Be More Dog

Włodarczyk, Justyna

doi:10.1080/13528165.2017.1315962

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“…In recent years there has been a movement to reframe training around 'doggish worlds', with an emphasis on fun and activities such as agility and scent work that engage canine sensibilities and encourage humans to literally become 'more dog'. 67 Novice dogs entering the training classes learn through a gradual process of trial, error, reward (and sometimes displeasure) to resist some of their 'doggish' impulses to sniff, bark, chase, play or interact with other dogs/people and instead focus on their human companions. Certain 'basic' behaviours were commonly seen as 'essential' across all training classes we observed, such as the ability to obey simple verbal commands like 'sit' or 'stay', ignore food or other distractions and to return to their companion when called.…”

Section: Becoming More Dog-human? (Or Human-dog?)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The key principle behind reward-based training is to heavily reward the dog for making the 'correct' choice 77 until the dog embodies this behaviour (in this case returning to their human companion) of his/her own choice, over alternative self-rewarding behaviours (sniffing other dogs, playing with toys, eating food from the floor). Therefore, the reward needs to be of sufficiently 'high value' to 'make it worth it' for the dog, especially in the early stages of training.…”

Section: Jojo Heads Straight For the Treats And Toysmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Imagine you are a Dog’: embodied learning in multi-species research

Fox

Charles

Smith

et al. 2022

cultural geographies

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Based upon a multi-species ethnography of companion dog training in the UK, this paper examines the training class as a site of inter-species communication through which dogs and their humans are mutually affected and transformed. We argue that dog training represents an important form of multi-species learning in which participants (human trainer, trainee and canine) shape one another, jointly if asymmetrically, through the performance of particular tasks and challenges. Successful training requires ‘attunement’ to the haptic and sensory experiences of another species and the creation of shared embodied languages through which relationships of trust and reciprocity are formed. Responding to calls for less human-centred methods we examine the possibilities of visual and ethnographic methods for capturing the ‘animal’s point of view’ and explore how deep ethnographic involvement of the researcher’s own body can draw attention to the everyday complexities of embodied inter-species communication. We consider the importance of our own embodied learning in decentring the human in the research process, engendering a corporeal understanding of the multi-sensory nature of inter-species interaction and transforming ourselves in the process. Through the use of ethnographic vignettes, photos and video stills we highlight the importance of body language, sound, touch, smell and training atmospheres in the creation of shared knowledges. In doing so we explore the possibilities of such methods for evoking the affective dimensions of human-canine interactions and attending to the complex and multiple actors and sensibilities which comprise multi-species training relationships.

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Section: Becoming More Dog-human? (Or Human-dog?)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Jojo Heads Straight For the Treats And Toysmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Imagine you are a Dog’: embodied learning in multi-species research

Fox

Charles

Smith

et al. 2022

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“…En este sentido, el ámbito de los elementos para medir las interacciones humano-perro ha seguido avanzando en la última década debido al importante papel del perro en las sociedades humanas (Rehn y Keeling, 2016). En su mayoría, las herramientas de medida de la relación humano-perro incluyen datos sobre las actitudes sobre la tenencia responsable, lo que sugiere que es un posible factor determinante de esta relación, pero existen muy pocos instrumentos validados que valoren específicamente la tenencia responsable, como es el caso del "Dog Care Responsibility Inventory" (Davis, 1987), que, además, tiene cierta antigüedad, lo cual podría volverlo no apto dada la evolución en las últimas décadas de las actitudes hacia los perros (Wlodarczyk, 2017).…”

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Desarrollo de una escala de tenencia responsable de perros

Gómez

Sanz

Araya³

et al. 2021

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En la literatura se han estudiado los múltiples beneficios de tener un animal de compañía. Sin embargo, en ciertos países aún no se logran niveles exitosos de aplicación de manejos de tenencia responsable. Todavía no existen herramientas validadas para evaluar los niveles de tenencia responsable de estos animales, lo cual dificulta la comprensión y abordaje de esta problemática. El objetivo de esta investigación fue desarrollar una herramienta de medición válida de las prácticas de tenencia responsable de los tutores de perros. Para esto, se aplicó un cuestionario online a 1281 propietarios de perros en Chile. Para validar el instrumento, se realizó un análisis de confiabilidad con la muestra de 1065 participantes. Esta reveló que el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach es de 0.651. Se ha demostrado que esta herramienta puede ser utilizada para evaluar las prácticas de tenencia responsable, ya que tiene una consistencia interna aceptable para este tipo de variables.

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“…Scholars of human–animal studies maintain that dogs actively shape relations between family members who change everyday practices to incorporate the needs of their dogs [9,10,11]. The rise in positive training, for example, equates to the recognition of sentience and mindedness of dogs [12], and the emotional, affective, and caring relationships they facilitate. Fox argues further that in shaping everyday familial practices animal companions are intrinsic to our “sense” of home and belonging [3].…”

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Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective

Allen

Peacock

Arathoon

2019

Animals

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Dogs are considered property under U.K. law, while current discourses of pet ownership place canine companions as part of an extended family. This means sentences for those who steal dogs are not reflective of a dogs’ sentience and agency, rather in line with charges for those who steal a laptop or wallet. This is particularly problematic as dog theft is currently on the rise in England and Wales, leading to public calls to change the law. Recognising that a more robust analysis of dog theft crime statistics is required, we gathered dog theft data for 2015, 2016, and 2017 from 41 of 44 police forces through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. This paper uses these data to examine how dog theft crime statistics are constructed, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these data, and categorises, maps, and measures dog theft changes temporally per police force in England and Wales. Our findings reveal there has been an increase in dog theft crimes, with 1559 in 2015, 1653 in 2016 (+6.03%), and 1842 in 2017 (+11.43%), and a decrease in court charges related to dog theft crimes, with 64 (3.97%) in 2015, 51 (3.08%) in 2016, and 39 (2.11%) in 2017. There were police force inconsistencies in recording dog theft crime, which meant some data were unusable or could not be accessed or analysed. We recommend a qualitative study to understand stakeholder perspectives of dog theft crime in different areas, and a standardised and transparent approach to recording the theft of a dog by all forces across England and Wales. This could be achieved by classifying dog theft (or pet theft more generally) as a crime in itself under the Sentencing Guidelines associated with the Theft Act 1968.

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Be More Dog

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

‘Imagine you are a Dog’: embodied learning in multi-species research

‘Imagine you are a Dog’: embodied learning in multi-species research

Desarrollo de una escala de tenencia responsable de perros

Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective

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