It’s difficult to tell when a method is born. When a few disconnected routines and bits become a set, a coherent procedure. To call something truly a method, it would have to be tested in various circumstances. For a method of dog training, I would need a few more dogs…

We are in our local park, in the morning. It is mostly empty, we have the whole space for ourselves. What you are watching is basically a very wobbly video of Bunny sniffing around, five minutes of sniffing. At least on the surface this is all there is. The…

I have spent too much time watching dog training videos on Youtube and Facebook. And then I spent too much time testing their ideas on my dog. Therefore, here a quick guide to reject dog trainers out of hand, without further experiments. …

There is only one good way to walk a dog on a leash: The dog has to stay on the side of the human, at all times, with a loose leash, looking faithfully to the owner, and only when the human gives permission, can the dog go and do anything…

Most students write their first real science papers when they are dangerously close to the end of their degree program. There is often little time to rehearse, and a lot of pressure to get it right. This is a terrible combination, which leaves very little space for imagination, creativity, and…

My advice for people who want to rescue or rehome a dog is very concise: Give it time. Lots of time. My dog, as far as I know, had a difficult childhood, some history with abuse, and a frustrating and boring adolescence. He wasn’t raised properly, socialised properly, trained properly…

One of the scientific foundations of dog training is so-called operant conditioning. Going back to Skinner, it’s an extension of Pavlov’s classical conditioning. Operant conditioning means that a dog changes his or her behaviour through reward and punishment. …

March 2022. I finally decide to schedule the surgery for my dog. He has a mass on his left back leg, a growth, benign, as far as we know, but still a growth, and over the past two years it has grown noticeably. He also started licking it obsessively, causing…

The week has 168 hours. Subtracting for each day around twelve hours for sleeping, eating, and other essential parts of life, plus a daily commute, leaves around 80 hours. Over a full year, that’s around 4000 hours that are available. According to my employer’s workload guidance, I am getting paid…