{"id":172362,"date":"2025-04-05T19:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/companion-animal-psychology-turns-13-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:06:43","slug":"companion-animal-psychology-turns-13-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=172362","title":{"rendered":"Companion Animal Psychology Turns 13 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Today I\u2019m celebrating 13 years of writing about how to have happy dogs and cats, aided by science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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By Zazie Todd, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n

The symbol of a thirteenth anniversary is lace, so that\u2019s why I chose this photo of a beautiful cat in a window.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I feel very lucky to still be able to write this blog, and to have such a special community around it of people who care so passionately about the welfare of dogs and cats.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I find it a little hard to look back on the last year, because it\u2019s six months since I lost my dad. Of course, I still miss him terribly.<\/p>\n

But there were some real highlights. I was so happy to celebrate the publication of my third book, Bark! The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog<\/a><\/i>, in October.<\/p>\n

As it happens, this book is dedicated to my parents, and it means a lot that my dad was able to see this before he passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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People tell me they love the stories about Pepper in the book<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And, of course, there was Bark!<\/i> Fest, the book festival for animal lovers. I was delighted that so many incredible authors came and shared their books with us. It was a heart-warming (and popular) event. More than 1600 people signed up, some events reached capacity at 500 people\u2014and some special folk came to every single event (or almost every one).<\/p>\n

I was especially honoured that Marc Bekoff, PhD, and Cat Warren both agreed to be on a panel with me. I love their writing, and I love the empathy that suffuses their work\u2014and they are both also such interesting and engaging people to chat with.<\/p>\n

If you missed it, you can\u00a0watch the recording here<\/a>\u00a0or listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n