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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Links post

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As usual, may of these are old, because I don’t have time to keep up to date on my blog reading. Dog Fear Isn’t Funny or Cute (Champion of...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Dairy Welfare Farm Tour, part 2: growing calves

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(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...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Why do veterinarians call them “necropsies”?

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When you dissect a human cadaver to investigate the cause of death, you are performing an autopsy. But when you dissect a non-human cadaver ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A week in the life: pathology rotation

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I am in my first week (of three) of my pathology rotation. This is known as the laid back rotation: only 8am to 5pm five days a week, with s...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Dairy Welfare Farm Tour, part 1: humane handling certification

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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 ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Living with a shy dog: clicking with Jenny

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I am clicking everything with Jenny now! The click marks the behavior which I want to reward. If I just toss her a treat when she does somet...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

What vet students talk about with their boyfriends

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Me: So I’m trying to schedule this dairy farm welfare elective, but the day all the interested students are free to do it, the faculty memb...
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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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