Caring for Canines with Pilley Bianchi, Wendy Lyons Sunshine, and Carri Westgarth PhD at Bark! Fest

Watch or take heed to the recording of Pilley Bianchi speaking about her guide For The Love of Canine (illustrated by Calum Heath), Wendy Lyons Sunshine on her guide Tender Paws, and Prof. Carri Westgarth on The Pleased Canine Proprietor.

By Zazie Todd PhD

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Bark! Fest with Pilley Bianchi, Wendy Lyons Sunshine, and Carri Westgarth, PhD

Bark! Fest, the guide competition for animal lovers, came about in
September 2024 with 11 creator panels (and one methods class from the
wonderful Erica Beckwith of A Matter of Manners Canine Coaching). It was organized to have fun the launch of my new guide, Bark! The Science of Serving to Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Canine, which is out now and accessible wherever books are offered.

That is the recording of the panel Caring for Canines with Pilley Bianchi, Wendy Lyons Sunshine, and Carri Westgarth, PhD.

You may watch the recording on Youtube, take heed to this episode of The Pawsitive Put up in Dialog wherever you get your podcasts (Apple, Spotify), or do each of these and browse a transcript of the highlights beneath.

Get the books

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The dialog with Pilley Bianchi, Wendy Lyons Sunshine, and Carri Westgarth, PhD

Develop a greater bond along with your canine with these 3 canine authors. For the Love of Canine is Pilley Bianchi’s love letter to our canine mates, sharing knowledge from her father John W. Pilley’s work with Chaser the Border Collie and illustrated by NYTimes illustrator Calum Heath. In Tender Paws, Wendy Lyons Sunshine examines what canine guardians can study from the science of human parenting. And Carri Westgarth attracts on her analysis into human-animal interplay that will help you enhance your pet’s wellbeing and turn into The Pleased Canine Proprietor. 

This dialog was recorded at Bark! Fest, the guide competition for animal lovers, which celebrated the launch of Zazie Todd’s new guide Bark! The Science of Serving to Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Canine.

On this dialog, we talked about:

•     How Pilley Bianchi’s guide, For the Love of Canine, illustrated by Calum Heath, took place
•     The function of Chaser the Border Collie within the guide and suggestions from her studying of phrases
•     The parenting analysis that Wendy Lyons Sunshine drew on to jot down her guide for canine dad and mom
•     Easy methods to perceive parenting kinds when caring for a canine
•     Why Dr. Carri Westgarth determined to deal with how you can make canine homeowners pleased
•     Suggestions from her guide about discovering a responsibly bred pet, which behaviors are most vital to show, and recommendations on coaching an alert

The opposite books talked about on this episode are:-

•     Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Canine Who Is aware of 1000 Phrases by John W Pilley and Hilary Hinzmann (talked about by Zazie and Pilley)
•     Wag: The Science of Making Your Canine Pleased by Zazie Todd (talked about by Carri)
•     Kitty Language by Lili Chin (talked about by Kristi)

The authors’ web sites:

Pilley Bianchi 

Wendy Lyons Sunshine 

Carri Westgarth, PhD 

The co-hosts are Zazie Todd, PhD, and Kristi Benson.

Highlights of the dialog with Pilley Bianchi

Z: Your guide, For the Love of Canine, is a pleasant story of our relationship with canines. How did the guide come about?

P: Effectively, there’s a lengthy and winding street to this guide and I will not undergo all of it, however this was the guide that I had been engaged on with my father.

That was the second guide his writer was wanting. So we had been arising with one thing that was extra prescriptive and a how you can for folks. After which he ended up passing away unexpectedly. However he was 90, you recognize, so.

After which Chaser went a couple of 12 months after him. So I used to be left with some nice tales and materials, however probably not certain what to do with it now that the person and the canine have been not with us.

So I ended up doing a little spitballing classes with my mates Cat Warren and Maria Goodavage about type of brainstorming possibly the brand new guide. We. We grew to become mates via all of our.

Our connections to canines and determined that this could actually be an illustrated guide. It needed to be accessible.

That was one factor that my father emphasised earlier than he handed away, is that science wanted to work tougher to ship invaluable info to the lots in ways in which they will see themselves, we will see ourselves.

So I knew that he had extra science and philosophy and knowledge, so I assumed it ought to be illustrated. So I reached out to my buddy Calum Heath within the UK and mentioned, would you have an interest?

