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Therapy Dog Gets Honorary Degree

29 Friday May 2020

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From the Huffpost:

He’s got a Ph.D. in being a very good boy.

Well, technically it’s an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine, but either way, Moose is a very accomplished dog.

The 8-year-old Labrador retriever has worked as a therapy dog at Virginia Tech’s Cook Counseling Center since 2014. Now, his years of service to students are being celebrated with an honorary degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, which is operated by Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland at College Park. Moose was granted the degree at a virtual commencement ceremony on Friday.

See entire article at Huffpost.

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5 Things To Know Before You Adopt A Dog | Life Kit | NPR

15 Friday May 2020

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Considering a quarantine dog? Adoptions are up with people spending more time at home. Before you get in over your head, here are 5 things to consider, including costs, training, and how to adjust your pooch to post-pandemic life.

Study to determine if Dogs could be trained to detect COVID-19 through scent

01 Friday May 2020

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From CNET: “Dogs could potentially be used to sniff out COVID-19. The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine said Tuesday that it’s launching a research initiative using scent detection dogs to differentiate between samples from COVID-19 positive and negative patients. ” See full article at CNET 

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Dogs Sniffing Out Covid-19?

17 Friday Apr 2020

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“It’s not just the elusive vaccine that will defeat Covid-19, scientists are looking at all sorts of methods to contain the pandemic. One of the more unusual could be in recruiting man’s best friend. Scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine believe that they can train dogs with a particularly keen sense of smell to diagnose people with the illness, even if they are displaying no symptoms.”

Dogs May Understand Even More Than We Thought

03 Friday Apr 2020

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Sit! Stay! Good boy! Many of us use such words with our nonhuman best friends every day. Now new research suggests that they may actually understand at least some of what we say—and that they may be paying a lot of attention to how we say it.

Read the entire article at Scientific American.
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Some Wolf Pups Show Innate Fetching Talent

27 Friday Mar 2020

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Some wolf pups will play fetch with a stranger, suggesting that an ability to playfully interact with people could have come before, and played a role in, dog domestication.

Read or listen to the entire article at Scientific American.

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