The dog who is barking is Madonna. Is Madonna a ferocious dog? Is she angry? What do we know about animal anger? What do we know about our own anger?
Giving dogs space to disagree gracefully
What does respectful disagreement look like in dogs. Do we give our dogs opportunity to learn this? We focus so much on teaching dogs how to play, that we forget that healthy social relationships are also about knowing how to decline play and how and when to walk away from it.
Play, love, friendships and rules
Here we have a lovely video of three of the farmies engaged in play. How about a close examination and an analysis.
Chaita and her avatars
At first, she was called the "site dog", who then became Sita or Syta and then the S softened to a Ch, just as our hearts softened for her. Thus she became Chaita and this is her story.
How dogs learn to cope
Our observation on free ranging dogs tell us that that dogs don't have to taught how to cope with fear and do they need external motivation to do so. How and why do dogs cope with fear.