And he mentioned, nicely, sure, Capsule. I feel we must always give it a go.

Z: Superior. Thanks. And Chaser is definitely a really sturdy presence all through the guide. So please are you able to inform us about her?

P: Effectively, Chaser was at first a member of the family. She was my father’s canine. And he obtained Chaser when he was 76 years previous.

It had been 10 years since his coronary heart canine had type of handed away and he thought he’d by no means get one other canine.

And he’d labored with canines in his Wofford Faculty classroom for over 25 years and his aim had been to show them human language. However he, he’d gone about it the mistaken manner.

So when he obtained Chaser, he began attending, nicely, earlier than he obtained Chaser attending Border collie trials, and it was actually the Border Collie farmers that type of pointed him in the suitable path.

He wanted to concentrate to this extra salt of the earth method and really what introduced these canines pleasure and that means. So when he obtained Chaser, that was his aim, was to show her human language.

And he knew the place he had gone mistaken beforehand. And, boy, he obtained it proper with Chaser. She cherished enjoying and, and he used that love of play for her, instructing her the names of over a thousand objects, which is simply unbelievable.

Sure. And so when their analysis was printed and went globally viral, it shocked all people. And so Chaser reached type of worldwide recognition and fame via studying the names of her toys.

Z: And one of many issues that you just say in your guide is that each canine is a person. So I am questioning if you should utilize Chaser for example for example this.

P: You understand, canines are identical to people. You understand, all people sort of has their factor. And the identical is true for canines. Canines have related, sure related traits, like all of them like smelly issues and to roll in lifeless issues and so they wish to chase issues.

So these are some commonalities, however every canine has their very own persona. And Chaser, we found, was a really assured canine, however she was not assertive like our earlier canine.

So we actually have to choose up on these little cues that canines are giving us. She cherished to play with youngsters. She didn’t like different canines. You understand, she would stoically tolerate the perfunctory sniffing of the bums, you recognize, however she.

You can inform from her physique language she simply was not. She was frozen and never snug with it. So she was a gentle canine, not a tough canine.

She wasn’t going to be adventurous like our earlier canine, Yasha, however she was very social. So all people ought to choose up on what their canine is attempting to inform them via their physique language and their vocalizations.

And we offer you these suggestions within the guide in methods that you would be able to determine who your canine is.

Z: I like that. And also you noticed Chaser being skilled all through her life. So if somebody desires to get began on instructing their canine to grasp phrases, do you have got a tip based mostly on Chaser’s story?

P: Positive. Utilizing my dad’s strategies. They’re tremendous easy. And the way in which Chaser realized was via a course of referred to as errorless studying. And that is internet hosting a state of affairs the place she couldn’t make a mistake.

So when he would current a brand new toy, there have been no different toys within the room, and he would say, Chaser, that is blue.

After which he’d put blue on a bit of furnishings, and he’d say, discover blue. And he or she’d go over and he or she’d take blue, take blue, catch blue.

And so he would play video games and hold solely utilizing this one toy for, like, three days. And so she would attain the purpose, and you may attain the purpose along with your canine after they can discover it in one other room, then you possibly can go on to a different toy, however hold it quite simple and reinforce that identify always.

Z: I feel she was very intelligent and had an amazingly intelligent household, too.

So the guide is illustrated by Calum Heath, who’s an illustrator for the New York Instances. And I do know you have obtained a workshop arising really, on producing nonfiction books with an illustrator, however what was it like for you working with an illustrator on this guide?

P: Oh, gosh, it was so wonderful. And particularly somebody as inventive as Calum. I might simply give him the prose, no matter I used to be engaged on, and he would flip it into one thing that I might have by no means imagined.

He is simply so inventive, and it actually brings the message dwelling. It is also such a simple manner for folks to study as a result of when studying is enjoyable, it occurs quickly. So that is what we have been going for within the guide.

And Calum there. I do not suppose there have been possibly one illustration out of most likely 175 that I mentioned it isn’t fairly proper. However. And generally we might work via them, you recognize, the place I would say, give me slightly extra of.

Of the canine as an alternative of the human. However he is so good. It was a variety of enjoyable working with Calum.

Z: Good. And it is a actually enjoyable guide and I feel the illustrations and the textual content work so nicely collectively. That is actually, very nice.

