About the National Canine Research Council Research Library
National Canine Research Council's Research Library houses, in one searchable database, scholarly materials in our areas of interest and expertise. ...
The Telephone, Science, and Dogs
All of us at times are influenced by the distorting effects information mediation, that is, unjustified reliance on a third party’s imperfect, imprecise, misunderstood, and even deliberately misleading description of what another person has said or done. ...
Dog Bite Prevention Week Fact Sheet: Companionship is the best prevention
You are your dog’s first line of defense. ...
Are you happy? Disgusted? Your dog can tell the difference
Once again researchers at the Family Dog Project in Hungary have confirmed an ability that dog lovers have long suspected in our canine companions. In an ingenious series of experiments the Eötvös Loránd University ethologists demonstrated that dogs can d ...
Breed-Specific Legislation is myth-based and ineffective according to the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB)
AVSAB, a national association of veterinarians who are board-certified in the specialty of animal behavior, has just released a position statement expressing their opposition to breed-specific legislation. Their position paper notes that they are "co ...
New Edition of "Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions"
Some aspects of the dog bite situation have changed since the first writing of this paper for the Animals and Society Institute in 2006. More current statistical information about dog bite incidence is available. More is now known that both documents and ...
Breed-specific legislation on the decline
Breed-Specific Legislation on the Decline: 5 more states no longer allow BSL & more than 7x as many U.S. Municipalities repealed or rejected proposed BSL, than enacted it between: January 2012 – May 2014. The national trend is moving steadily away f ...
National Canine Research Council & Safe Humane Selected As Winners In The 35th Annual Telly Awards
The Telly Awards has named the National Canine Research Council and Safe Humane as a winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards, Employee Communications and Training categories, for their piece titled "Police & Dog Encounters Video Training Series.&q ...
Associated Press reports on NCRC video series that keeps both family dogs and police officers safe.
The heartbreak of a family dog’s death in a police shooting can be avoided while keeping officers safe according to a recent Associated Press story [1] and video [2]. Police and Dog Encounters: Tactical Strategies and Effective Tools to Keep our Communit ...
National Canine Research Council is growing.
National Canine Research Council (NCRC) is growing. Janis Bradley, who joined NCRC last year, has been named Director of Communications and Publications. The current Director, Donald Cleary, will continue working with NCRC as a policy and research consult ...