Community Science
Celebrating Science on Your Pack Day Anniversary!
Published on May 18, 2021What’s a Pack Day Anniversary? We’re glad you asked! Pack Day is the anniversary of the day on which you completed the Health and Life Experience Survey, and your dog became a member of the Dog Aging Project Pack!
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Expanding the Pack
Published on April 13, 2021The Dog Aging Project is recruiting! Can you help us spread the word? We’re so grateful to the current members of the Dog Aging Project Pack, our largest and most important scientific cohort. Through annual surveys completed by owners, we are building a comprehensive dataset, which will help us understand how life experiences and environment affect healthy aging in dogs. We’re over the moon about their participation and what we will be able to learn from these magnificent dogs!
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Preventive Care for Senior Dogs
Published on February 3, 2021[vc_message message_box_color=”violet” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-paw”]Our Senior Dog Care Series focuses on common challenges that older dogs…
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One Study or Many? Cohorts in the Dog Aging Project
Published on January 8, 2021The Dog Aging Project is a long-term research project. We’re building a canine knowledge base using critical information provided by community scientists, who participate in what we call the Longitudinal Study of Companion Dogs.
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This community is the heart and soul of what we do! Thank you!
Published on December 31, 2020To our Dog Aging Project family, Years ago, when the three of us began planning…
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Beyond gray muzzles: defining aging in dogs
Published on November 10, 2020What is aging exactly? Answering this question is not only the necessary starting point for this blog series, but it is also one of the primary aims of the Dog Aging Project. Even though recognizing aging is simple enough when we see an elderly dog with a white muzzle, truly defining aging in dogs is much more challenging.
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Doodles, Habibi Bears, and More: The Genetics of Novel Dog Crosses
Published on August 28, 2020Dogs are one of the most diverse groups of animals in the world. Visit any…
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Demography, the Gompertz Equation, and COVID-19
Published on May 19, 2020Scientific discovery is often driven by the observation of patterns. Repeated phenomena usually have similar…
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Human to Animal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Published on March 30, 2020One of the challenges we face right now is how little we know about the…
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Calling ALL Dogs!
Published on March 5, 2020The Dog Aging Project. What’s in a name? After reading the word aging in Dog Aging Project you may be wondering if only particular age groups of dogs can be nominated. Is it a study for puppies? A study for senior dogs? For the middle-aged ones? The answer is… YES! YES! And YES!
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