Highlights of the dialog with Wendy Lyons Sunshine

Okay: Earlier than this, you had written a bestselling guide about The Related Baby, in addition to a information for these with adopted youngsters, Elevating the Difficult Baby. So how did the swap to a canine guide, Tender Paws, come about?

W: Effectively, apparently, my husband and I adopted slightly canine proper concerning the time that I completed engaged on that first guide. And I used to be struggling a lot, and the pet guides really weren’t serving to me.

And I hit a second, truthfully, I requested my husband if we might deliver this canine again to the pound. I imply, I used to be so determined, and I did not have the methods, and he nonetheless believed in her.

And in desperation, actually, I went and checked out a parenting guide that I had simply helped write. And it gave me inspiration and a few concepts and only a new perspective and extra compassion.

And I discovered that there was so many parallels and worth within the knowledge they’d for youngsters. And so later I, engaged on one other youngsters, you recognize, guide for parenting youngsters, I discovered extra completely different sorts of insights.

And so it simply led naturally, as a result of then I needed to know, am I making this up? Am I imagining this? Or, you recognize, is there any science behind this?

Okay: Yeah, I really, I learn your guide as an e book, and I highlighted in one of many pages about it was a line one thing like, this wasn’t a pet who was attempting to, you recognize, be evil or dangerous.

You understand, this was a pet who was combating unmet wants. And I used to be like, oh, I like that a lot, combating unmet wants. It was identical to, as a canine skilled, I used to be like, sure, that’s such an ideal reframe.

So your guide attracts closely on analysis on parenting kinds. Are you able to inform us what parenting kinds are?

W: Sure. It is an fascinating manner that specialists have come to. You understand, researchers take a look at the completely different approaches that folks use. So there are two sort of measures that they take a look at.

They take a look at how responsive the guardian is, and infrequently that is considered nurturing.

So how responsive a guardian is to the kid’s wants and personal perspective. After which on the opposite measure is how demanding that guardian is and the way a lot they insist on guidelines or tips.

And so when you take a low stage or excessive stage of every of these two measures, you map them and also you get 4 quadrants, basically, you get 4 kinds. And one of many kinds is neglectful since you’re not both.

You do not demand a lot and you do not give a lot. And so that is the least.

However then you have got these different variations. And one, for instance, is a really permissive guardian. And they’re all about indulging the kid and assembly their wants in a specific manner.

However they do not have expectations, calls for. They do not set guidelines or tips the identical manner.

The opposite excessive is the place they’re all about guidelines, they’re all about tips. They’re like, that is my manner, and that is it. And that is thought of authoritarian fashion. The fourth fashion, which may be complicated as a result of the phrases sound very related, is authoritative.

And that is the place you give a variety of nurturing and also you’re very aware of what the wants and the expertise of the baby are. However you are additionally serving to form the expectations.

You are setting tips, you are establishing limits, however you are doing it in a compassionate manner. So it is this mix of each of these dimensions, and that is referred to as authoritative. In my guide I wish to name it therapeutic. Simply to assist distinguish it from the complicated, you recognize, authoritarian authoritative.

Okay: And that really, like, leads very properly into the subsequent query, which is about authoritative parenting kinds. And when. After I first learn these questions, I used to be like, Zazie, I actually dislike that phrase. Do we now have to?! You understand, each Zazie and I’ve this minor obsession with phrases and wording. And like, I feel her whole PhD was on metaphor. So we frequently speak about language.

Trigger it is simply one thing that we’re fascinated in. I used to be like, here is this phrase. And the canine world is so characterised by battle over, you recognize, like, phrases and strategies. And I used to be like, oh, do we now have to ask this query?

And so we ended up coming to type of the choice that I might deliver it up as a. There’s an issue. There’s type of a problematic. You understand, this phrase is problematic for me to say it, however I nonetheless needed to ask you about it. So for canine guardians, why is that this authoritative? Or I like your, you recognize, revision, calling it therapeutic? Why? What does that imply in relation to canines?

W: So it is one thing that we. That actually a variety of knowledgeable canine handlers do already. I imply, what it’s, is it is discovering win wins, basically, proper? It is. It is recognizing the underlying want and discovering a approach to meet that want kindly and successfully, but additionally serving to information the animal towards conduct that’s extra welcome and appropriate for a state of affairs. 

