By Zazie Todd, PhD
It’s been a busy year! It ends alongside the tidings that my post The Ultimate Dog Training Tip has won the Captain Haggerty Award for best domestic dog preparation mass or article inward the Dog Writer's Association of America awards. And I was honoured that was 1 of 3 finalists for Canada’s Favourite Science Blog. As well, I immediately induce got a weblog at Psychology Today, Fellow Creatures.
During the year, I was thrilled to interview Lee Dugatkin most his novel mass alongside Lyudmila Trut, How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog), in addition to Christy Hoffman most her inquiry on domestic dog rivalry in addition to how to increase shelter adoptions. Kristy Benson, Gina Bishopp in addition to Jane Gething-Lewis induce got all contributed the Train for Rewards weblog party was a huge lot of fun inward promoting the purpose of reward-based preparation methods for dogs (and cats!) – give thank you lot you to everyone who took part.
Over the summer, the t-shirt raised $1048 for the animals at the BC SPCA Maple Ridge. Thank you lot to everyone who bought one! If you lot missed out, don’t worry equally they are available in 1 trial again for a express time.
The Book Club has read 10 books this year. I’ve enjoyed them all; my personal favourites were Being a Dog past times Alexandra Horowitz in addition to How to Tame a Fox past times Lee Dugatkin in addition to Lyudmila Trut. I also rattling much enjoyed revisiting Plenty inward Life is Free past times Kathy Sdao.
These were the most pop posts of 2017 on .
1. People mistakenly intend anxious dogs are relaxed roughly baby.
2. The ultimate domestic dog preparation tip.
3. What is positive penalisation inward domestic dog training?
4. Extra early on socialization for puppies makes a big difference.
5. Dominance preparation deprives dogs of positive experiences.
6. How to brand the basis improve for dogs.
7. The pet people to follow inward 2017.
8. The sensitive menses for socialization inward puppies in addition to kittens.
9. New literature review recommends reward-based training.
10. What sort of scratching post utilisation cats prefer?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 exceptional bring upwards goes to how to brand the basis improve for cats, which would sure induce got made this listing if it had been posted a few days earlier; it missed the piece of job past times 10 past times a whisker.
Thank you lot to everyone for your back upwards in addition to encouragement throughout the year, in addition to of course of report for all the many shares! Special thank you lot to all of you lot who generously shared photos of your adorable pets on my weblog (you tin flame meet those photos here, here and here). Thank you lot to Rummy Evans of how to brand the basis improve for dogs). And exceptional thank you lot to my agent, Trena White, in addition to to Greystone Books.
Wishing you lot all a rattling Happy New Year!
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Zazie Todd, PhD, is the writer of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy
. She is the founder of the pop weblog , where she writes most everything from preparation methods to the human-canine relationship. She also writes a column for Psychology Today in addition to has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article inward 2017. Todd lives inward Maple Ridge, BC, alongside her husband, 1 dog, in addition to ii cats.Useful links:
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Photo credits: Main photo: otsphoto; 1. brickrena, 3. JJPhotographer, 4. Sarai da Silva, 9. Duncan Andison (all Shutterstock); 6. Bad Monkey Photography.
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