Thinking About Dogs With The Grown-Ups
Emma LeeThinking About Dogs For Grown Ups from Emma at Lighten Up Dog Training: culture, media, sociology, psychology, law, politics, animal behaviour, animal emotions, welfare science and learning theory. You know... all the BIG thinking!
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So, we’ve been building up to this study:
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