Study finds that the literature on dog bites written by human health care professionals is rife with distortions and errors, and laden with rhetorical devices that mischaracterize dog behavior and grossly overstate the actual risk of dog bite injuries. ...
Canine Behavior, Canine Research, Dog Bite Prevention, National Canine Research Council, National Canine Research Council Publications, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy
National Canine Research Council's website is complete with both familiar & new research and resources. Included in the change is an evolution into a canine behavior science and policy think tank. ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Canine Research, Dog Bite Prevention, Law Enforcement Resources, National Canine Research Council, National Canine Research Council Publications, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy, Responsible Pet Ownership, Visual Breed Identification
AVSAB released a position statement expressing their opposition to breed-specific legislation. ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Dog Bite Prevention, Policy, Responsible Pet Ownership
Second edition of "Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions" Released. ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Breeds of dogs, Canine Behavior, Dog Bite Prevention, National Canine Research Council, National Canine Research Council Publications, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy, Responsible Pet Ownership, Safe and Humane Communities
Breed-Specific Legislation on the Decline: 5 more states no longer allow BSL & more than 7x as many U.S. Municipalities repealed or rejected proposed BSL, than enacted it between: January 2012 – May 2014.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 ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), National Canine Research Council, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy
On April 3, 2014, the Maryland House of Delegates gave final approval to breed neutral dog bite liability legislation that would abrogate the 2012 Court of Appeals ruling in Tracey v. Solesky, which imposed “breed”-specific liability on dog owners, custod ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Policy
In an unprecedented initiative, the White House released a statement announcing that the Obama Administration does not support breed-specific legislation (BSL). The statement was a response to an anti-BSL petition created in December 2012, which quickly g ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Policy
All of us who love dogs – whether we live with them, raise them, provide professional services for them, or use them for a purpose – recognize the value they hold in our society. Yet the human-canine bond may be weakened by a disparate amount of resources ...
Human-Canine Bond, Policy
Bill Bruce, Calgary's Director of Animal and By-Law Services discusses ineffective dog laws such as breed-specific legislation, pet limit laws, and mandatory spay-neuter, and why these broad-based forms of legislation are ineffective. NCRC Interview ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), National Canine Research Council, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy, Responsible Pet Ownership
A paper published last week in the Journal Injury Prevention attempted to make the case that “pit bull” bans in Manitoba may have been effective in reducing dog bite injury hospitalizations (DBIH, in the language of the paper). [1] In attempting to do s ...
Breed-specific legislation (BSL), Canine Research, National Canine Research Council Resources, Policy, Responsible Pet Ownership