Does anxiety effect animal learning? If so, how? This podcast considers what science and experience can teach about the effects of anxiety on learning.

When you think about animals, do you take a magical or a more mindful approach? Or does it change depending on the situation? This podcast explores these two orientations and how they shape our bonds with our animals and influence our animal's health and behavior.

If you think this is yet another podcast/article about the horrors of ticks, you're in for a surprise.

Proposing animal legislation has become another way for politicians to woo voters. What should you know about these laws?

Can you think of anything you taught your dog or cat to do that you later regretted? Do you think this could never happen to you? This podcast explores both situations.

Does anything cross your mind when you look at this image?  For years, I would have said, "Nope. Not a doggone thing." This week's podcast explores why this benign space-occupying lesion suddenly commanded my attention.

Dog-rental is a topic that generates a lot of opinions, some of them more heated that others. This podcast considers the pluses and minuses of the concept.

We all want to periodically revert to childhood with its lack of responsibility. But when we choose to get an animal, that option disappears. Or it should.

Most of us who had pets as kids periodically long for the companionship of a special dog or cat we remember from our childhood. The temptation to make that memory real may tempt us. But doing so isn't without its problems.

Do you think that canine cognition obviously exists? What about dogs' capacity to experience mental states such as knowledge, beliefs, desire, and imagination, and attribute these to others?