Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Year: 2022
Back to, yes you guessed it, Unsplash!
These are photographs of dogs looking straight at the camera and picking up on what Jules Howard speaks of in his video.
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Beautiful, just beautiful!
A wonderful account!
A friend of the blog recently sent me the following; I quote:
How dogs became our best friend
There are plenty of reasons why we love our dogs – and now science has turned its eye on our furry companions to better understand why we can’t live without them. Animal expert Jules Howard joins host Krys Boyd to discuss advancements in dog research, what we know about dog cognition and emotion, and the decades of study that brought us to where we are today. His book is called “Wonderdog: The Science of Dogs and Their Unique Friendship with Humans.“
Jules Howard
The friend included a link to the radio broadcast in which Jules Howard talked on Jefferson Public Radio and you can go there by clicking here and scrolling down the list of podcasts. It is just over 34 minutes long and you can find it from both the title and the date: NOVEMBER 23, 2022.
However, there is a longer video from Jules Howard on YouTube. It is 53 minutes long but, boy oh boy, Jules provides so much evidence that dogs are in tune with us in ways that one can hardly believe. Yes, he is sort of promoting his book Wonderdog but so what! So sit oneself down in an easy chair in front of your large screen and watch the following:
So let me close this post by repeating the introduction that I posted on November 4th that included the photograph of Oliver.
I love all our three dogs but Oliver, below, is so in tune with me that I swear he practically understands what I say!
What a beautiful gaze and something that Jules speaks of in his video
Technology got in the way.
As usual Jean and I were reviewing the post that I had planned for today yesterday evening.
All of a sudden a vast chunk of the post disappeared and the computer I was using made it very difficult to recover the text, so I decided to delay the post until tomorrow.
It affects so many but it is also a cruel disease.
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is unique to each individual as it is a disease of the brain. Yet there are aspects of the disease that affect most and especially the people who are close to the PD sufferer.
From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke comes a small extract:
Following Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second-most common neurodegenerative disorder in the United States. Most people diagnosed with PD are age 60 years or older, however, an estimated 5 to 10 percent of people with PD are diagnosed before the age of 50. Approximately 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with PD, but given that many individuals go undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed the actual number is likely much higher. Some experts estimate that as many as 1 million Americans have PD. Of course, given the progressive nature of the disabilities associated with PD, the disease affects thousands more wives, husbands, children, and other caregivers.
NINDS website
Jean was diagnosed in December, 2015 at the same time as my best friend in England, Richard Maugham.
More than 10 million people worldwide are living with PD!
Here is a video put out by Parkinson’s UK that is introduced as follows:
In this honest and often funny live talk Colin describes his experience with Parkinson’s and his hopes for the future.
So a wish on behalf of those countless other people: May there be a cure soon!
Learning from Dogs 