An 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 behavior ...
National Canine Research Council's Research Library houses, in one searchable database, scholarly materials in our areas of interest and expertise. ...
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. ...
A critical review of the dog bite literature reveals that such encounters are often conflated and warning behaviors such as growls, snarls, and snaps are summarily lumped together with potentially injurious behavior such as biting. ...
Is there a need for such a test, particularly regarding whether he is likely to get into harmful conflicts with people? This entry in our research library is our attempt to summarize what the best science to date has to say about these questions. ...
Take a look at the growing body of evidence on the topic, and commit to shifting the paradigm of how we identify and discuss dogs in our daily lives. ...
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. Hu ...
The SPARCS Initiative is now maintained by National Canine Research Council. ...
Dr. Marder discusses the concept that dogs are individuals and the particular relevance of that concept when selecting a companion dog. ...
Animal shelters may conduct what they describe as behavioral evaluations of the dogs they receive, in order to discover what they presume will be problem behaviors when the dogs are adopted into new homes. Among the behaviors that evaluations are designed ...