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Dr. Karolina Westlund

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Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And the ones that are sort of semi-depressed... get sort of more enthusiastic about life. And also, if we're back in core effect space again, we have this shift to the right-hand side of the core effect space. So we have positive valence associated with that. And it seems really interesting. Early days still, because this dog sport is like just, I don't know, 15 years old or something.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And the ones that are sort of semi-depressed... get sort of more enthusiastic about life. And also, if we're back in core effect space again, we have this shift to the right-hand side of the core effect space. So we have positive valence associated with that. And it seems really interesting. Early days still, because this dog sport is like just, I don't know, 15 years old or something.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

It's not very old. So essentially what we can do is we can, every dog could do nose work. I think that would be an interesting sort of an outlet for that very first part of the behavior sequence. And then I know that some trainers are working specifically to help dogs who chase wildlife, for instance.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

It's not very old. So essentially what we can do is we can, every dog could do nose work. I think that would be an interesting sort of an outlet for that very first part of the behavior sequence. And then I know that some trainers are working specifically to help dogs who chase wildlife, for instance.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

It's not very old. So essentially what we can do is we can, every dog could do nose work. I think that would be an interesting sort of an outlet for that very first part of the behavior sequence. And then I know that some trainers are working specifically to help dogs who chase wildlife, for instance.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And it's about teaching the dog to stay in the first parts of the predatory sequence, to do the sniffing, the pointing and the eyeing behavior. And they're getting reinforced for that so many times so that it becomes like a feedback loop that they see a deer running across the road and they go, mom, I saw a deer and they get reinforced for that.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And it's about teaching the dog to stay in the first parts of the predatory sequence, to do the sniffing, the pointing and the eyeing behavior. And they're getting reinforced for that so many times so that it becomes like a feedback loop that they see a deer running across the road and they go, mom, I saw a deer and they get reinforced for that.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And it's about teaching the dog to stay in the first parts of the predatory sequence, to do the sniffing, the pointing and the eyeing behavior. And they're getting reinforced for that so many times so that it becomes like a feedback loop that they see a deer running across the road and they go, mom, I saw a deer and they get reinforced for that.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And other dogs like greyhounds love chasing, that you allow them to do that. And then other dogs that really enjoy carrying things, that you allow them to do that. And then give your poodle something to rip apart. Is that what poodles like to do? Disembowel things, yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And other dogs like greyhounds love chasing, that you allow them to do that. And then other dogs that really enjoy carrying things, that you allow them to do that. And then give your poodle something to rip apart. Is that what poodles like to do? Disembowel things, yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And other dogs like greyhounds love chasing, that you allow them to do that. And then other dogs that really enjoy carrying things, that you allow them to do that. And then give your poodle something to rip apart. Is that what poodles like to do? Disembowel things, yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, ripping apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, ripping apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, ripping apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, as far as I understand, yes.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, as far as I understand, yes.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah, as far as I understand, yes.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And then also I would, you know, rather than serving food on the plate, you might try scatter feeding. So just or feeding it in a way that the animal actually has to work for it. So do some behavior like one of these snuffle mats, you hide the food in there. So they have to actually spend some time looking for the food before consuming it.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And then also I would, you know, rather than serving food on the plate, you might try scatter feeding. So just or feeding it in a way that the animal actually has to work for it. So do some behavior like one of these snuffle mats, you hide the food in there. So they have to actually spend some time looking for the food before consuming it.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

And then also I would, you know, rather than serving food on the plate, you might try scatter feeding. So just or feeding it in a way that the animal actually has to work for it. So do some behavior like one of these snuffle mats, you hide the food in there. So they have to actually spend some time looking for the food before consuming it.