Patricia McConnell
Patricia McConnell
Patricia Bean McConnell is an Adjunct Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and expert in animal behavior. She has written several books, including The Other End of the Leash and For the Love of a Dog, and produced a number of pet training DVDs. In both her academic and popular writing she has focused on issues of interspecies communication. She also runs her own publishing company, McConnell Publishing...
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I'm virtually certain that it will be finalized." ()
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Science has always been uncomfortable with emotions, so there's a real bias against studying domestic animals. Especially canines that may sleep in our beds and eat off our plates and otherwise get spoiled.
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Perhaps you've taught your dog to sit, and you want to show this off to your friends, ... You say, 'Sit,' but he just looks at you." ()
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One of the biggest problems I see are dogs who don't have a lot of emotional control and frustration tolerance. If dogs are going to live in our houses as family members, they need to learn how to physiologically handle spiraling emotions, not react like a 2-year-old who drops an ice-cream cone." ()
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Domestic dogs follow humans like a laser and watch the behavior of their humans with a focus that is astounding, ... This opens up big and interesting questions about how social intelligence is passed on genetically." ()
couple writing years
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
jail age fifteen
I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.
school writing thinking
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.
white facts assuming
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.
people age desire
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
believe forever identity
I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.
weed drug criminals
Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.
historical peers prison
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
husband dirty past
My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."