#Dog cognition

[doggozila]

(via Dog Aggression: Study Shows Humans Create This Behavior - Doggozila)

[blueboyluca]

I really enjoyed this podcast episode with Dr Clive Wynne. I’ve said before that I find him very compelling to listen to. I loved the way he distinguished between unproblematic and problematic anthropomorphism and for him it’s between emotions and cognition. I also really liked their discussion about dog training and how in the absence of good scientific research on training methods, the right thing is to be observant of our animals’ behaviour and be kind in our training. I would have liked them to discuss ideas like those put forward in Dr Friedman’s paper ‘What’s Wrong With This Picture? Effectiveness is Not Enough’ but I know that’s an essay not a research paper.

[pixierainbows]

Pixie have good bad day, both.

went to plant store today with guardian Librarian ! Pixie really happy get time with guardian Librarian ! and ! also really like go to plant store

Pixie get pretty pretty flower plants !!! and a very happy tomato plant !!!

and ! Pixie look very carefully for to get good plants for guardian Wizard too , who could not go plant store because guardian Wizard have work hard

too late for pictures today but will get pictures later

but also . stranger person just walk right up to Sunshine and petted Sunshine and make Pixie sick …

but is good example of Pixies disabled brain , how Pixie brain move much much too slow to stop people and not can just TELL people afterwards either , Pixie nonverbal, not can speak at all .

guardian Librarian stop other stranger person from doing same .

Pixie very grateful when guardians protect Pixie and Sunshine

and but ... happy new baby plants for play with !!!

[3liza]

grim knows the names of all his toys and very quickly learns the names of various objects and places with only a few repetitions, but his ability to correctly bring you the toy you asked for is completely reliant on his level of focus, which has been an interesting observational demonstration for me of how you can have a 150 IQ, it won't do dick for you if you can't actually utilize your executive function. which I knew, viscerally, but seeing it demonstrated in an animal experiment is something else

[3-aem]

stop telling me facts about gojo—i dont want them Anymore

[spoonie-on-wheels86]

[jrueships]

older white men who have to announce how much they prefer college sports over professional sports & obsess over it kinda creep me out idk

[plounce]

my emoooootional issues and my physical iiiintimacy issuuuues

[erikahenningsen]

NYC isn't a real place because tell my why a City Councilmember just got arrested for biting a cop

[fiendish-illos]

"sic 'em, boys"

[lemememeringue]

ik it's like, , good for mental health but I rly wish my therapist would suggest something other than going to a park

[vampireonastick]

Okay, I’m guessing if Chuuya purposefully didn’t kill Dazai, then this is what he did:

Step 1: He shot the first bullet through Dazai’s shoulder so there would be a bullet behind Dazai.

Step 2: He shot Dazai in the head, but used his gravity powers to stop the bullet the moment it made contact with Dazai’s forehead. This would leave a shallow wound that could be passed off as a bullet hole, but would not be fatal.

(Note, Chuuya would have had a mere fraction of a second to do this, before Dazai’s nullification kicked in, cancelling Chuuya’s ability to manipulate the bullet)

Step 3: At the exact same time Chuuya shot the bullet that hit Dazai in the head, he used his powers to pick up the first bullet (the one shot through Dazai’s shoulder) and used it to make an impact crater on the wall behind Dazai’s head

(This would give the illusion that the second bullet went all the way through Dazai’s skull)

In other words, it’s a magic trick.

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Finding out my senior dog has advanced kidney disease like:

[pondslime]

Ok stupid question but I had to ask BC I love the way you answer things haha 💓💓 (Sorry if that was worded weirdly)

So Jonesy (I think that's the dog's name in House of Wax) from all the Sinclair brothers who do you Jonesy likes the most and who do you think likes Jonesy the best?

it's not weird at all!! now that my HOW brainworms are back, any excuse to ramble incoherently about this dumbass movie and the characters is like. PURE gold. lmao 💀

okay, so imo, vinny is definitely the favorite. the first place where we see jonesy in the movie is in the wax museum and that is def not a coincidence!! they were hanging out!! jonesy just got bored of watching her dad labor over the fine details of the wax titty & wandered upstairs.

they're best friends!! I just know it!! that shot where vincent's turning wade to wax? and jonesy jumps up on the bed? the CUTEST. rip wade 🙏 but?? I adore that sm.

and he takes the puppy w/him when he goes to murder blake & paige. unhinged dog dad behavior if I've ever seen it. I can 100% see them both quietly coexisting in the same space together for hours on end—vincent sculpting and sketching, jonesy napping next to him. padding upstairs in the middle of the night to have a midnight snack. UGH

I v much also subscribe to the line of thinking that lester doesn't live in corpsetown & has a lil shack of his own in the woods. but he absolutely hustles up to the house routinely to bring jonesy weird roadkill snacks and play w/her in the backyard. if anyone in the family is committed to getting her energy out, it's v much him. they're just outside for hours n hours tossing a mangled deer leg around and kicking up dirt. I feel.

as for bo. well. he v much strikes me as the kind of guy who pretends to be fairly ambivalent about the fact they have a dog running around. if jonesy ever stirs up trouble or chews thru smthn, he's the first one to be like, "UH??? it's your fuckin' dog?? I ain't never ask for this??"

v much onery dad energy. he catches vincent giving jonesy some food off his plate and immediately starts talking about how he's spoiling the damn dog and THIS is why she knocked over the garbage can & got coffee grounds and eggshells all over the kitchen floor.

never mind that he's always giving her scraps of whatever random concoction he's eating. she's chowing down on eggo waffles and beef jerky and hostess snacks whenever he's around. but no, it's vincent who spoils her. sure, jan.

he wants a huntin and fishin dog, but he's not much of a hunter or a fisher. so he gets a couch potato that sits next to him while he drinks beer and rewatches old spaghetti westerns. and he totally doesn't care about it or like her. totally.

[doggozila]

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