Gordon's Notes

I was doing a bit of personal research today that might be of interest to a few others, so sharing here. Kateva, of Kateva.org fame ,  is 1...

This is the season for traumatized dogs. We’ve had two husky mixes, the first ( Molly Thunderpaws Squirrelbane ) ended up needing oral valiu...

Eight years ago, I wondered if European Distemper killed the Native American dog  and added a footnote on an old personal hypothesis ... H...

The canine whipworm ( Trichuris vulpis ) is a common dog parasite. The juvenile form of the parasite develops in dirt; it's transmitted...

The good news is that Kateva's creatinine is back where it should be and her stomach is holding out. The bad news is that, even if all...

A randomly selected purebred border collie associates sounds with objects , and perhaps sound permutations with objects and actions. There ...

In a previous life I had one of the earliest english language web pages on skijoring (nordic skiing with your dog). In today's life Kat...

Dogs are really, really, weird ... Dog brains in a spin ... No other animal has enjoyed the level of human affection and companionship l...

Unsurprisingly, people who abuse animals are also dangerous to humans ... The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome - NYTimes.com : ... significant reason...

Fourteen years ago I authored one of the very first skijoring pages on the WWW . Heck, it might have been the first in English. We didn'...

What if we paid the CEO of Honda and four of his picks $1 billion to take over GM ? Just wondering. Honda knows its customers very well ... ...

One more reason not to get to bother with football ... Michael Vick Fails To Inspire Team With 'Great' Dogfighting Story | The Onion...

The studies are probably not terribly rigorous, but it wouldn't be surprising to learn that that dogs are smarter than we thought they w...

The more we learn about the astounding variability of human brains (presumably related to the rapid human evolution of the past 5,000 years...

We don't know the safe levels for dogs. Apparently the fluoride comes from a high bone meal content in pet food ... Fluoride in dog food...

Imagine you are an active geek, and that you can live in any city on earth. Where do you go? For that matter, where might you want to visi...

I've had a longstanding obsession with the the evolution and plasticity of my favorite parasite , Canis lupus familiaris. Happily our...

FMH is right. Most Disturbing Moment in Obama’s Leno Appearance - Follow Me Here… : ...[I]nevitably, he talked about the long-promised famil...

The Economist today highlights a few of the recent super science (AAAS) meeting. Cooking is humanity's "killer app" (emphas...

This weekend's NYT Magazine reports 53,000 infants have been poisoned by fraudulent milk products. The number, of course, will rise. No...