Today, Dr. Patricia McConnell came to campus to have a luncheon with students and give a talk at the end of the day. Neeco and I went to the luncheon and got to meet Dr. McConnell personally and talk a little bit with her before I had to leave to go to class, but the few minutes we got to interact was truly amazing.
Later in the day, I went to watch her talk. It was truly amazing how she was able to connect human trauma back to animals. Dogs go through traumatic experiences too and she was just able to talk about the trauma she went through and how it helped her with dealing with dogs and their behaviors that result from trauma that they experience. It was truly amazing to hear her talk about resiliency and how we can build it as humans (because some people are born with it), but also how we can help our dogs build it too. I'll put the list for both below! I got to have her sign one of her books for me and we talked a little bit then too. How to get Resiliency:
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