We’ve heard from some owners who have completed Dognition Assessment Toolkit with their dogs that they were initially a little surprised that their dog is a Socialite. When these owners think of the way their dog acts around strangers and new dogs, their Socialites seems anything but social. But once they read the in-depth description...
Continue reading...Dog Love
Does anyone else’s dog sleep like this?
Sometimes dogs seem to behave in unexplainable ways. Some common behavior, such as gazing into your eyes or yawning, can currently be explained by science. Maybe someday we can also learn what’s behind other behavior, like why some dogs sleep in strange and funny positions, once enough of them have participated in Dognition.
Continue reading...Why a dog’s vocabulary matters
In the personality questionnaire at the beginning of the Dognition Experience, we ask you how many words your dog knows. Human words, that is. It might take you a moment to count them on your fingers (and toes, if your dog knows a lot of words), but you could probably come up with an answer....
Continue reading...Ernie’s Charmed Life
I brag about my dog Ernie to anyone who will listen – the vet, folks at the dog park, or my friends and family (as any proud mama would). I think he is incredibly smart and the sweetest dog on earth — all 9.8 lbs of him. In September, I started working with Dognition, and...
Continue reading...Dogs and cats: what’s in a name?
When my wife and I picked up our dog from the shelter, he already had a name. We tried to come up with other names that fit him, thinking we’d somehow have a more personalized experience adopting him if we got to name him ourselves. We were driving back home and our new dog was...
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