The Dog Zombie

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Learning how to tell if a dog is in pain

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I completed my second spay lab, in which third year veterinary students spay a dog from a shelter or low income family. Unlike my first spay...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

How to learn how to do ... lots of procedures

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Recently I had my Small Animal Procedures lab, in which my classmates and I learned how to perform dentistry, take skin biopsy samples, do t...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Veterinary fact of the day: feeding guinea pigs

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We are having some of the final lectures for our zoo medicine course, and today’s was about pet rodents — guinea pigs, rats, chinchillas, mi...
Monday, November 15, 2010

How to learn how to ultrasound a dog

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I’ve seen a bunch of ultrasound images (still and moving) throughout vet school. Lecturers will flash up a picture and say things like “and ...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Links post

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Scared or feral: How do you know? (Pet Connection) Repost: The ethics of snail eradication (Adventures in Ethics and Science): “Plenty of...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

More on women in veterinary medicine

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Some while back I wrote a post asking why there are so many more women than men in veterinary medicine . Recently, that post received a comm...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

New comments policy

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I just turned on moderation for comments. I hate to do it, but lately I have been getting a lot of spam comments (put in by real people who ...
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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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