Published inAstronomy Without StarsStarting a PhD: The decisionSo, you got an offer to do a PhD in astronomy. A lifelong dream came true, and you are extremely excited. Three or four years of just…Feb 22Feb 22
Published inThe Bunny YearsCan you count the dogs?Recently social media presented me with a graph that showed the number of dogs in the UK, from 2011 to 2013. According to this graph, the…Jul 7, 2024Jul 7, 2024
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe Year of the Great DaneIt has been a weird year for Bunny. Even for Bunny’s standards of weirdness.Jun 22, 2024Jun 22, 2024
Published inThe Bunny YearsHappy with management and loveNow I’m done with dog trainers, and all there is to do is to forget that the last one managed to get attacked by my dog, and also to make…Feb 4, 2024Feb 4, 2024
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe dog training conundrumRecently I was asked what my dog training philosophy is. I didn’t really know how to answer that, because it’s complicated. My first…Jan 5, 2024Jan 5, 2024
Published inThe Bunny YearsCan I pet your dog?Unsurprisingly, lots of people really want to pet my dog. Petting Bunny is great, and it can absolutely make your day. Most of the time…Dec 22, 2023Dec 22, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe chemical castration: part 1Chemical castration is actually a thing. The dog gets an implant in the neck, which releases a chemical, which makes the dog infertile, but…Nov 26, 2023Nov 26, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsHow the dog learned to playI have always played with dogs. I played with the dogs my parents had, four different boxers, covering four decades of my life. I played…Oct 15, 20231Oct 15, 20231
Published inThe Bunny YearsPsychogeography of a dog villageBeechwalk Park is wonderful. Old trees and chest-high walls surrounding a large grass field, a really large field. Everything is…Jul 23, 2023Jul 23, 2023
The Kleinmachnow lionessI’m writing this in my capacity as Big Cat Consultant, which is not a real job. A bunch of random guys in the United Kingdom like to call…Jul 22, 20231Jul 22, 20231
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe growling debateOne of the frustrating parts of living with a dog is that so many basic aspects in the life of dogs are so poorly understood. Take for…Jul 2, 2023Jul 2, 2023
Published inAstronomy Without StarsThe ten year anniversaryExactly ten years ago I started my first and hopefully last faculty position. Or, as it is called in the UK, ‘teaching staff’, an academic…Jun 19, 20231Jun 19, 20231
Published inThe Bunny YearsTwelve reasons not to get a malamuteLet’s jump right in.May 27, 2023May 27, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe process dogSometimes I think about having a dog that is finished. A dog that I trained a for a while, established routines and rules and boundaries…May 20, 2023May 20, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe English E-collar BanOn April 27th this year, a draft legislation was presented to the House of Commons and House of Lords. The document is a Statutory…May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsDog harness cornucopiaThrough no fault of my own I found myself in possession of approximately a dozen different dog harnesses. Some are for specific types of…May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Impossible problems, one year laterIn January 2022 I wrote a post about the ten problems with my dog that I thought were impossible to tackle. This was almost two years after…Apr 1, 2023Apr 1, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsVorher-Nachher-Bilder*Today I walked with Bunny through the Squirrel Park. It’s just a couple of hundred metres of woodland, along a little burn, with a few…Mar 18, 2023Mar 18, 2023
Published inThe Bunny YearsThe birth of a methodIt’s difficult to tell when a method is born. When a few disconnected routines and bits become a set, a coherent procedure. To call…Feb 7, 2023Feb 7, 2023
