Your ideal cat: insights into breed and gender differences in cat behavior

| Books | Contributor(s): Benjamin L. Hart, Lynette A. Hart

For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behavior. This is the advice of the Harts, two experts in animal communication and behavior, …

http://habricentral.org/resources/1688

Property, people, or pets?

| Books | Contributor(s): Fiery Cushman (editor), Marc D. Hauser (editor), Matt Kamen (editor), Alan M. Beck (editor)

A child can't be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child's care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights. …

http://habricentral.org/resources/415

Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound: How you and your dog can lose weight, stay fit, and have fun together

| Books | Contributor(s): Phil Zeltzman, Rebecca A Johnson, Alan M. Beck

A dog is an ideal workout partner: always supportive, happy to go for a walk, and never judgmental. When people and dogs exercise together, fitness and health happen on both ends of the leash. As the …

http://habricentral.org/resources/272

Unleashed Fury: The political struggle for dog-friendly parks

| Books | Contributor(s): Julie Walsh, Alan M. Beck (Editor)

The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States. In the last two decades, "leash-law …

http://habricentral.org/resources/270

Playing with my dog Katie: An ethnomethodological study of dog-human interaction

| Books | Contributor(s): David A. Goode

The relationship between dogs and humans has been represented and contemplated since the beginning of human culture. Lasting expressions of this interest can be found in art, philosophy, literature, …

http://habricentral.org/resources/236