Scooter looking uncertain about who she is.
https://www.ladailypost.com/content/how-hen-house-turns-dog-psychology The more we give homes to dogs, the more we learn how similar they are to us in the varieties of personality they can exhibit.
Rediscovering Animals
Animal Verbiage
February 15, 2019
Lucy and Bobbi Geese and Turkey2
URL for my Los Alamos Daily Post monthly animal blog
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For the Love of Pigs
November 21, 2018
Getting to know the source of our favorite breakfast meat, bacon, can be a remarkable experience. They are at least as friendly and responsive as most dogs, with a few muddy differences. The story continues in the
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The Owls of Los Alamos
October 25, 2018
Owl Napping LADP photo
PBS recently aired a good review of what we have learned about owls and the local PEEC has a great web site. Owls are the silent ones, the patient ones with a wonderful face that can turn any which way. The story continues in the
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Mental Activity in Animals
September 22, 2018
DeeDee and me with the birds.
Recently we have been learning more and more about the extent of cognizance, awareness, and self-knowledge in the animal mind--all confirmed by our personal experience with domestic animals in our family home in New Mexico.
The story continues in the Los Alamos Daily Post:
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Friendships Between Dogs
August 27, 2018
Sisters--DeeDee and Scooter
A lifetime with dogs illustrates the importance of their friendships. Daily Post
Animal Bonding
July 17, 2018
An article focusing on how animals have related to human beings and their own kind or others. Daily Post
The Value of Sweet Talk
June 18, 2018
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Young fox on a California urban trail
A Silicon Valley fox and a San Andreas Fault Squirrel have one thing in common--they listen to soft human communication.
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Monthly article focuses on animal brains and experience.
May 19, 2018
We are learning a lot about animal emotions. Seems were all cut from similar mental cloth.
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The Power of Awareness--we are not alone and never have been.
January 21, 2018
DeeDee--loyal watchdog for domestic birds
We are only now--in this decade or two--coming to realize that animals share our ability to know ourselves, be conscious, and share a number of mental insights that went unrecognized for way too long. The ancient wisemen did us and the animals a terrible injustice by assuming the latter were simply biological machines without
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