This is the conclusion of the formal interview that I’ve been conducting with trainer Irith Bloom about Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT), which was created by Grisha Stewart. The first week we covered the basic theory and techniques. In the second, we got into some more esoteric issues like “negative punishment,” which turns out not to…
Pet photography: A quick primer
Talk about serendipity. I had been in contact with journalist, artist, and animal activist Twig Mowatt for quite a while. When I visited her pet portraits site, I was not only impressed by her art but also struck by the section about how to take a photograph that could be used as a basis for…