Put Your Face In It: How Gaming Helped Me Understand My Dog
If you want to know how a dog sees the world, ask yourself how you explore virtual spaces with your controller. No, really!
I have this dog. His name is Brian, and he's a whippet, plus some other skinny-dog ingredients. He looks like this.
Great, right? In that image, it's fairly easy to see that he's thinking, "I am beautiful, in every single way; words can't bring me down." But a lot of the time, figuring out his thought process is a little more complicated. I look deeply into his eyes sometimes and wonder, "What, exactly, do you want?" And sometimes, I express this same quandary by addressing him as "you weirdo." He doesn't mind. He considers this
