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Pavlov’s dog game from Nobel Prize website

In this game, you will find out if you can train a dog to drool on command! Ivan Pavlov’s description on how animals (and humans) can be trained to respond in a certain way to a particular stimulus, has drawn a tremendous amount of interest ever since he first presented his findings. His work paved the way for a new and objective method of studying animal and human behavior.

Q: Your latest book was inspired by your dog?

Maira Kalman: That is another example of art meeting life. My dog ate a lot of things around the house, and we started making a list that included rubber gloves, glue sticks and my Leica camera, which was the first instance of him eating something I adored. ”What Pete Ate” is an alphabet book. I’m a big fan of the alphabet. I use it daily.

Q: So Pete likes comfort food too.

Maira Kalman: Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
New York Times

Do Not Disturb by Yoshitomo Nara

Teach Dog To Read Basics
13th October 2006
Author: Ande Waggener

Teach dog to read? Can it be done? Yes, it can. You can teach dog to read.

Why would you want to?

Well, even though Fido is never going to read a book or magazine, his ability to understand a written word as a command can come in handy. The teach dog to read techniques can help you with special situations.

Life has a tendency to throw curve balls. There may come a day when you have difficulty speaking. Maybe you just have laryngitis, and you can’t call your dog. Or maybe you have a more serious condition.

More likely, your dog may lose his or her hearing someday. At 14 years old, my dog has lost most of hers. I now use hand signals to communicate with her, but I’m working on teaching her to read too.

Teach dog to read instructions aren’t as complicated as you might imagine. The step-by-step process of teach dog to read is pretty straightforward. Read the rest of this entry »

In this bohemian celebration, Max the dog, the poet, the dreamer, is back. His struggle for acceptance since Hey Willy, See the Pyramids has not been easy–Max has had to post his poems on a wall at the corner of Pastrami and Salami Streets for his fellow New Yorkers to see. Even as he pines for Paris, Max admits that New York City is fine by him: ” . . . a jumping, jazzy city, a shimmering, stimmering triple-decker sandwich kind of city.” In this unique blend of reality and fantasy, intermingled words and images seem influenced by such strange sources as Mamie Eisenhower’s wardrobe, the Jazz Age and the Theatre of the Absurd. Banter that rings with sophistication is well matched by the esoteric illustrative approach readers have come to expect from Kalman. Although there is much to glean from an unhurried single reading, this fanciful creation yields its greatest treasures through repeated visits.
Book by Maira Kalman