In the lab where I trained animals in sensory discrimination tasks, another graduate student had taped a cartoon to the lab door, showing two rats in a Skinner box having a deep conversation. Pointing ...

Using food to train your dog or cat doesn't just motivate them. It provides enrichment and helps teach behaviors effectively.

For those who have a passion for the furry friends in our community, Santiago Canyon College is offering a new Companion Animal Training program beginning this fall that will serve as a pathway to ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

Jon Garthoff does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Zoo keeper Eunice Frahm does not care for lions or tigers. Or gorillas or bears or hippos or rhinos. Or anything exotic, really. Picture, instead, three little pigs. Some goats (including Myka), a ...

If you're in the process of training your pet, you need to know these small training habits that may be confusing your pet, delaying progress, and making learning harder than it needs to be.

OHSU declined to participate in this conversation, but Dr. Kerry Foley, a retired emergency medical doctor who volunteers for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, joins us to share her ...