Meet Pilley Bianchi

Pilley Bianchi is an award-winning musician, producer, and writer from Brooklyn NY. She never imagined she would be utilizing these same skills to collaborate with her father Dr. John W. Pilley, and his dog Chaser in their groundbreaking, research.

Dr. Pilley cracked the code in teaching human language to dogs, empirically demonstrating that Chaser had learned the names of over 1000 objects as well as verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and common nouns. The methodology was play and the reinforcement was praise.

Bianchi has been a co-teacher, producer, writer, and media consultant for Chaser featured in Time, People, Popular Science, The New York Times, Modern Dog, USA Today, etc. and film shoots with 60 Minutes, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, ITV, Discovery, Nat Geo Wild, etc.

Bianchi collaborated with her father and his co-writer Hilary Hinzmann, behind the scenes on their New York Times bestselling book “Chaser, Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows 1000 Words” and has appeared as an expert on Chaser at SXSW, Hill’s Science Diet, Fox & Friends, PBS, Dogspot.in India, CBC Canada, SBS TV South Korea, WIRED, the AKC, the ASPCA, The IAABC, NPR Canada, Talk RADIO London, etc.

Bianchi is the founder of The Chaser Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to educating Children (K-12) about the legacy of John Pilley & Chaser and learning through play. Bianchi’s new best-selling book For the Love of Dog, The Ultimate Relationship Guide with New York Times illustrator Calum Heath and foreword by Marc Bekoff, has received critical acclaim and was called “truly a game changer” by NPR’s DOGTALK host Tracie Hotchner.

She lives with her husband Jay Bianchi, son Aidan Bianchi, and their two rescue cats, Billy & Miki Mouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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