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Put That Dog on the Ground!
Dogs never cease to amaze me, humans never cease to suprise me! This week, I had my fair share of travelling on trains. After weeks of seclusion spent on books, I was suddenly sent back to the real world, a world full of people. When I think about dogs living in a world of humans -made FOR humans – my mind goes back to Gulliver’s Travels. In Lilliput he feels out of place, the same happens in Brobdingnag (the land of giants): these worlds are not suitable to people of his size. Things are almost identical in the land of the Houyhnhnms, a place dominated by horses who rule on…
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Dog Emotion and Cognition
Earlier in December a friend an I completed a class about dog behaviour offered by Duke University. This was done without leaving our homes, and by attending the lessons (and getting graded!) online, through Coursera.org What is Coursera.org? Coursera is a platform which offers online classes, it basically connects institutions and student. I attended my first Coursera class in 2013, it was Drugs and the Human Brain (by CalTech), a though course with plenty of biochemistry, neuro transmitters, neuronal pathways and so on. I picked this class as I wanted to know more on the effects of drugs described for dog behavioural problems in dogs. I ended up learning a…
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