Summer Break / Summer Reading

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By Zazie Todd, PhD

Companion Animal Psychology Blog is taking a summer break. Meanwhile, on twitter and facebook we continue to share links to the best writing about companion animals and their people. Why not join us?

If you’re looking for some summer reading (and listening and viewing), these are some of our favourites:

We’re delighted that some CAPB stories now appear in Pacific Standard, including Dog Training, Animal Welfare and the Human-Canine Relationship 

 

Can Playing with your Cat Prevent Behavior Problems? Mikel Delgado investigates.

Wild behaviour: The science of cats in boxes is explored in this Human Animal Science podcast with Sandra McCune.

We can’t resist this video from Japan of a cat falling asleep on a watermelon. 

 

What the pug is going on? by Mia Cobb at Do You Believe in Dog.

The First Thing to Teach Your Puppy by Eileen and Dogs 

Five Things You Can Do to Bite-Proof your Puppy by Anne Springer of Paws for Praise

Fading Food Lures by Lori Nanan at Your Pit Bull and You.

Suddenly It’s Different is a beautiful post by Helen Verte of Love Wags a Tail.

A Contract with Your Dog by Maureen Backman at Mutt AboutTown 

 

Muzzle Up! Presents Muzzle Soccer by The Muzzle Up Project.

In Husbandry for Paws: The Finale Heidi Steinbeck of Great Shakes Dog Training demonstrates how to trim a dog’s nails.  

 

Catch up on SPARCS with Canine Science Summer Camp by Julie Hecht and When science and Dogtraining come together – SPARCS 2014  by Jennifer Cattet.

Can a father’s stressful experiences affect his offspring’s stress system? Jessica Perry Hekman investigates epigenetics.

Finally, every week Malcolm Campbell publishes a list of the best science writing on the web in Morsels for the Mind. There are always plenty of great animal stories. On his own blog, we especially enjoyed Seeing eye to eye – humans, dogs and squid stare across an evolutionary divide 

 

Companion Animal Psychology Blog will be back on 3^rd September.