DOG TALK® (and Kitties Too!)

icon of side silhouette of dog and cat drawn inside the dog Tracie Hotchner the Radio Pet Lady

It’s Not Your Lab’s Fault (or Yours!) That He’s Fat!

#935A: Dr. Eleanor Raffan [Assistant Professor in Systems Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge] has made a breakthrough discovery of the gene in Labrador Retrievers that makes them insatiable and drives them to overeat, confirmed with her “Sausage in a Box Test.”