As a result, I haven't found the time to write any new blog posts. But there's lots of other stuff for you to read out there, and I report the best of what I find on my Twitter feed. Here are some recent ones:
- What is a “Hard Eye” in a Dog? (And What Should You Do When You See One?) - A blog post from the ever-awesome Dr. Patricia McConnell. Are you following her blog yet?
- You're a What? What's a Pathologist? - Really cool piece from a veterinary pathologist about one of the lesser-known veterinary specialties. (But if you've ever had an animal with cancer, or suspected your animal had cancer, you've probably used their services whether you knew it or not.)
- Uncinate Fasciculus - Lovely writing about brains and fearful dogs from The Chook House, the blog of a veterinarian who sure can write.
- Carl Zimmer’s Brief Guide to Writing Explainers - A post from a peerless science communicator on how to be a good science communicator... Augh, it's hard!
- Cool story on Wolves and Monkeys: Unusual Hunting Buddies at the Extinction Countdown blog
- Beware the pseudo gene genies - Some ruminations on epigenetics and what it means
- Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - This story is trending at WIRED, and well it should, because it's an engaging description of what this new CRISPR technology we keep hearing about actually is, how it was discovered, and why it is so earth-shatteringly important to the future of our world as we know it.
- Blind, Orphaned Red Fox Kit at Buttonwood Park Zoo - You'd think from the title that this video would be sad. But it's not. It is instead extraordinarily cute.
- Re-Arranging Metaphors for Dogs from Companion Animal Psychology on why the wolf-pack metaphor for our relationships with our dogs really sucks. Hear hear!
- The epiphany of understanding what dogs are saying - A little humor curated for you by Dr. Ilana Reisner.
- What makes siblings from the same family so different? Parents. - While it sucks that all the good behavioral genetics articles (like this one) out there are about humans and not dogs (I mean, dogs are so much more interesting), it turns out it's not too hard to see how to apply this stuff to dogs, too.
- Eight Grey Wolf Pups Pop Out of Their Den - Yeah, I basically just share every baby canid picture on ZooBorns. You're welcome.
- Entrepreneur finds pet microchip problem unsolvable - This story is so sad, but agrees with my experience with microchips from my days working as a shelter medicine intern.