The Dognition Beta Program has been underway for just over a month, and we’re already learning a lot from our participants. Hopefully, they are learning a lot about their dogs, too! In addition to the great feedback we’ve received about the Dognition Experience — what you like, what you think could be improved — we’ve...
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Dognition and Citizen Science
One of the things that makes Dognition so dynamic and exciting is our use of Citizen Science. What’s Citizen Science? It’s research that can be conducted by anyone who has the time and interest, not just scientists with Ph.Ds and lab coats. Recently, citizen scientists have discovered new planets and helped researchers understand why babies...
Continue reading...Finding Teddy’s Genius: The Gift of Understanding
As part of my initiation to the Dognition team, I got to play the Toolkit assessment with Teddy, the mixed-breed dog I’d been sharing my life with for just over a year. Teddy and I had a pretty good relationship already. I knew what kinds of games he liked to play (fetch), what kind of...
Continue reading...An Introduction to Dognition
Does your dog ever give you “the look?” You know the look: head tilted, eyes fixed on yours. Have you ever wondered what was going on behind those eyes? In the last 10 years, scientists have learned more about how dogs think than they had in the last century. We now know that dogs use...
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