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| Bluey waits for his friends on the track. |
Do you have four days and
excellent sculpting skills? Then you might be able to make this cake. Although
I doubt, having achieved that mean feat, you will want to eat it. In fact if
you manage to make this cake you’ll probably dive on top of anyone that walks
anywhere near it with a knife.
Mike McCormick is a medical
student who used candy to help learn anatomy (of humans) and his Instagram is
full of extremely clever, edible anatomy lessons. Veterinary students
everywhere could rise to this challenge.
If you’re not into edible
anatomy, or you’re trying to be healthy, there’s also the burgeoning field of
aKNITomy, where you can purchase a pattern to knit your own simulated dissections of animals, which
seems like a much more educational, more human alternative than the high-school
science practical classes which often culminate in someone fainting and someone
else getting suspended for throwing kidneys. Check out the Facebook page here.
Wednesday’s post prompted a
lot of discussion (if you’ve not seen it, check it out here), specifically “yes,
but my dog eats cat poo”. Well yes, that is common. So common that at least one
company has produced one novel solution to prevent canine access to the
litterbox.
And on that slightly
unsavoury topic, an enterprising pair have invented the world’s first reusabledog waste bag.
This cat has been working as
a “vet nurse” in Poland. Interesting interpretation of his behaviour. Extremely
cute nonetheless. Probably not a nurse I’d completely trust to recover the
pocket pets from anaesthesia though…
Kim and Jan sent this linkfrom the Guardian about research suggesting that dogs and humans experience a
surge in oxytocin when they gaze into one another’s eyes.
You can read the original
article in Science here. I wonder if
facilitating the oxytocin-infused gaze has anything to do with our preference
for morphological characteristics of certain breeds? Of course not everyone agrees with the findings, including Dr Clive Wynne who wrote this piece.
