Sunday, January 19, 2014

Designing stress studies, part 3: how do you get the pee?

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Having discussed how to choose what substance to test for cortisol (blood, saliva, urine, feces, hair), and how to get the blood or saliva ...
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Designing stress studies, part 2: how do you get your sample?

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I recently posted about how to choose what bodily substance to use to test for cortisol in a stress study: blood, saliva, urine, feces, or ...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Designing stress studies, part 1: what do you sample?

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Apparently I am an expert in designing stress studies in dogs using cortisol, because I have published one paper about it. Here are some of...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Pets as gifts: should we trust adopters?

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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...
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Sunday, December 22, 2013

New research on dog bite fatalities

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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 ...
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Monday, December 2, 2013

The epigenetics of fear

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I learned something new today about fearfulness, which it turns out has an even more complicated set of causes than I had previously known. ...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

What has cheap genome sequencing done for dog science lately?

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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...