About Pawclue
A one-minute daily puzzle for decoding pet behavior.
Why this exists
Most pet owners learn behavior by trial and error — often misreading their own cat or dog for years. The cost: avoidable bites, missed stress signals, and pets that get labeled "weird" when they were just communicating in a language nobody taught us to read.
Pawclue is a sixty-second daily puzzle that teaches one piece of that language per day. After 30 days you've covered the basics. After a year, you read your pet better than most.
How the answers are sourced
Every puzzle cites peer-reviewed research or a recognized behaviorist's work. Primary references:
- • Cat Sense — John Bradshaw
- • On Talking Terms with Dogs — Turid Rugaas (calming signals)
- • Decoding Your Dog — American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
- • ASPCA behavior library
- • AVSAB position statements
- • Peer-reviewed studies from Current Biology, Animal Cognition, Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Where the science is contested (and behaviorism has many open questions), the explanation says so. The goal is calibrated knowledge, not false certainty.
What Pawclue won't do
- • Replace a veterinary behaviorist for serious aggression or anxiety problems.
- • Promote dominance-based training methods. The science is settled — reward-based is better.
- • Show animals in distress. No fear, no pain, no clickbait.
- • Sell your data. See Privacy.
Found a mistake?
Pet science updates. If you find a claim that contradicts current research, tell me and I'll fix it and credit the correction in the puzzle's footer.