The Dog Zombie

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Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Cuteness interlude

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You all like photos of foster kittens, right? You can only see four of them there. For some reason one is always off doing something el...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The Feral Freedom program: leave outdoor cats where they are!

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Even in parts of the country in which the dog overpopulation problem is mostly under control, the cat overpopulation problem is still rampan...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Ten's company for cats in shelters

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Austin Bouck at Animal Science Review recently posted about the benefits of group housing for cats in shelters . (Well, sort of recently. I ...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Animal shelter surgery: autoligation

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When I watched my first video on how to spay a dog, lo these many (two) years ago, I kept saying “what’s a pedicle?” Apparently it was very ...
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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...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Volunteering at a trap/neuter/release clinic

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This weekend I volunteered at a TNR (trap/neuter/release) clinic. TNR is one way to deal with the feral cat population: volunteer trappers t...
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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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