Nora Vance

Contributing writer, Animal Mind Notes

Nora Vance is a contributing writer at Animal Mind Notes. Nora works from a home office where the dog naps under the desk chair for most of the day, which turns out to be a good seat for noticing how a dog actually spends its time.

Nora writes about animal minds in plain language: what cognition and welfare studies measured, what the headlines skipped, and what any of it means for the small decisions you make at home. Cats and other animals come up too, because the research does.

What Nora covers

• Animal cognition research
• Dog cognition experiments
• Animal welfare measurement
• Enrichment studies
• Cat cognition
• Reading animal science headlines
• Small air purifier setup in dog homes

How Nora works

Nora reads the study before the press release, reports the numbers the researchers reported, and links to the source so you can check it yourself. When a paper doesn't support the claim being made about it, the article says so. Read the full editorial standards.

Puppy Kind articles by Nora

• Why Is the Puppy Kind Purifier So Small? A Hands-On Look at Its 75 x 75 x 150 mm Footprint
• Puppy Kind USB-C Setup, Up Close: What 5 V / 1 A Means Beside the Dog's Bed
• Why Sniffing Games Are So Good for Dogs, and How a Snuffle Mat Brings Them Indoors

Nora writes from lived use under a pen name.