The Dog Zombie

Note: this post was originally published on the Dog International Blog . What can we do about the welfare problem of flat-faced dogs? T...

I’ve been cogitating recently on the statement I’ve seen in a few places that “it makes sense to show a dog in conformation shows before ...

A cat who is clearly not in a shelter. Last night I wrote the first draft of a document on appropriate housing for shelter animals fo...

A week or so ago I encountered a letter to the editor in our local newspaper that made me peevish. Its author opined that chickens have b...

As I move through my training and think ahead to my future career, I wonder: who will pay for all this research I want to do on dogs? I have...

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...

Over on Animal Science Review , Austin J. Bouck just posted his paper, Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that nega...

Researchers at a veterinary hospital were studying the prevalence of particular diseases in different breeds of dogs, and owner recognition ...

(Continued from The Dairy Welfare Farm Tour, part 1 .) We pulled up at the farm where Dr. Mulain performs a weekly herd check every Tuesd...

I woke up at 6 am, and it felt luxuriously late after my 5:30 am wake up the previous morning. This was the morning of the second of my two ...

This afternoon I read Animal Research: Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights, by Walter Jessen of Highlight Health. The article addressed some m...

The Thoughtful Animal has been writing about domesticated foxes and has pointed out that they are commercially available. Dude! I want one ...

“The assessment of emotional expression in dogs using a Free Choice Profiling methodology” (Walker et. al., Animal Welfare ). Do different p...

Dogged Blog: Real blogs allow comments : Thoughts on what makes blogging different from “just publishing.” Dolittler: Oops....