Champion of My HeartA real-time memoir about life with a fearful border collie, by Roxanne Hawn

Because we’ve had less than zero luck trying to use BAT (behavior adjustment training) in the real world with dogs (because the ones we run into have their own issues), I tried doing a little BAT work with Lilly and this one black-and-white horse who loves to run out and follow us (along the fence line) on our walks.

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Psychology experts call our sense that “dog people” are nicer a “fundamental attribution error.” That doesn’t mean we’re necessarily wrong in our assumptions. It simply means that we assign and potentially over-estimate the depth of someone’s character based on seeing them with a dog.

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