Starting Certified Therapy Dog Training
Become a Therapy Dog Team
By Cynthia J Hinckley
Do you enjoy volunteering and helping others? Are you looking for an activity to do with your sweet, friendly canine companion? The two of you might enjoy becoming a certified Therapy Dog Team and visiting folks in healthcare facilities or helping out in a school classroom or children’s reading program at a public library. Continue reading
Getting Into The Mind of Your Dog
I have often wondered why it is my dog is so smart, unless of course I happen to be shaking my head while calling him a knucklehead. Well, today I decided to call someone in the know, I called Marc Hauser, Ph.D. at the Canine Cognition Lab of Harvard University to learn more about how my dog’s mind works.
It turns out you don’t need to own a Poodle to have a dog that can figure things out for themselves. I, like many others, have always believed that certain breeds were smarter than others. It turns out this may not be true. There are other factors that Dr. Hauser and his team have noticed, including dogs that excel while being run through a series of fun tests/games, which measures the spontaneous thought process of your dog, or a dog’s ability to remember and figure things out for himself.
