Canine NeuroPark TM

23/03/2025

Conceptualizing, Categorizing, Simulation....
All just express the process of the same thing....

The meaning making.

Here it's Nairobi & Atomic "making meaning" of the noise and chemical & visual motion.

Last time they had experience of road works up close was outside my house and now generalize that prior experience with this today.

22/03/2025

Sorry Neuropark Members
I shut the booking system off for a while today
100rds of pings in an hour is just not sustainable mentally.

21/03/2025

To all Vets.

Please learn about allostasis !!

With love...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232601628_Allostasis_A_New_Paradigm_to_Explain_Arousal_Pathology

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21684297/

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2016.0011

Principle of Neural Design
Peter Stirling Simon Laughling, 2015

In this paper, we integrate recent theoretical and empirical developments in predictive coding and active inference accounts of interoception (including the Embodied Predictive Interoception Coding model) with working hypotheses from the theory of ...

16/03/2025

Canine Neuropark®© will slowly shift to only use youtube, bluesky and our own website blog and email tools to communicate to Canine Neuropark®© members & for educational purposes to dog owners & Canine Professionals.

Links will be shared here, but no more live posts as they now get deleted after a short while.

www.canineneuropark.com

https://youtube.com/-canineneuroparktm?si=6GPB777Zql1Njicp

https://bsky.app/profile/canineneuropark.bsky.social

Canine NeuroPark® is a Charitable Trust founded to create this unique Canine Rehabilitation Field to support dogs and their owners and share net profits with other canine rehoming charities.

14/03/2025

"Chronic Pain"

This is the best article of "persistant" [chronic] pain I have read in the media and so personal.

It touches on contemporary neuroscience of pain and mood and the brain as the predictive control system of its body.

While it is expressed through a human experience, it should make animal professional think deeply, about how often we take to medication in exchange for quick fixes that may or may not help the animals experiences.
Unfortunately, animals unlike humans, cannot tell us in detailed words whether something actually helps them or not.
They rely on our brains infering by using their individual past experiences, whether the change in their actions & movements actually means changes in experiences such as pain & mood.

I have to add, I am not saying medication has no place in treatment- but when a 15min vet check turns to the handout of prozac or pain meds I have to ask myself, HAVE WE ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, to ensure the professional is treating & passing on the latest scientific evidence.

Rattled by ongoing pain, 1News reporter Sam Olley took a deep dive into the neuroscience, flipping her perceptions entirely.

09/03/2025

The biggest challenge with our dogs is when to step back and just observe well l, and when to step in to avoid a negative experience ....

By stepping in we are talking about helping to regulate their nervous system in a positive & beneficial way.

What would that look like?

It's not about training
It's about taking on part of the metabollic load.

This could be by:

•splitting a situations;

•by anticipating oncoming traffic and laying out a quick treat search to redirect attention away from other movements

•by sitting with then and giving them a massage / back or belly rub

•by bringing them water or moving to a shady place if its sunny....

Etc

04/03/2025

Neuropark Members share...

Cases of Parvo in Christchurch

If your dog seems lerthagic and has diharrea please talk to your vet.
You must reschedule your Neuropark booking if your dog shows any signs of illness to prevent the spread of disease!!

03/03/2025

Neuropark Members...

Listed below are Canine Neuropark business hours.

As stated in the Pawzette, Neuropark is a Charitable Trust with no staff.

All maintenance, systems maintenance & updates, rescheduling codes etc as well as all physical maintenance are done by one person.

The booking system will be shut off for bookings during non business hours as every booking creates 4 notifications and I do prefer not to wake up to pinging when i sleep!!

And no, I can't shut off the phone as some bookings need manual reply.

So please, for my sleep sake, stick to our opening hours for bookings too.

28/02/2025

An important update has been emailed to Neuropark Members.
Please read it
Thanks
Bono

28/02/2025

Great article I just re-read, written by Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett

"Why simplistic fight or flight idea undervalued the brains predictive powers"

Happy reading geeks!!

The brain’s primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever changing world

25/02/2025

video (a) bringing down arousal exercise.
as you can hear- i D.O.N.T. say a word.
i dont move.
all i do is lay out the treats over the big ramp and wait and observe.
et voila-> exercise done

24/02/2025

one strategy of uncertainty reduction through action-
a systems dynamic approach to understanding dog behaviour Speakingdog K9 Behaviour & Discussion Forum

11/02/2025

The general purpose of a well fitting harness is neither to look pretty on the dog nor a device to stop pulling.

It's main purpose is to distribute the forces from pulling forward through the sternum rather then the throat and neck and keep the scapula as free moving as possible.

Some straps will move when the dogs turn- the front D-ring sitting on the chest bone should however keep its position even during movements when the dog is turning

07/02/2025

Sundays' OPEN DAY timeline:

🔵Gate opens @ 11am

🟢11:15am short introduction to why and how to use Neuropark®©

🟡11:40am "How to assess your dogs musculoskeletal health"-
-> learn what to look for, before obvious signs like lameness occur

🟣12:30[ish] - 3pm we start with assessing greyhounds in the maze one by one.
Limited numbers available -> first in first served

🔻⚠️⚠️If you are a dog owner with another dog breed and want a free assessment, please contact us on
www.canineneuropark.com by tomorrow Sat 8th Feb 6pm ⚠️⚠️🔺️
We will send you detailed instructions.
⬇️⚠️🔻

For safety reasons we will not mix breeds within Neuropark

Canine NeuroPark® is a Charitable Trust founded to create this unique Canine Rehabilitation Field to support dogs and their owners and share net profits with other canine rehoming charities.

05/02/2025

Big Thank you!! to Rebecca Herbison & friends, the new windbreaker webbing has been reinstalled.

02/02/2025

So
Someone stripped 40m of wind break webbing inside our Neuropark Social.
Yup steal from a Chartiable Trust
I will not replace it- f**k it!!

If people keep abusing our rehab parks we are gonna close them down and take them overseas- I'm sick of this

Well done human

28/01/2025

Attending to you and your dog on Feb 9th Open Day is:

Bobbi Kerr
CVN
Rehabilitation Technician

Bobbi completed her CVN at SIT, Invercargill in 2012. Bobbie has been a Physio & Rehab Technician for 9 years.