Do placebos exist, and can they benefit pets and the bond we form with them? That depends on whether you consider yourself among those who perceive placebos as ancient myths believed by weak-minded folk, or are among the growing population of scientists who recognize this effect as real.
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Do you get human-training lessons from your dogs? I get such lessons from my dogs and they never cease to amaze me.
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At this time of year, weeds filled with bees dominate the landscape and create a moral dilemma for me. So much of a dilemma that I dedicated a podcast to it in hopes that the solution would come to me.
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How do you feel about selfness and otherness as it relates to the human-animal bonds you form with your pets? This podcast considers that subject with help from a jellyfish and a snail.
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On-line surveys companion animal behavior and bond surveys can teach us a lot, but some pose data-collection challenges too.
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What do speciesism, sentience, and the human-nature bond share it common? It turns out, quite a bit.
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Did I mean animal voodoo communication instead of animal do-do communication? No, but animal do-do communication does confer its own special magic on all kinds of wild and domestic animals. Even chickens, rats, and little Ollie.
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The co-evolution of dogs and humans is a recurrent theme of mine, but where does the evolution of domestication fit in? This podcast resulted from my ruminations on that subject in my favorite think tank: the great outdoors. The more I thought about it, the more outrageous and yet somewhat logical my thoughts seemed to me. I’ll let you decide…
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Companion dog hubris is alive and well withing the American pet-owning community. But this podcast explores the relationship between a tribe of Native Americans and their free-roaming dogs, one far more ancient than the kind most of us have with our pets.
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Companion animal ick is also known as pee, poop, barf, farts, and perceived deviant sexual behaviors. Consequently, it’s a subject that generates more than its share of mixed human responses.
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