Oliver Ringrose

Canine Advancement through Professional Exchange (CAPE) is an invitation-only platform where dog training and behaviour professionals can talk shop without their name, their business, or their reputation ever being on the line.

For most of our shared history, dogs weren’t simply animals we trained. They were animals we listened to. And if you've ever had a dog who could read a room better than you could, you already know what that felt like. That might sound strange now, because modern dog ownership is often built around the opposite question: does the dog listen to us? Does he come when called? Does she walk nicely? Will they sit, stay, settle, leave, drop, wait, return, tolerate and comply? If you're a trainer,...

Percy's Panorama: On Drive, Self-Preservation, and the Dog Who Doesn't Know When to Stop Percy's Panorama is an occasional long-form investigation into the topics that matter. This week, Percy examines what we actually mean when we say a dog is "high drive," why the phrase is doing considerably more damage than the dog world has acknowledged, and what it looks like — in daily, practical, sometimes alarming detail — to live with an animal whose motivational architecture operates entirely...