TAO Animal Center

Bark's Glossary

Relational Neuroethology

A practice framework that integrates neuroscience, ethology, trauma science, and somatic communication to understand animals – especially dogs – through their internal states rather than their behaviors.

It rejects training, conditioning, and obedience models and instead focuses on nervous-system safety, co-regulation, individual history, and the relational dynamics between human and animal.

The core assumption: behavior is communication, not defiance – and true change emerges through relationship, not control.

Bark Twain says