So it may be one thing so simple as a redirect. You may have the canine, a pet, chewing in your furnishings and as an alternative you provide them this chew toy. The pet’s pleased, you are pleased. And it is also studying like, that is not the place to chew.

This can be a good place to chew. And so that you’re assembly each these standards of you are demanding a sure factor, nevertheless it’s not in a imply manner, it is in a supportive manner. And also you’re additionally nurturing them as finest you possibly can.

And when you look intently at a variety of completely different strategies, there’s thought behind them that basically blends these issues. And as we all know, stability is one other phrase that may get actually sophisticated within the canine world.

So I wish to say mix these two components to attain a therapeutic method. It is sort of like giving the animal the good thing about the doubt. Proper?

That is actually like understanding that they are not out to get you. They’re attempting to fulfill their wants and so they’re attempting to speak one thing.

And we generally gloss over that as a result of we’re so centered on our personal wants. So we simply wish to deliver these two extra to equal stage.

Okay: I like the way it brings the human. And I feel we’ll get extra, much more into this with Carri’s guide. However it type of is an acknowledgement that us because the human element matter too.

You understand, like, I do not need my furnishings essentially being chewed. I imply, that ship has sailed in my home. However you recognize, there’s. It is okay as a human to be like, I actually want my canine would not do that, however how?

And I like how as an alternative of claiming, how do I get my canine to not do this? It is like, how do I meet my canine’s wants in a manner, you recognize, that permits them to nonetheless be a canine and have all of those behaviors, however simply type of giving them the choice of doing it in a manner that does not impinge upon us as beings, you recognize, within the relationship.

Proper. As a guardian, that is the job of a guardian, proper. To simply sort of assist steer all people within the family to basic nicely being.

And so there are particular expectations. Should you’re in that household, you are not strolling on the eating room desk. You may eat there. Proper? So you have got a bit in your guide the place you think about coaching strategies from a parenting kinds perspective. So are you able to say one thing about that?

W: Yeah. I discovered this measure could be very fascinating. After we take a look at a coaching approach, we will ask ourselves, is that this, is that this serving the canine’s wants extra or my wants extra?

And might we discover once more, a win, win state of affairs the place it extra successfully serves Us each. So you possibly can analyze completely different varieties of apparatus. For instance, occupied with if it is a actually punitive system, then that is most likely extra about my wants than addressing, you recognize, the expertise of the animal. It is not as aware of their wants.

So it could mechanically make me step again and say, nicely, then what can I discover that does meet my wants, but additionally respects and honors the wants of the animal?

So that will grow to be a therapeutic alternative, one which meets each these standards.

Okay: Proper. I like that body. So how have your personal experiences with pets influenced the writing of this guide?

W: Yeah, nicely, that first pet, Hazel, she. She was the catalyst for all of this. After which there’s Bernie sitting again there. He is. He’s like, chapter two in that complete expertise. And, you recognize, it is a fixed.

I suppose it is humbling, proper? Father or mother. Father or mother. I have never been a human guardian, however even pet parenting, there are not any recipes. And that is a part of what I attempt to convey, too, is that we attempt to simply accommodate all these completely different wants.

I wish to put it within the bundle of what I name hearts parenting, or HEARTS. Approaches that heal the physique, enrich and optimize the mind. Applicable environments with felt security, respectful and safe relationships, educate sensitively and positively, after which help the person.

Should you put all that collectively, which is what knowledgeable dad and mom do, then that helps me take into consideration these pets and, you recognize, am I giving them what they want?

Effectively, Hazel’s handed, however Ernie will get the most effective of what I can provide right here now. However it’s an exquisite studying expertise. And naturally, all of us love our canines a lot and our cats.

Okay: Yeah, that was great. Thanks a lot.

Highlights of the dialog with Carri Westgarth, PhD

Z: Now, your guide, The Pleased Canine Proprietor is slightly bit completely different as a result of your focus is on the canine guardian and the way they are often pleased. Why did you determine to take this method?

C: Primarily as a result of there’s many fabulous books on the market, together with yours [Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy], which have actually centered on the canine aspect of, of this.

However it’s, there’s two sides to this coin. It is a, it is a canine. Most canines, at the least in our societies, have homeowners and it is a relationship.

