ABOUT CCR · HAVERIM HOME LABORATORY
Close to life.
Open to question.
Canine Communication Research — formerly known as Pretty’s World — brings documentary attention to the everyday lives of dogs.
A research and home-laboratory initiative, and an initiating project of Pet University.
PRETTY & FRANÇOIS · HAVERIM
DOCUMENTARY ROOTS
SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY
ANIMAL INDIVIDUALITY
FROM PRETTY’S WORLD TO CCR
A new identity.
A continuous story.
The name has evolved; the historical record stays. Pretty’s stories, images and communication observations — kept with their original dates since 2023 — form the documentary foundation of CCR.
CCR’s purpose is to ask better questions about canine communication without turning a compelling household moment into more evidence than it can carry.
Attention first.
Interpretation second.
A WORKING PRINCIPLE OF THE HOME LABORATORY
THE HAVERIM HOME LABORATORY
Research begins
with a relationship.
Led by François G. Wayenberg in Belgium, CCR follows naturalistic canine interactions in a household setting. Pretty is central to this work; the journal also documents Lilly, Elvis and visiting dogs.
A home offers continuity and context. It also calls for explicit care around observer expectations, selective reporting and alternative explanations.
LILLY · ALSO PART OF THE JOURNAL
THE FOUNDER
François G. Wayenberg
An AI entrepreneur and independent researcher with a lifelong interest in animal behaviour — and Pretty’s companion. When a university canine-cognition study turned out to be out of reach from Europe, he chose to offer Pretty the richest communication environment he could at home, and to document it.
He is also the founder of Ajinomatrix, which works on the digitisation of taste and smell.
HOW WE APPROACH THE WORK
Empathy and discipline
belong together.
01
Voluntary participation
Welfare, rest and the animal’s freedom to disengage take priority over obtaining a result.
02
Transparent interpretation
Accounts identify the observer, the context, the uncertainty and the competing explanations.
03
Room for correction
Contradictory observations and unsuccessful interpretations belong in a useful record.
These principles describe CCR’s editorial standard; they do not certify the completeness of every historical record.
THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME
From a household
question to a
methodological framework.
CCR’s published Hypothesis and Theory article proposes studying the situated communicative event rather than an isolated button press. It offers a framework for inquiry. It does not establish that Pretty — or dogs generally — understand human language.