The Dog Guy

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/cvm-updates/fda-approves-first-drug-treat-noise-aversion-and-separation-anxiety-dogs

FDA Approves 1st Drug for Noise Aversion & Separation Anxiety in Dogs FDA has approved Tessie (tasipimidine oral solution) for the treatment of noise aversion and separation anxiety in dogs.

Thanks to Eileenanddogs for the article!

I would not have guessed this outcome! Does reading an article like this, where one gets a huge reinforcer (big, surprising new knowledge) count as a jackpot reward?

Large Rewards Accelerate Learning Speed by Extending Brain Signals - Neuroscience News Large rewards accelerate learning speed by extending the duration of dopamine signals in the brain.

Eddie.

Murphy.

Buddy.

Bonzai.

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Please deworm your dog regularly and do not allow them to prey on rodents or scavenge carcasses. - Echinococcus multilocularis has been found in 1/3 of coyote stool samples in the Pacific Northwest and can be fatal to humans

This study, led by University of Washington researchers, is the first to detect E. multilocularis in a wild host on the West Coast of the contiguous U.S. Researchers surveyed 100 coyotes in the Puget Sound region, and found E. multilocularis in 37 of them.
The fact that we found it here in one-third of our coyotes was surprising, because it wasn't found anywhere in the Pacific Northwest until earlier this year."

When E. multilocularis infects an animal or person, it causes cancer-like cysts to form in the liver and sometimes other organs. If untreated, infection can be fatal.
Alveolar echinococcosis is considered the third most important food-borne illness globally, and one of the top 20 neglected tropical diseases by the World Health Organization. Many countries have developed robust protocols for tracking it.

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0013502

I get excited, but not surprised, each time we find new evidence that shows dogs have been with us longer than we knew.

Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed across the region by 15,000 years ago.

Smitty, Tilly, Guinness.