The Dog Zombie

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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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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Organic standards and animal welfare

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Over on Animal Science Review , Austin J. Bouck just posted his paper, Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that nega...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Report from the trenches of local politics: pit pull ordinance hearing

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Last night I attended a city council meeting in Worcester, in which the public was allowed to speak about the proposed pit bull ordinance . ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Muzzling the real solution to the problem

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Some new legislation has been proposed in Worcester, the city next door to my town. This legislation proposes specific restrictions on pit b...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The devocalization debate

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Today, a newspaper local to me published a story about the devocalization debate in Massachusetts . The Massachusetts legislature is current...
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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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