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How Pets Benefit Our Brains with RNZ’s Sunday Morning

I spoke with Jim Mora about how pets can benefit people and other new research on dogs and cats. Photo: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock By Zazie Todd PhD I joined Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand’s Sunday Morning to talk about some recent news articles that cover research that finds that pets can have benefits for […]

Starting the Morning | My Shetland

This morning (and possibly every morning) the Minions all came rushing over for their breakfast. Vitamin at the lead and Fivla at the back – she has been slow her entire life. Heads down and eat! Silver finished first – he always does – and therefore exerted his rights to “clean the bowl” (well, that’s […]

Are We Pathologizing Normal Pooch Behaviour? with RNZ’s Sunday Morning

I spoke with Jim Mora about fear and anxiety in dogs. By Zazie Todd PhD  This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. A recent article in The Atlantic says that too many people have dogs and they can’t take care of them […]

More Cat Chat with Radio New Zealand’s Sunday Morning

How cats were domesticated, whether to keep your cat indoors at night, and other cat questions answered. Photo: Anna Pasichnyk/Shutterstock By Zazie Todd PhD This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. Get Companion Animal Psychology in your inbox. On Sunday Morning, I […]

Glorious Morning | My Shetland

A glorious morning (weather-wise) makes up for last week’s debacle.  It really does. However, it does not make up for Newt’s Napoleon complex which is defined as “a domineering or aggressive attitude perceived as a form of overcompensation for being physically small or short.“.  Well, that’s Newt to a tee. Silver is, of course, the […]

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