Showing 94 posts from February 2009
Surgeons training at the University of Michigan will no longer use live, healthy dogs to learn drastic surgical procedures, the university announced Thursday.
The anesthetized animals — obtained from shelters — were used to teach tracheotomies, how to fix collapsed lungs, and other emergency procedures. After the procedures, they were commonly euthanized, the Detroit Free Press [...]
Getting a laboratory tour is usually a pretty sterile and boring affair: “Here’s the machine that does this. Here’s the room where we do that. But we’re not doing this or that right now.”
So when I walked into the Sooam Biotech Foundation, headed by the controversial Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk, I wasn’t expecting much more than a quick [...]
Maybe you’re no Leona Helmsley, and have no plans to leave your dog $12 million to assure he continue living in the luxurious manner to which he has become accustomed.
Maybe you’re no Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress who, in addition to bequeathing large amounts to animal organizations in her will, left $100,000 in a trust for [...]
There’s a new animal blogger in town, and she used to be my boss.
Mary Corey, the Baltimore Sun’s features editor has taken over my old Sun blog (”Mutts”), given it a new name (”Unleashed,” not to be confused with the sister paper Los Angeles Times pet and animal blog) and is off and running.
The revamped [...]
One of the highlights of my trip to Korea was meeting Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog.
Snuppy was born in 2005 at Seoul National University — and his name is a combination of the school’s initials and the word “puppy.”
As you can see, he’s a puppy no more. On his hind legs he’s nearly as [...]
