The Dog Zombie

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Showing posts with label animal rescue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal rescue. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2016

The Replacement Dog: how a veterinarian / dog rescuer / geneticist searched for the right puppy

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The death of my fifteen year old golden retriever Jack wasn’t just about my loss. It was about finding someone else to do his job, which for...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

The spectrum of hoarding

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There was almost no furniture in the entire house. This was unusual for hoarder houses, which are usually packed full of stuff or just of tr...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The cat in the tree

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The skinny little tree was only about 30 feet tall and growing in the middle of a swamp. Recent flooding had surrounded it with water severa...
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Marlborough, MA, United States
Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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