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Something important has happened for Canine Communication Research. The abstract page of our Frontiers article is now live: From Button Presses to Situated Communicative Events: A methodological framework for canine Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) research under interpretive uncertainty The article has been accepted in Frontiers in Animal Science, in the section Animal Welfare and Policy, as a Hypothesis and Theory contribution. The final formatted version is

From the Bastogne Sausage Truck to Political Economy: How Three Dogs Discovered Democracy, Logistics, Market Forces and the Strategic Value of a Well-Placed Nose The Chronicles of Haverim — Canine Communication Research PU Faculty of Applied Sausage Sciences — Department of Political Economy, Logistics and Advanced Knacki Distribution Inaugural Course: ECO-POL 101 — Introduction to the Political Economy of the Sausage Party Professor: Papa, Founder and Acting Dean of Pet Univ

Three Dogs. Two Poops. One Storm. Zero Sausages. And the Greatest Comeback in CCR History. The Chronicles of Haverim — A Three-Act Canine Comedy Featuring Pretty, Chief Justice of the Sausage Republic; Lilly, Queen of the Knacki Dance Club; Elvis d’Artagnan, Defender of the Royal Cushion; and Storm Austen, an uninvited guest with absolutely no respect for canine constitutional law. PROLOGUE — WHEN THE SAUSAGE REPUBLIC FACED ITS DARKEST HOUR Ladies and gentlemen. Distinguished

One for All, All for Sausages! — Pretty, Elvis d’Artagnan and Lilly Return for an Extraordinary Night at Haverim A Canine Communication Research Chronicle — Haverim Home Laboratory, Belgium Featuring three dogs, two sausage parties, one suspicious fart, several new beds, a reluctant expedition into the garden, and the greatest constitutional crisis in canine gastronomy since the discovery of the Bastogne sausage truck. PROLOGUE — THE THREE MUSKETEERS ARE REUNITED! BREAKING NE

From Saint-Tropez to Bastogne, via General de Gaulle, the Allied Resistance, and the Greatest Culinary Revelation in Springer Spaniel History By François Gabriel Wayenberg — Canine Communication Research (CCR), Haverim keLev, Belgium -- Written at times better endeavors needed in France. BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CANINE COMMUNICATION FRONT. After years of observation, button-pressing, interspecies diplomacy, religious contemplation, and occasional sausage-related theological inc

There are days at CCR when one tries to maintain scientific dignity. One says things like: “The appropriate unit of analysis is the situated communicative event.” One speaks of interpretive uncertainty, operational coding, counter-categories, welfare safeguards, and the importance of not over-attributing meaning to canine behaviour. And then Pretty walks into the room and reminds everyone that research is not always conducted in a laboratory. Image: GPT - Pretty, her divine p

Some days begin like ordinary dog days. A leash is checked. A car is prepared. A small team gathers. A dog looks at the humans and wonders, very reasonably, why everyone is behaving as if something ceremonial is happening. And then one remembers: Pretty has been invited to a royal dog event. Not symbolically. Not as a joke. Not only in one of our overdramatic CCR illustrations where Springer Spaniels become diplomatic envoys of interspecies communication. This time, the CCR c

There are moments in a small research project when reality becomes wonderfully disproportionate. At Canine Communication Research, we are used to watching small things carefully: a paw near a button, a dog looking at a door, a hesitation before a press, a yawn after reassurance, a bark becoming quieter at night. Small signals.Small contexts.Small domestic events. And then, suddenly, the world map lights up. Following the publication of our Frontiers article, From Button Press

At Canine Communication Research, we spend a lot of time thinking about buttons. Buttons pressed.Buttons ignored.Buttons interpreted too quickly.Buttons interpreted too slowly.Buttons that might mean Outside, Help, Love-you-Dad, or possibly just: “Human, please stop pretending you understand everything.” But sometimes the most interesting communication happens when there are no buttons at all. This is the story of Lilly, senior dwarf dachshund, retired duchess of emotional pr

At Haverim keLev, behavioural diplomacy sometimes arrives in the form of a sliced sausage. Lilly and Elvis came to us with the majestic authority of elderly small dogs. Lilly, the dwarf teckel, had the focused determination of a tiny underground engineer doubled by an all-out-barking grass torpedo. Elvis, the fluffy chihuahua aka d'Artagnan, carried the emotional sensitivity of a velvet security alarm. Together, they formed a senior diplomatic bloc of considerable power. The

When Pretty Turned a Pool Into a Therapy Session A small dog - still a puppy, a blue pool, and one of the deepest lessons I have ever received Something surreal happened with Pretty. Not merely clever. Not merely moving. Surreal — in the precise sense that reality briefly seemed to stretch beyond its ordinary frame. What began as a practical issue around a swimming pool ended, somehow, in something that felt like psychotherapy across species. And it happened step by step. The

Or: how three senior dogs accidentally discovered comparative grammar at dawn At the CCR, we are beginning to suspect that senior dogs, when properly motivated, can become unexpectedly attentive students of both mathematics and comparative linguistics. This morning’s lesson was particularly extraordinary because it unfolded almost entirely in silence. No barking. No whining. No diplomatic incidents. Only concentration. And sausages. Lots of concentration about sausages. The s

Or: how three senior dogs accidentally founded canine applied mathematics At the CCR, we have now reached a truly extraordinary stage of research. Not only are dogs capable of contextual communication, emotional negotiation, household diplomacy, and social regulation… …but apparently, they are also perfectly capable of attending mathematics class when sufficient sausage-based motivation is involved. And as our soon-to-be-published scientific pilot paper now officially explain

At CCR, we often say that senior dogs are not “too old to learn.” They are simply experienced negotiators with strong opinions, refined habits, and occasionally, very sophisticated sausage strategies. Tonight, Lilly the dwarf teckel and Elvis the fluffy Chihuahua proved this with theatrical brilliance. The context was delicate. After a tiring travel-and-hospital day, the smallies had been taken outside several times, yet the kitchen still suffered a double kakou incident. So

Or, how a Springer's button board became her personal journal — and no one touches a girl's journal without consequences. There are days...

There are moments in a dog's life that change everything. Yesterday, at the Canine Communication Research HQ, one such moment unfolded. A...

At the Canine Communication Research (CCR) hub, you’d think we’d seen it all. From Pretty’s poetic paw presses to Lilly’s snow-induced...

At the Canine Communication Research (CCR) center, we’re used to decoding the unexpected—but nothing quite prepared us for the spiritual...

At CCR, we celebrate communication breakthroughs — when a dog pushes a button with purpose, when a message is understood across species....

Brace yourselves, friends of CCR, because today we witnessed the birth of a legendary interspecies bond — one that might just go down in...