Meandering With Myrn

Human habitat destruction paradoxes take surprising forms. Like human habitat destroyers and preservers working together to help endangered species.

This podcast explores some of the most common training mistakes that can contribute to problem behaviors that I've encountered during my career. Often those who made these mistakes became so wrapped up in what a particular training approach said about them, they lost sight of what  it and they were communicating to their dogs.

Writing  this month’s commentary about equine learning got me thinking more about how inductive and deductive learning plays out in dogs and cats.

What do you think about when you think about feline social intelligence?

Do behavioral seizures occur in companion animals, specifically in dogs and cats? This podcast considers this possibility and the challenges diagnosing and treating such seizures present.

Do you catastrophize animal behavior and the human-animal bond? This podcast compares the effects of castastrophizing on wild and domestic animals and the quality of the bonds that result.

The human-vulture-dog bond does exist as does the human-vulture-rat bond; but what about the human-vulture-dog-rat bond, the subject of this week's podcast? It, too, is real and rather scary for reasons that may surprise you.

While many people think about daffodils, robins, and mud season in early spring, I think about chronobiology, animal behavior, and the bond. This podcast explores a few of the many natural cycles that influence our animal's behaviors and their bonds with us.

How do structured and unstructured animal learning environments affect animal behavior and the bond? Thoughts about that relationship triggered this podcast.

Talk to many dog people long enough and the subject of companion animal cognition and intelligence eventually will come. Most of us are aware of our own animal's cognitive and intellectual ability. But what, exactly, does that mean?