This article examines the relations between methods used in both animal work and study
and concepts of animal mind. By "animal work" the authors mean humans and animals
working together, and by "animal study" they mean the discipline of ethology, especially
the emerging area of cognitive ethology. Within these areas the wide range of conceptions
of animal mind includes varying emphases on intelligence, forms of rationality and
language, cognition, consciousness, and intentionality. The authors' central concern is
to elucidate the vocabulary and the concepts which seem necessary to establishing
successful working relationships with sheepdogs and gundogs. Their argument moves
toward an emphasis on the appreciation of particular intentional states and recognizes
that they invariably deploy elements of a moral vocabulary in achieving creative
teamwork performances with dogs and other animals. The article concludes by consid
enng the relevance of accounts of work with animals for associated considerations of
intentionality.
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