This is a reminder that spaying and neutering your cats early in life has numerous health benefits for them, including way lower odds of mammary or testicular cancer.
(Don't read into this - our cats are fine. Just remembering the rescue we lost 4 years ago to mammary cancer)
If you have a lady kitty who was spayed more than a year into her life and/or after she had a litter of kittens, give her lots of belly pets. If you ever feel a lump, take her to the vet asap.
And give your boy cat belly pets, just 'cause
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When I learned I would be teaching Comparative Anatomy online, I took the opportunity to revamp the whole thing. My "6 quizzes, 3 exams" approach seemed ineffective for online, and maybe ineffective in general.
Here's what I did instead. 🧵
[side note: I spent over an hour rolling this out as one beautiful thread, but it all got deleted because of a glitch when trying to add alt text to an image. So you this is going to take me a while. If I get pulled away, I will come back to it.]
I wanted to encourage repeated exposure to and interaction with the material, rather than memorization, so I broke the content into 10 modules (+9 modules for lab), each with a quiz on basic terminology and definitions that could be taken over and over.