Oliver Ringrose

You see water with your eyes. We smell it. Those aren't the same tool for this particular job, and one of them has been quietly getting the right answer this whole time while you've been putting it down to personality.

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,...