Breeders benefit from high-tech
January 28th, 2007
DENISE FLAIM
January 15, 2007
‘I think there’s another one there,” I said to my husband, Fred, pointing to the middle of Diva’s flank.
With a flourish, Fred squirted some ultrasound gel on the side of our supine dog, then placed the wand of the portable Doppler ultrasound on the blue glop of gel. He rotated the microphone-size probe slowly and at different angles, listening for the sound we had heard 13 times before. From the base unit’s speaker, we heard some gurgling (Diva did have a hefty dinner), the crackle of static, and then …
A faint thwackety-thwack. Thwackety-thwack.
Destined to serve the blind, some pooches enjoy college life
January 21st, 2007
By CHRIS NEWMARKER
Associated Press Writer
GLASSBORO, N.J. — The youngest students at one university in southern New Jersey get to enjoy all the aspects of college life _ classes, dorm rooms, even courtside seats at the hoops games _ and no bothersome term papers, either.
But these residents at Rowan University are still destined for lives of service, despite each having four legs and a tail.
For a third year, Rowan University students are raising puppies destined to become seeing-eye dogs. About 21 students are in charge of raising six dogs on the public university’s campus, 18 miles south of Philadelphia.
Destined to serve the blind, some pooches enjoy college life
January 7th, 2007
By CHRIS NEWMARKER
Associated Press Writer
January 1, 2007, 8:55 AM EST
GLASSBORO, N.J. — The youngest students at one university in southern New Jersey get to enjoy all the aspects of college life _ classes, dorm rooms, even courtside seats at the hoops games _ and no bothersome term papers, either.
But these residents at Rowan University are still destined for lives of service, despite each having four legs and a tail.
For a third year, Rowan University students are raising puppies destined to become seeing-eye dogs. About 21 students are in charge of raising six dogs on the public university’s campus, 18 miles south of Philadelphia. Read the rest of this entry »