“What kind of dog is that?" Asking the wrong question and answering it badly
Our review has revealed no findings of breed based behavioral differences that successfully overcome all the difficulties presented by this question.
-
-
What type of dog is that? Can you tell just by looking?
Take a look at the growing body of evidence on visual breed identification, and commit to shifting the paradigm of how we identify and discuss dogs in our daily lives.
-
Cloning Shows That All Dogs Are Individuals
Britain’s The Telegraph newspaper is reporting that a Korean company will be offering one lucky British dog owner a chance to have his or her dog cloned for free.[1]
-
Of Mice and Dogs: Their Personalities May Be Up To Us
Most of us easily acknowledge the likelihood that specific behaviors can be influenced by learning, in ourselves and in other species, including the one closest to us, our companion dogs. We can learn to tie our shoes, and our dogs can learn to walk next to us. We can even learn rules of etiquette and our dogs can learn to greet people without jumping up. But we also identify ourselves as having overarching traits, as having a fixed personality that is shy rather than outgoing, for example, or timid rather than bold.
-
Animal professionals shown to disagree with each other when assigning breed(s) to dogs of unknown parentage.
-
NCRC Interview with Dr. Kristopher Irizarry
Dr. Irizarry discusses the genetic basis for why dogs that look alike do not necessarily act alike.
-
Welcome Back to SPARCS + 2018 Conference
