The Dog Zombie

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

...or you could zeuter the dog, instead

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The dog was on his back, sedated on a table. I was not wearing a surgical cap or a sterile gown. I held the first testicle between two fing...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Diary of a shelter medicine veterinary intern: late fall

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I seem to have spent two months with no time to blog. What in the world was I doing? The last you heard from me, dear readers, I was in th...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Will we ever be able to measure cortisol in real time?

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In my Copious Free Time (CFT), I sometimes like to try to figure out how close we are to implementing some of the crazy technology I’d love ...
Monday, October 1, 2012

When the patient is a shelter: week one

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The next question I get after “what do you do?” is always “what’s shelter medicine?” I have been playing around with different ways to sum u...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Cuteness interlude

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You all like photos of foster kittens, right? You can only see four of them there. For some reason one is always off doing something el...
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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Monday, September 17, 2012

Hey, want to get rid of those ovaries, cheap?

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A few months ago I was watching a general practice veterinarian perform a dog spay. And I was surprised by how slow he was. He seemed hesita...
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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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