Showing posts with label Jesse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesse. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Monday, June 9, 2014

Render unto Caesar.

P1070030 (Caesar is a 1 year-old Mastiff/Siberian Husky.) P1070085 and unto Zeus, P1060610 P1070331 the things that are Zeus's.

(ADDED: The dog with Zeus in the final frame is Topper, an 8 month-old from Alabama. And in the 2nd frame can be seen Jesse, the growing Golden Retriever pup.  In the 3rd frame is Gus, the chocolate Lab.)

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

“When we study play in dogs, we study ourselves.”

From a May 19 Washington Post article, "In dogs’ play, researchers see honesty and deceit, perhaps something like morality".
Take those two dogs. That yogalike pose is known as a “play bow,” and in the language of play it’s one of the most commonly used words. It’s an instigation and a clarification, a warning and an apology. Dogs often adopt this stance as an invitation to play right before they lunge at another dog; they also bow before they nip (“I’m going to bite you, but I’m just fooling around”) or after some particularly aggressive roughhousing (“Sorry I knocked you over; I didn’t mean it.”). All of this suggests that dogs have a kind of moral code — one long hidden to humans until a cognitive ethologist named Marc Bekoff began to crack it.
Play bow prodigy, Jesse: Jesse And an expert at dog play — a seasoned veteran... Zeus with Jesse Zeus!