Every month I go through what’s been published in canine science, looking for studies that might shift how we understand our dogs. September had a themer: what is going on in the dog before we see the behaviour. In the brain, in the mood, and even in the body a few seconds before a mistake….
Every month I go through what’s been published in canine science, looking for studies that might shift how we understand our dogs. August brought something I find exciting: researchers are getting better at looking inside the canine mind. Here are the studies that caught my attention this month. What does your dog’s brain see when…
You’ve read 3 articles learning about distraction, duration, and distance separately. Let’s see how they work together If you’ve read the previous articles in this series, you now understand what distraction does to learning, why duration is harder than it looks, and how distance changes the picture. And if you’ve been training with that framework,…
Notes from NUManima 2026 — France’s conference on AI and digital health inveterinary medicine, organized by association Vet IN Tech. I went as an outsider of sorts: a biomedical engineer coming from particle accelerators and medical devices, who ended up building a behavioural tracking tool for dogs, sitting in a room of people who’ve spent…
Two publications map the canine gut microbiome Two teams of scientists from the Dog Ageing Project and Waltham Petcare Science Institute (a research facility of Mars Inc.) have recently published extensive characterizationof the canine gut microbiome. Among others, they were able to show that: These findings will allow scientists to develop food better suited to…
We spent three days in the Gorges du Verdon with our golden retriever Simba – hiking, paddling into the gorge and testing our dog training skills. If you’re planning a trip to the Verdon region with a dog, here’s what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised us. Getting There: Plan the Drive Carefully The highway…
