshadows Purpose |
| January |
The Purpose-Driven Pet Owner, Part I: Purpose-Driven Nature |
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| December |
Stillpoints and the Human-Animal Bond |
| November |
Human and Animal Time: Getting Into the Swing of Things |
| October |
The Affection Connection |
| September |
Pariah Cats and the Human Penchant for Redefining Animal Behavior to Meet Human Emotional Needs |
| August |
No Regrets: Violet the Wonderdog, February 11, 1990- June 25, 2004 |
| July |
The Art of Serene Nothingness and the Human-Companion Animal Bond: Part III |
| June |
The Art of Serene Nothingness and the Human-Companion Animal Bond: Part II |
| May |
The Art of Serene Nothingness and the Human-Companion Animal Bond: Part I |
| April |
Echoes of Animal Roots |
| March |
My Dog, Myself; Myself, My Dog |
| February |
Faith and the Human-Animal Bond |
| January |
Coming Full Circle |
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| December |
End of the Year Thoughts While Bathing Dogs |
| November |
The Reality of Behavioral Pain |
| October |
Puppy Play Groups, Doggy Daycare and Dog Parks:
The Best of Canine Times or the Worst? |
| September |
Multidisciplinary Meetings and the Human-Animal Bond |
| August |
Human Relationships, Pets, and the Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| July |
Advanced Directives ("Living Wills") for Pets |
| June |
The Human-Animal Bond and Addiction |
| May |
Patterns in Animal Behavior and the Human-Animal Bond |
| April |
The Human-Animal Bond, Birds, and Spring |
| March |
Fighting, Football, and Animal Behavior |
| February |
From Whence Cometh the Human-Animal Bond? |
| January |
Words of Wisdom for Animal-Lovers |
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| December |
Pet Gifts for the Holiday Season |
| November |
Lao-tzu and the Human-Animal Bond |
| October |
Behavioral Jargon: Enough Already! |
| September |
Animal Behavior, Learning, and Playfulness |
| August |
Ruminations About Fighting Like Cats and Dogs and Dogs as Man's Best Friend |
| July |
Timid Cats, Timid Dogs, and the Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| June |
Unconditional Love, Trans-Conditional Love, and the Human-Companion Animal Bond |
| May |
Owner Loss and the Human-Feline Bond |
| April |
The Human-Canine Bond and Owner Loss |
| March |
A Twinkling Revisited |
| February |
In a Twinkling of An Eye |
| January |
The Human-Animal Relationship in Troubled Times |
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| December |
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