And what I cherished about Wendy’s guide is that first chapter simply completely units up how arduous it’s as a canine proprietor, particularly while you, you get a pet. And we simply, we simply do not speak about this sufficient.

So, yeah, I needed to speak about, sure, the canine welfare aspect of issues, but additionally the human aspect of issues. What we have to, to know and count on after we’re getting a canine.

These of us that work with folks and their canines know that it, it would not all the time work out just like the fairy tales and unicorn tales about these great canines that folks have and the way cute it’s on Fb and Instagram after they’ve obtained this pet.

So what do we wish? What will we want all canine homeowners knew to essentially assist set them up? What kind of work do they should put in earlier than they get the canine? Once they’ve obtained the canine?

In the event that they wish to actually take pleasure in that canine proudly owning expertise and have a cheerful canine, but additionally be a cheerful canine proprietor.

Z: Yeah. And I feel it is so true that so many individuals really get a canine after which suppose, oh, no, what have I executed? As a result of they battle in these early days and weeks.

And though the title is the Pleased Canine Proprietor, I feel it is about pleased canines and pleased canine guardians too, in your guide. However there’s this extensively held view that canines enhance our psychological well being. What’s your tackle that and the way can they do this?

C: Sure, it is a extensively held perception. I definitely personally consider my canines assist enhance my psychological well being. However after we go into the science round this within the guide, it is really not as simple because the media makes out.

So there is not any precise conclusive proof that having a canine positively impacts our despair ranges, our anxiousness ranges, for instance, which is kind of fascinating. A part of that’s all the way down to the constraints of the research designs, the funding we have within the space as a way to attempt to actually tease out what is going on on when it comes to causal relationships.

I feel partly these of us who’ve tendencies in the direction of anxiousness and despair, we hunt down the corporate of animals. In order that complicates the proof. The place we do have proof is round social interactions.

So canines create a way of group, they will encourage us to work together with others. There’s an actual icebreaker impact. Should you exit and stroll your canines, you recognize, you most likely know of different canines on the market that you just meet in your day by day walks and you may. You may say hello to the homeowners, you most likely know the names of the canines, however not the homeowners. And we really feel much less lonely due to that companionship, not simply from them, however. However with the opposite folks that they get us to work together with via canine coaching golf equipment and issues, for instance.

Additionally they do actually enjoyable stuff and make us chortle, which I feel throughout the pandemic, our analysis with people who find themselves proudly owning canines throughout the pandemic, it actually introduced them out, you recognize, they have been simply one thing to deal with and a extremely enjoyable distraction aside from, you recognize, the terrifying information.

They provide us a way of goal and accountability as nicely. So, you recognize, people who find themselves struggling in numerous durations of their lives, you recognize, they really feel they do want to hold on due to the canine.

You have to stand up, you have to get out, and that is one of many predominant issues. They do make us be extra bodily energetic. And we all know getting out, being bodily energetic, being round nature, these pure, good environments, woodlands, fields, all these locations that we actually take pleasure in taking our canines, that is actually good for our wellbeing and that sense of mindfulness and being within the second.

So that is the mechanisms behind the impacts on our psychological wellbeing. However they are not going to unravel your stress and worries and simply take them away utterly. And that is what we have to keep in mind.

Z: And the guide attracts rather a lot by yourself analysis in addition to your personal expertise as a canine coach too. And you have a flowchart for how you can discover a responsibly bred, bred pedigree pet within the UK.

And I do know that is one thing you have executed analysis on. We most likely do not have time for all the main points of the flowchart, however I questioned when you might please share us some fast recommendations on what folks ought to search for in the event that they’re getting a pet.

C: Yeah. So I’ve a breeder and canine behaviourist buddy, Claire Stewart, to essentially thank for placing collectively the flowchart. Whether or not you possibly can see there is a good little Flowchart. She made folks suppose that you just, simply by being canine proprietor, then you possibly can have an amazing canine.

However we really know the genetics, the road breeding, the very early socialization that the, that the breeder is doing is, is so extremely vital to what then occurs afterward in that canine’s life when it is with you.

So it is actually vital to, to discover a good breeder, nevertheless it’s, it is a minefield. So it is sort of a flowchart with among the, you recognize, guiding you thru inquiries to ask what to search for and among the pink flags that you could be make.

