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Showing 1-7 of 7A new 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 injuri ...
A new article sheds light on the practice of behavior evaluations of dogs in shelters for the purpose of identifying dogs likely to express dangerous behavior toward people. The authors demonstrate why when a shelter dog tests positive for dangerous behav ...
National Canine Research Council is happy to announce our new website, complete with both familiar & new research and resources. Included in the change is an evolution into a canine behavior science and policy think tank. ...
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. ...
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 ...
National Canine Research Council (NCRC) is happy to announce the release of "Police and Dog Encounters", the law enforcement training series developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Servi ...
Americans love dogs. There is roughly one dog for every four people in the United States, and they live in a variety of relationships with humans. Because dogs are such a part of American society, police routinely encounter them in the line of duty, not j ...