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Friday, January 14, 2011

Links post

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Science Online 2011 is this weekend and I really wish I could be there. Luckily I can attend virtually . A post from this blog will be inc...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Would you cut off your dog’s leg?

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Yesterday we had a lecture on osteosarcoma, a cancer of the bone. Osteosarcoma is not a good cancer, guys. It is liable to occur in younger ...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Everything I touch is missing a uterus, or, What is a freemartin?

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Bovine procedures lab today and yesterday! (Why do they schedule these outdoor labs for the middle of the winter? Thank god for my insulated...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Living with a shy dog

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I adopted a shy dog two days ago. You can see how tense she is in my house in the first picture. I’m including a second picture to prove tha...
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...
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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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