Learning from Real Dogs
I read a lot of academic studies of dogs. My students often enjoy dissecting these studies and figuring out better ...
Teaching Thinking Dogs
A study that was published recently by an Oregon State University researcher compared wolves with dogs … and ...
Working Dogs Want to Have Fun, Too
Off-duty working dogs enjoy many of the same dog sports as pet dogs … but training for and competing with a ...
Get Healthy, Get a Dog
I was excited when I read about Get Healthy, Get a Dog, a new report from the Harvard Medical School that ...
Wanna Play?
Humans and dogs love to play together; from recent research, it seems that this shared love for play has been a ...
The Nose Knows
A well-known test devised in 1970 by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. is used to determine whether an animal ...
Very Clear on the Concept
Jana started learning concepts and putting things into categories way back when she was a puppy, before Chaser was ...
Are We Dogs’ Best Friends?
My blog is called The Thinking Dog, so it doesn't take a canine Einstein to figure out that I take dogs’ thinking ...
May Your Bowl Always Be More Than Half-Full
Can dogs be optimists? Pessimists?
Many people see dogs as natural optimists. After all, dogs are very loving and ...
The Dignity of Being an Individual
By Pamela S. Hogle
It’s hardly a new idea: Treat dogs as individuals.
In 1963, Clarence Pfaffenberger wrote a ...