Sunday, April 16, 2017

The vegetables of genetics

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Today I’m working on revisions for my DNA class at IAABC , which starts Monday, April 24. This will be the second time I’ve offered this cla...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Puppies and Pointing

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Why are some dogs better at paying attention to humans, particularly human gestures like pointing, than others? We know genetics has some...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Puppies and dog breeds

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Thanks to Julie Wurth for a great interview with me and Linda Case of The Science Dog in our local paper, the News-Gazette. Since the ar...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Training the dog in front of me

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It's been hard to train two dogs at once. My old dog, Jack, never minded when I trained my young dog, Jenny. He was happy to chill out o...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

The Replacement Dog: how a veterinarian / dog rescuer / geneticist searched for the right puppy

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The death of my fifteen year old golden retriever Jack wasn’t just about my loss. It was about finding someone else to do his job, which for...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Corrigendum on a recent tame fox article

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I came across a new article on the Russian tame foxes today, Russian geneticist repeats dog domestication with foxes in just fifty years . ...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Where did dogs come from?

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What we know and what we don’t know about dog domestication Want to learn more about dog domestication? It's not too late to sign...