by Pet Professional Guild Cat Committee | Jul 20, 2016 | Animal Behavior
By Beth Adelman MS My husband and I spent the entire spring laughing every time we saw an ad for the movie Keanu that showed an impossibly adorable kitten dressed up like a gang member. Now we are also laughing …
by PPGWorld | Oct 7, 2015 | Business & Consulting
Drawing empathy into our training practice is so important. As positive reinforcement training is involves multiple choices (such do we shape, capture or lure this behavior? What sort of reward should we choose; food or something else? What is our...
by PPGWorld | Sep 7, 2015 | Animal Behavior, Business & Consulting
While historically empathy has perhaps been seen as a fluffy, feel good emotion with little relevance to science, or science based practice, our lack of empathy has, arguably, led us into the dangerous territory we entered in decades gone by. …
by PPGWorld | Aug 6, 2015 | Animal Behavior, Business & Consulting
Over the last decade there has been an increasing awareness of the need to think, and act, empathically within healthcare settings; this information could be very useful for us. Helen Reiss MD of Harvard Medical School reports a variety of …
