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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Truth About Cats and Dogs by The University of Edinburgh

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About the Course

What is your cat revealing to you when she purrs? What is your dog expressing when he yawns or wags his tail? Understanding your cat and
dog’s behaviour and the way they communicate with you, will enable you to better understand their needs and strengthen your relationship
with them. This MOOC is divided into five topics, the appliance of science; behaviour and body language, senses and perception; challenges for
the human-animal relationship, including pet problem behaviour; and how to improve the quality of life for cats and dogs in our care. At the
start of the course we ask you to consider what you feel is important to your cat/dog and what your cat/dog means to you? ...
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Top reviews

MB

Dec 6, 2019

I am enjoying this course and am learning quite a bit. Behavior is one of my main interests as a trainer as I think understanding it helps to design training and living programs for the animal.

LR

Mar 26, 2020

I learned so much about how to decrease stress for my pets and increase their happiness. I also learned how to better communicate with them. Thank you for helping improve my pets quality of life!

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By Guillem

May 16, 2019

Too many words to explains so little content.

By Lars E

Dec 11, 2023

Nice mixture of new facts and commonsense.

By Lanxin F

Jun 28, 2024

知识不够深入及充足,且更多的只是以英国为例。补充材料还可以,但也仅限英国地区

By Chuting Z

Feb 7, 2020

Not worth the price, expensive

By Skyler H

Oct 8, 2021

This is a very very elementary course pitched to people without even the most basic knowledge of animal welfare or dog and cat behaviour. I suppose that is a necessary niche to be filled as people should be better educated if they are thinking about getting a pet, but the course description should be more accurate about the very novice/introductory level of the material, questions, and discussions. Anyone wanting to think about behaviour on a more rigorous or complex level (or with animals coming from more difficult backgrounds) should go elsewhere. Even when presented with a question about what could be done with an adult dog's behavioural problems, the instructors chose to answer only with "this is why it's important to socialise your puppy, so remember how important socialisation is to a dog's life." Yes, lovely, that's all well and good, but it's a politician-style dodge of a question, not a serious engagement with it.

By ray q

Aug 21, 2019

The more I get into this, it is nothing like I expected. Also very hard to understand (too quiet) especially the veterinarian. Also, what am I supposed to get out of this?

By Calvin C

Jan 4, 2018

I suppose it is okey, but it is not what I was really looking for

By Michael V

Jun 29, 2021

Some insights, but doesn't really fulfil its stated goal

By roca

Jun 23, 2019

a little too simple i hope more informations

By Alexis F

Mar 22, 2019

I really did not enjoy this course and am so disappointed that I didn't. I wanted to learn something new about cats and dogs, but I feel like a lot of this was common knowledge. Maybe I am just more advance than I thought. I think this is a great course for a first time pet owner, but not someone who has had a pet for a few years. Also, I feel like the views shared here are sometimes extreme and I felt that having a brachycephalic dog, I was almost marked as a someone contributing to the problem of the breed.

By Ruben F

Dec 20, 2022

Very introductory course, outdated since 2018.

Additionally the section to 'Ask the experts' is not in use so not questions/doubts can be asked .

By Holli M

Apr 15, 2022

None of the tests or anything load

By Πέτρος Ο

Feb 19, 2019

terrible