The Dog Zombie

A few days ago I tweeted a link to a blog post by the ASPCA’s Dr. Emily Weiss questioning the shelter dogma that animals should not be give...

We’ve known for a while what kinds of dogs are at risk of biting humans: not any particular breed, but dogs who are not well socialized and ...

I learned something new today about fearfulness, which it turns out has an even more complicated set of causes than I had previously known. ...

So you have the full sequence of a couple few dog genomes, and a wolf genome to boot. (Yes, these days sequencing is cheap enough that genom...

Despite my previous voracious reading about tame foxes, as I settle in to my new lab I’m realizing how much I don’t know about them. For ex...

Tame fox kits We often talk about the tame foxes as “silver foxes,” but in fact there are multiple color morphs in the tame population...

I finally got around to sharing the data from my study of dog salivary cortisol levels on figshare. I have meant to do this for months. Par...