
Protected Contact at Home: Creating Safe Spaces for Pets and People
Content warning: This blog includes brief discussions of aggressive behavior toward humans. When I was a young intern during my undergrad years, my cubicle
Content warning: This blog includes brief discussions of aggressive behavior toward humans. When I was a young intern during my undergrad years, my cubicle
It’s a beautiful spring day and I’m sitting at the Firefly Coffee House finishing my house-made bagel with peach spice cream cheese schmear (yes, it
If you’ve been around for long enough, you’ll already know that enrichment is about outcomes. And if you don’t already know that, hi, welcome! When
You know that social media meme that’s like “you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…” then cuts to an increasingly chaotic series
It’s 7am on a blustery December day and Petey the Wondermutt has a very important 8am appointment for a jaunt in the woods. I can
Picture, if you will, a mountain with a perfectly round base. It juts up out of the pastoral farmlands of New Zealand’s North Island, surrounded
Petey the Wondermutt climbs a small tower of tires and nudges some rocks around with his snout, inhaling deeply. “Be careful, bud,” I tell him
We know that safety (being protected from harm) and security (FEELING protected from harm) are both categories of enrichment. As someone who lives with a