Jen Walker

JABAAT issue 1 (2) 22-43

“The entire training protocol...were first finely tuned with ten humans using the desktop Portable Operant Research and Teaching Lab (Hunter & Rosales-Ruiz, 2023) with the purpose of minimising stress with respect to the care for animals.”

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She is speaking directly to all of us. Our actions matter.

de Lint quote about looking out for each other and doing the best we can

Thank you, MaryAnn
Thank you, Charles

Purple hydrangea

a late bloomer, from a friend's garden, just yesterday

Positive Reinforcement vs. Dominance-Based Dog Training: What Science Says Experts and research agree that reward-based dog training builds trust, reduces stress, and creates lasting behavior far better than dominance methods.

“Training built on trust lasts,” Coleman adds. “When we work with a dog instead of against it, we aren’t necessarily teaching obedience. We’re building connection, confidence, and communication in both dogs and their owners.”

CDFW News | ‘Salmon Everywhere’ One Year After Klamath Dam Removal A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, CDFW scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just about every corner of their historic habitat.

"A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just about every corner of their historic habitat."

In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work

"The Listen Up Collaborative, as the project came to be known, has collected more than 400,000 recordings...The data will help guide habitat restoration work, with the goal of drawing diverse animal species, mitigating fire risk and bolstering forests’ resilience in the face of climate change."

Three mushrooms and a house across the street

There is much mushrooming in my neighborhood.

The artist who created the image of a leafy green wolf offering a high-five is at https://www.deviantart.com/alectorfencer

What items of reusables, non-plastics, earth-friendly items do you use around your house and in your everyday life? Which ones would you steer someone away from? Which brands do you know and trust, and/or which ones do you feel are greenwashing or misleading?

Crow silhouetted in flight in front of a rainbow

@banditelli.org captured this and shared it with us!

Propolis Brewing, glass of tart, dark ale

Hiking booted feet, wet boot print, water/oil heart, a couple autumn fallen leaves

PetSafe shock collars falsely advertised as 'harmless,' class action claims Radio Systems markets its PetSafe shock collars as being safe and harmless, when they actually harm pets physically and psychologically, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

"To conceal the true nature of the shock collars, Radio Systems uses euphemisms to describe what being electrocuted by a shock collar feels like for a pet, the lawsuit states."

$1.9M PetSafe electronic collar class action settlement PetSafe and parent company Radio Systems Corporation have agreed to a $1.9 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to disclose that its electronic collars were potentially ...

"According to the class action lawsuit, PetSafe failed to disclose that its electronic ‘shock’ collars were not “harmless” as advertised and could allegedly cause physical and psychological harm."

November sunshine through dogwood leave

"Today on The Score we will explore films that celebrate the cultures that preceded Western colonization..."

Woman and wolf, sleeping within

Moon's Child
(self-portrait cyanotype project, 2022)
Dara Lobeira

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“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...

Blustery autumn day by the lake

daily anti-capitalist affirmations from liberatory wellness network

Words that might help us live, not just survive.

A Charm Against the Language of Politics by Veronica Patterson — THE MOVING PEN with Sharon Singer I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work table when the sky lightens and smoke begins to rise ...

"Say over and over the names of things,
the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager,
Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases,
gravestones."

Trumpeters Swans flying overhead

Triumph of the trumpeter swans | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service share.google/Q8BiK7yfjEzC...

In the Bay Area, donors are doing everything to keep iconic park open Companies donated money to keep Muir Woods National Monument open.

"Businesses stepping up to keep individual parks open during the shutdown represent one side of two dueling narratives swirling around national parks as the shutdown extends over a month."

Loving an old dog This isn't a sad pet story

"Worlds end when dogs die; eras come to a close. We three are living at the very end of an age."

An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.

"Disobeying and dominating the laws, rhythms and shape of nature, as seen in the seasonal exploitation of human energy and labor via daylight saving time, perpetuates the unparalleled social and environmental decline uniquely characteristic to the current capitalist era."

Not yet, but, humorously, a somewhat similarly named location - Chuckanut.

TICK TICK BOOM! A Moment of Connection and Gratitude

"This twelve-year-old Aussie has taught me more about living life than I could ever read in a book. He lives in the moment and has no regrets, guilt, shame, or embarrassment over his “condition.”

Chuckanut Drive, after an autumn rain

Protecting Pets from ICE and Tear Gas I cannot believe that in the United States I am writing about protecting pets from tear gas, pepper balls, smoke grenades, and similar crowd-control tools have continue to be deployed by ICE agents, e...

"I cannot believe that in the United States I am writing about protecting pets from tear gas, pepper balls, smoke grenades, and similar crowd-control tools have continue to be deployed by ICE agents,"

Pets and ICE - this article covers more ground than just the headline.

One Big Frog, or a multitude? The debate continues!