Myrna Milani Audio Updates

Myrna Milani Audio Updates


Latest Episodes

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 313
September 03, 2014

Ditch the Sits This picture of Frica (brown) and the most submissive pup in her first litter demonstrates the inherent role of the sit command. (http://www.mmilani.com/blog/wp-content/AUT_1517_thumb.jpg)   This was taken one the first days I took the

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 312
August 27, 2014

Cat and Human Perception Last week I meandering primarily about canine versus human perception so it seemed only natural to look at this same situation as it relates to cats and us. Unfortunately because cats are so out-of-box behaviorally I found myself

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 311
August 20, 2014

Fast- and Slo-Mo Perception In keeping with the variable rate of perception theme of this podcast, it’s a little shorter than usual. I had trouble recording it because I kept trying to mentally envision what it meant to see reality at the faster canine

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 310
August 13, 2014

Learning to Fly Here’s how the baby phoebes looked before their eyes opened:   (http://www.mmilani.com/blog/wp-content/IMG_1486_thumb.jpg)   Because I had to use the flash to get the picture, once their eyes opened that ended the picture-taking bec

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 309
August 06, 2014

Dog-Tired and Cat-Frazzled When I edited this podcast I realized that I referred to dogs instead of dogs and cats in my examples. In retrospect, that might explain why the cat made it so clear that he wanted out when I was recording this.  In may admitt

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 308
July 30, 2014

Firefly Factoids Among my most favorite scientists and engineers are those who explore how animals solve certain problems as valuable sources of information regarding the solution to  similar problems in the human world. That science now looks to the an

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 307
July 23, 2014

Too Much of a Good Thing Imagine you took your dog to the veterinary clinic and the veterinarian used treatments and techniques based on studies conducted in the 1940s and 50s. Preventives and treatments now available weren’t offered to you. Most of us

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 306
July 16, 2014

Mirrors, Windows, and the Human-Animal Bond I’m the first to admit that how open I or my animals are to recognizing  the full potential of the bond varies from day to day. Relative to capturing that connection photographically, I realized that for me a

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 305
July 09, 2014

The Double Cat-Dog Standard The different ways our society views dyed-in-the-wool cat people compared to similarly devoted dog people and the way those in these two groups view each other is an on-going source of interest to me. This podcast explores a f

Meandering With Myrn: Episode 304
July 02, 2014

When Animals Just Say No While I was working on this podcast my wood-guy, Steve, delivered four cords of wood. As usual we caught up on that we’d been doing in the last year and while we talked his old dog wandered around the yard claiming it as her ow