This week's podcast explores human-companion animal communication, beginning with dolittling.

Helping dogs with behavior problems involves human mental adjustment first. Working through this list of human factors that can sabotage behavior change is a good place to start.

What's your immediate response when your pet develops a behavioral problem? How much worrying about it do you?

Does the thought of fulfilling your dog or cat's needs overwhelm you? Maybe technology has an answer--or maybe not.

Does the thought of failure make your feel queasy? Perhaps a more natural view of the process will help.

Do you have a stock response when people ask you what kind of puppy or dog they should get? I used to, but...

Changing problem animal behaviors isn't easy. But for those who stick it out, it's more than worth the effort.

Are sensory perceptions normally separated. Or are sensory perceptions normally a collective response?

I'ts not often that the words "giant rats"and "heros" appear in the same sentence, but here's another case where they hopefully will.

Just because we want our relationships with our dogs to be all-positive doesn't guarantee that they will be.