You wish to think about inquiring extra and even strolling away from that litter, equivalent to what kind of well being testing has been executed. Clearly that varies between breeds as to what must be executed.

However how you can then interpret these well being checks for various breeds? What are issues like accountable breeding practices, such because the puppies should all be within the UK at the least. They must be microchipped earlier than they depart the breeder. They must be at the least eight weeks previous.

The dam ought to be between two and eight years previous. You should not be breeding from a extremely younger canine or a extremely previous canine. What number of litters have they’d?

And simply discovering out how is the breeder in you and what kind of life you are going to give that, that canine. As a result of if they are not being extremely cautious about who they need their canines to go to, then that is a pink flag that they actually, they’re probably not in it for the aim of breeding very nice canines for folks.

They’re in it doubtlessly simply, you recognize, for the cash.

Z: Yep, yep. In order that’s actually vital to know. And within the guide you counsel three vital issues that each canine ought to study. So how did you determine which three behaviors you have been going to choose as an important ones?

C: In order that was principally having taught plenty of canine coaching lessons and labored with homeowners through the years, what’s it that I can inform that they are actually wanting after they come to these lessons or after they’re asking for assist.

So primarily they need to have the ability to go for a stroll with out being dragged round. So they need a pleasant, nice expertise. That is most likely why they obtained a canine this concept of those pretty stress-free walks, which may be nice. So unfastened lead strolling, heel work, issues like that.

Additionally they need to have the ability to let their canine off the lead. My analysis reveals that watching your canine working round, off the lead, off the leash, is likely one of the actual vicarious Pleasure, joyful moments of canine possession.

They will not be capable to do this with out worrying they are not going to have the ability to get the canine again or it is going to chase squirrels and issues. So recall coaching, what is the fundamentals of that?

After which the third one is one thing that I discover essentially the most helpful in my day by day lives with canines. I not often ask them to take a seat down, keep, something like that. However the factor that is actually helpful is them having some management over what they wish to do and what you need them to do, controlling their impulses and to have the ability to simply be affected person only for a second while we do stuff earlier than we’re prepared to maneuver.

So the wait cue, are you able to be capable to ask your canine to simply. You simply wait there for a second. However okay, now you possibly can bounce out of the automotive or okay, now you possibly can go and run round that subject.

Z: Yep, yep. And people aren’t the one coaching plans that you have within the guide since you’ve additionally obtained plans for behaviors like opening doorways and reminding the guardian to take their treatment and coaching and alert conduct.

So it is a actually sensible guide. And might you give us a couple of tips on coaching and alert?

C: Yeah. So I needed to have some coaching concepts in right here for those that needed to take it that bit additional in having their canine help them with their well being wants.

And a helpful basis for plenty of completely different help service canine kind duties is an alert. So you should utilize it for issues like medical detection or possibly when you’re deaf, you may use that that will help you learn about when somebody’s on the door, ring the doorbell, for instance.

One of many issues I discover that folks battle with, they suppose their canine is telling them that one thing’s taking place, nevertheless it’s not very clear that the canine is indicating. So it’s essential to choose a conduct that your canine, it is actually clear they are not simply observing you a bit and also you’re considering, are they alerting? Are they not?

A short nudge of the nostril maybe you are not going to note.

After I labored as a distance canine coach, two of those we typically use for slightly canine was to leap up and actually scrabble at you with their entrance paws.

So that they like doing that with a giant canine. To take a seat and clearly put one paw on you is one other manner of doing that. So principally you educate that behaviour you need via luring via rewards, getting actually assured at doing that specific conduct.

After which it’s essential to introduce some type of cue, maybe a sound or a phrase meaning do this conduct, after which lastly you introduce that job, no matter that state of affairs is.

So, instance, the doorbell. So that you get somebody to ring the doorbell. Should you needed your canine to inform you concerning the doorbell, you get them to see your buddy to ring the doorbell and your canine would run to the door going, oh, my God, there’s wonderful.

There’s somebody on the door. However then type of be like, come on. After which you may usher in your little sound or cue or no matter meaning alert me. After which they go, oh, no, I will come and provide you with a warning.

After which they will take to the door. So sort of again chaining that in. And having a helper may be actually helpful via all of this.

Z: Yeah. And I like that, the way in which that this brings collectively your sensible expertise and the science as nicely.