Tag: clicker training
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Upcoming talk! Improving the human-cat bond through a better understanding of cat behavior, training, and enrichment
Speaker: Kristyn Vitale When: Thursday 9/22/2016 @ 6:00 PM Where: SafeHaven Training Center, Tangent, OR Cost: Suggested donation of $5 at the door per guest. Click here and select “Improving the human-cat bond…” below “Guest Speaker” to register for the lecture! Although domestic cats are one of the most popular companion animals, outnumbering even dogs by almost 10…
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Oregon State researcher proves cats can be trained
New Media Mention: OSU Stories, June 2016 Link to full story It’s a Friday evening in the Oldfield Animal Teaching hospital, and while most of the faculty has checked out for the weekend, Ph.D. research fellow Kristyn Vitale Shreve finds herself in the classroom with a few students. Some are sitting nicely in chairs, but…
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Webinar! The Social Lives of Cats
The social lives of cats: What science says about cat behavior and the human-cat bond Although domestic cats and humans have lived with one another for thousands of years, relatively little scientific research has been conducted with cats- especially when compared to the body of research on the domestic dog. Many questions regarding cat behavior,…
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Building the Bond Between Cats and People
New Media Mention: Kym Pokorny, Oregon’s Agricultural Progress, Summer 2016 Link to full story Shreve is a National Science Foundation graduate fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in animal sciences at Oregon State University. As part of Monique Udell’s Human-Animal Interaction lab, Shreve’s research focuses on cat behavior, cognition, and human-cat interactions. She’s had her share of…
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Kitten Training Classes? New Research Suggests Cat Stereotypes Are Just That
New Media Mention: Kyle Bunnell, The Corvallis Advocate June 22, 2016 Link to full story Kristyn Shreve, a graduate research fellow in OSU’s Human-Animal Interaction Lab, or HAI Lab, loves cats. She plays with them, talks to them, and, most importantly, studies them. It turns out we know rather little about cat cognition. Science has…
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