Welcome Back to SPARCS + 2018 Conference
You may have noticed that the SPARCS Initiative is now maintained by National Canine Research Council. ...
When Doctors Stray Outside of Expertise
A 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 ...
What type of dog is that? Can you tell just by looking?
When a dog’s pedigree is unknown, how do people typically talk about its ancestry? In special circumstances DNA testing is performed, but in day-to-day life, at shelters, rescues, veterinary offices, dog parks, and in our homes, we primarily rely on guess ...
Is it practical or possible to give a dog a test that will predict how he is likely to behave in real life situations?
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. ...
What do we actually know about growling, snarling, snapping and biting behavior in dogs?
National Canine Research Council's new research library is our attempt to summarize what the best science to date has to say about these questions. Rather than a traditional literature review, it’s a critical analysis of the most commonly cited and t ...
When you do the math, behavior evaluations flunk
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 ...
How to Use National Canine Research Council's Website
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...