Lots of people make resolutions to try to spend more time with their dog, to try to take them to obedience class, to take them out for sports. It's the canine equivalent of promising that we're going to go out and exercise more ourselves, lose weight and be good and moral.
"Stanley Coren" (born 1942) is a psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher who has become best known to the general public for his best selling and award winning books regarding the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs. Through television shows and media coverage that have been broadcast in Canada and the United States as well as overseas, he has become popular with dog owners, while continuing research and instruction in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also writes for Psychology Today in the feature Canine Corner.
More Stanley Coren on Wikipedia.They are incredibly active and have to be worked. If you don't, they become neurotic and they're smart enough to make you neurotic too.
People forget that Omar Bradley went all around World War II with a big black poodle named Beau. And everybody associates Winston Churchill with the bulldog because he looked like a bulldog. But the truth is Winston Churchill never owned a bulldog. He owned miniature poodles and they were all called Rufus.
The big thing about the past is that a lot of people didn't have disposable income. Now we do. Now, if you want to go out and get a liver pate birthday cake for your dog and throw a party, you can do that sort of thing.
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