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Cloning Shows That All Dogs Are Individuals

National Canine Research Council October 30, 2013May 31, 2022News Leave a comment

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] While the price is right – the Sooam Biotech’s customary fee for cloning a dog is just north of $100,000 – geneticists are cautioning that the resulting animal will not be identical to the original. Too many different factors operate on an individual, scientists caution, for two individuals to be carbon … Continue reading “Cloning Shows That All Dogs Are Individuals”

Of Mice and Dogs: Their Personalities May Be Up To Us

National Canine Research Council June 17, 2013March 18, 2021News, Research & Publications Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading “Of Mice and Dogs: Their Personalities May Be Up To Us”

Animal professionals shown to disagree with each other when assigning breed(s) to dogs of unknown parentage.

National Canine Research Council May 7, 2013May 31, 2022News, Research & Publications Leave a comment

Summary A survey of more than 900 people in dog-related professions and services showed that they frequently disagreed with each other when making visual breed identifications of the same dog, and that their opinions may or may not have correlated with DNA breed analysis. More than 70% of the study participants reported that now, or at one time, their breed descriptors were used in record keeping. The results of this survey call into question the validity of a variety of … Continue reading “Animal professionals shown to disagree with each other when assigning breed(s) to dogs of unknown parentage.”