Now, we should be clear about our terms when it comes to these sorts of animals. These were multi-generational, wild-living dog packs. These were not the offspring of family pets that had been dumped for lack of energy or motivation to find homes. These are not household pets that had escaped, and were running loose for days, or weeks, or even months. We had to talk for a while before I realized what we were talking about: truly feral dogs. But that’s not what they really wanted to talk about… they had different issues, like how to lay their hands on the animals in the first place.
I started out talking about the principles of animal behavior, and of learning, and of treatment of anxiety in the shelter environment, and all of the information that is so widely useful to my clients and audiences (speaking and blog, in-home and shelter-based) here in the States.
Renee Ha, UW Psychology/Animal Behavior) research on the endangered Mariana Crow, and I offered to meet with the local shelter group, GAIN (Guam Animals In Need) to do a little education… and ended up getting an education myself. I was on the island on behalf of my wife’s ( Dr. I recently gave a presentation on applied animal behavior to a wonderful animal advocacy group on the Micronesian island of Guam.
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