How long before we discard visual breed identification? A new survey confirms that even dog experts can’t tell just by looking.
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In the 1960’s, John Paul Scott and John L. Fuller showed that mixed breed dogs may bear little or no resemblance to their purebred ancestors.[i] In 2009, Dr. Victoria Voith and colleagues from Western University published a short report indicating a low agreement between the identification of breeds of dogs by adoption agencies and DNA […]
Dogs’ personalities more reflective of their relationships with people than of their breed
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Janis Bradley examines a recent study published in Applied Animal Behavior Science.