Erin Jones

University of Canterbury | UC · New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies

Cooperative care is connected to consent in many ways and is used to empower dogs and improve their emotional wellness. It allows our dogs to have control over handling that is often forceful and invasive. Cooperative care utilizes a two-way communication system. (1) We provide information to our dogs by teaching them how consent behaviour works an...

Traditionally, humans treated their companion dogs with absolute authority. Furthermore, much of human behaviour towards dogs is cloaked in myths and driven by human-centric labels such as ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ ‘stubborn’ or ‘friendly’ to describe behaviours, emotions, traits or personalities. This has meant that companion dogs have little, if any, autono...

In this chapter authors argue traditional methods that silence, marginalise and invisibilise other animals are hard-pressed to contribute to efforts to make animal lives better: in other words, the “master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Lorde, 1984). This chapter outlines the necessity of including nonhuman animals in human-anima...

Introduction: Threats to marine ecosystems and marine mammals are largely anthropogenic. Nova Scotia, Canada, is a major contributor to such pollutants with its vast and long-standing ocean industry. Due to the inherent value of marine mammals and to the number of Nova Scotian residents who rely directly or indirectly on the ocean for their livelih...