Behavior Blog
This is a personal collection of handwritten iPad sketch-notes for webinars, science papers, books, and various animal behavior studies. Nerdy stuff.
[posts are still being transferred over from my previous website.]
Behavior Blog

Dog Predatory Behavior and Wellbeing
December 23, 2022 (slightly edited) I am slowly working my way through some of the The HeartDog International Wellbeing Summit videos. First a quote from this blog post (Academy of Dog Trainers) about normalizing predatory...
Dog Predatory Behavior and Wellbeing
December 23, 2022 (slightly edited) I am slowly working my way through some of the The HeartDog International Wellbeing Summit videos. First a quote from this blog post (Academy of Dog Trainers) about normalizing predatory...

Studies about Breed Temperaments and Stereotypes
Dec 20, 2022 Here are my rough notes taken from a American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) summary of a paper by Lindsay Merkham and Clive Wynne. (2017): "Behavioral...
Studies about Breed Temperaments and Stereotypes
Dec 20, 2022 Here are my rough notes taken from a American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB) summary of a paper by Lindsay Merkham and Clive Wynne. (2017): "Behavioral...

People's Perceptions of Dog Welfare
Dec 14, 2022 Notes from a paper by Cobb, Lill, and Bennett that Hal Herzog tweeted about recently with regards to the "Lake Wobegon Effect" of dog ownership. I thought...
People's Perceptions of Dog Welfare
Dec 14, 2022 Notes from a paper by Cobb, Lill, and Bennett that Hal Herzog tweeted about recently with regards to the "Lake Wobegon Effect" of dog ownership. I thought...

Thinking about Street Dogs
July 23, 2022 Many years ago, I received a request to create a poster of Indian Street Dogs ("Streeties") by a Seattle-based rescue group who would take these dogs off...
Thinking about Street Dogs
July 23, 2022 Many years ago, I received a request to create a poster of Indian Street Dogs ("Streeties") by a Seattle-based rescue group who would take these dogs off...

Reading BAD DOG, Multispecies Justice
[First posted on April 8, 2022, with slight edits] Reading BAD DOG: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, by Harlan Weaver. Chapter 1: Interspecies Intersectionality (what Harlan Weaver calls multispecies transformative justice)...
Reading BAD DOG, Multispecies Justice
[First posted on April 8, 2022, with slight edits] Reading BAD DOG: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, by Harlan Weaver. Chapter 1: Interspecies Intersectionality (what Harlan Weaver calls multispecies transformative justice)...

Respondent vs Operant Conditioning
I think the concepts are very clear in this infographic but if people are having trouble with the words, hope this helps: Respondent Conditioning = Classical Conditioning ...
Respondent vs Operant Conditioning
I think the concepts are very clear in this infographic but if people are having trouble with the words, hope this helps: Respondent Conditioning = Classical Conditioning ...