Introduction In 2013, Jonathan Martin, a starter for the Miami Dolphins professional football team, checked into a local hospital for psychological treatment after a year of repeated harassment by three teammates.1 The players had made persistent graphic sexual remarks and obscene gestures about Martin’s sister and mother.2 Martin’s teammates bombarded him with racial and vulgar insults like “n...

Female dogs mounted other females more frequently when the 2nd bitch was in estrus, but the hormonal state of the mounting individual had little influence upon mount frequency; estrogen rendered a female more pro­ vocative or stimulating and more cooperative or receptive to mounting by another dog. During heterosexual tests estrous females tended to mount males selectively, responding readily t...

van der Weyden, G.C., Taverne, M.A.M., Dieleman, S.J. and Fontijne, P. (1981) The intrauterine position of canine foetuses and their sequence of expulsion at birth. Journal of Small Animal Practice 22, 503-510. van der Weyden, G.C., Taverne, M.A.M., Dieleman, S.J., Wurth, Y., Bevers, M.M. and van der Oord, H.A. (1989) Physiological aspects of pregnancy and parturition in the bitch. Journal of R...

The maturation of oocytes is one of the most important steps determining their developmental competence. Due to the low percentage of oocytes of bitches that reach the MII stage, searching for reagents that may stimulate the growth and maturation of oocytes is still present in this species of mammals. The most important media supplements include gonadotropins (LH, FSH, hCG), growth factors (IGF...

Issues of poor maternal bonding in the bitch are commonplace in small animal theriogenology practices. Whilst any new mother can have issues accepting their newborn puppies, the problem presents itself most commonly in nulliparous bitches, more so those that have undergone caesarean section and more so those that have undergone elective caesarean section (observed, unpublished data). Whilst pro...

Pyometra is recognized as one of the main causes of disease and death in the bitch, and Escherichia coli is the major pathogen associated with this disease. In this study, 70 E. coli isolates from the uteri horn, mouth, and rectum of bitches suffering from the disease and 43 E. coli isolates from the rectum of clinically healthy bitches were examined for the presence of uropathogenic virulence ...