The Dog Zombie

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Diary of a shelter medicine intern: the first few weeks

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At my last report I had finished about two days of my internship and was still giddy with joy. During the rest of that week, I got to work o...
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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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Day Two

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I didn’t really feel like a vet until the second day of my veterinary internship in shelter medicine. I spent the first day being driven fro...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Where I'm coming from

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In his keynote address to the second UK Conference of Science Journalists, Jay Rosen wrote, “I think every writer, every journalist, every ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Generation Anthropocene: a review

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The Generation Anthropocene podcasts, interviews of Stanford faculty by Stanford students, were published back in May. I didn’t get around ...
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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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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Mobile veterinary practice and federal drug restrictions

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Mostly, when I took my cats to the vet, I would cram them into a carrier while they protested and drive them to a clinic. It was a rough tri...
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Marlborough, MA, United States
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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