Animal Culture

So, here comes part two of the animal culture debate.  Part one you can find here – and yes, it was too good to be true, she was not house-trained overnight…

Do animals have culture? Well what is culture? Oh dear. It is defined in so many ways by so many people: are we talking about [...]

A Sane Dog and an Englishwoman

After much deliberation and reading about possible havoc and chaos that might be wrought on our stable home, I have just acquired a thirteen-week-old puppy. She is, what you would call in Ireland, a ‘dote’. On the one and a half hour drive home in the heat of the car on a summer’s [...]