When I was editing this podcast, I realized it also includes one disservice and a behavioral phenomenon of interest (I hope) that may occur in domestic animals which I failed to mention when I recorded it. The disservice was to my dogs for focusing primarily on the cat’s ancient repertoire when their own “divide and confuse” strategy is pretty ancient too.
The behavioral phenomenon I failed to point out is how the dogs’ strategy—moving to opposite sides of the perceived threat—was a display that also occurred in the cat’s behavioral repertoire. In wild canine and feline species living in environments that support cooperative hunting of larger prey, the behavior involving 2 animals to avoid a single predator gets adapted and refined for this new use.
Here’s a picture of my partially made bed and the bench at the bottom of it. The bed is minus its decorative pillows because the cat is behind the pillow on the right and the dogs are trying to get to him. 🙂
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