Breed labeling at shelters is notoriously inaccurate — by and large, shelter dogs aren't genetic tested, so the labels are mere guesses based on what the dog looks like, and are wrong as often as not.
Lindsey Huffman, director of the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center, has also been moving away from
breed labeling at the shelter.
WCRAS has removed the use of
breed labels at their shelter.
Not exact matches
But the coercion of mandatory
labeling ought to be reserved for information that is relevant to health, not GMO content, because government - sponsored assessments have repeatedly concluded that approved GMOs are
at least as safe and nutritious as their conventionally
bred counterparts.
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label release in the summer of 2000, music journalists have written that the band doesn't Coldplay's Chris Martin invited personal trainer Rob, 29, onto the stage
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One in five dogs genetically identified with pit bull
breeds were missed, and one in three dogs lacking DNA for pit bull
breeds were
labeled pit bulls by
at least one staff member.
The shelter points to a study cited by the Animal Farm Foundation, a nonprofit that works to promote pit bull dogs, that reports
breed labels assigned to shelter dogs by staff members are incorrect
at least 75 percent of the time.
In fact, there are no
breeds at all; SVASC has dropped using
breed titles and started
labeling each dog as an all American shelter dog.
A session
at Michigan Pet Fund Alliance's «Getting to the Goal» Conference in Flint, Mich., on Sept. 15 - 16, 2016 will focus on
breed labels presented by Tawny Hammond, Director of Animal Services for the City of Austin, TX.
The top 5
breeds of highest intake Looking
at our latest data, we again find that dogs
labeled as «pit type» continue to be the
breed or
breed mix of highest intake.
Here's where I worry about the shift to fully remove
breed labels: We then can potentially lose proper tracking on the back end to help ensure that we can identify what types are most
at risk and then support them.
Yet, researchers from Western University of Health Sciences [20 - 21] have found discrepancies between
breed identification and the results of DNA analysis, and researchers in Florida found
at one shelter that 50 % of dogs that were
labeled as belonging to a pit - bull - type
breed lacked the DNA
breed signature [22].
For instance, if you look
at the ingredient statements on the
labels of regular versus large
breed foods, they look pretty similar.
Educate them if they're new, actually ask them what their practices are (I find a lot of people automatically
label people as a BYB just for having the gall to
breed any dog
at all, it doesn't matter what the persons standards were — BYB is just a negative slang term intended to attack / offend any given breeder — it actually doesn't mean anything in a legal sense, there is no legal definition of it because there is no way of defining it in a legal manner without also applying it to all breeders).
This article and accompanying infographic will take a look
at pit bull facts and just how accurate the
label of «dangerous dog» fits the pit bull
breed as a whole and look
at the real facts behind bully
breeds.
X spoke further with the workers there and learned that the dog - aggressive
label on this girl is because she didn't get along with a female weimeraner
at her house, after the weim was
bred.
Michelle Sathe, who works
at Best Friends animal shelter, said the shelter has been trying out a pilot program where they don't use dog
breed labels.
There are a number of organizations that aim to combat
breed discrimination, and while they are doing great work, change needs to happen
at all levels, which is why one shelter in Florida has stepped up to the plate and removed all of its
breed identification
labels from kennel cards and their website.
This article and accompanying infographic will take a look
at just how accurate the
label of «dangerous dog» fits the pit bull
breed as a whole and look
at the real facts behind bully
breeds...
Similar efforts locally are being made
at Lollipop Farms, but spokeswoman Ashley Zeh said the facility has not yet gone to removing
breed labels entirely.
These
breeds are not
at risk for trouble when using the low - dose heartworm preventive products, but only when using the off -
label skin parasite protocols.
Organizations such as the HSUS (before it joined the animal rights movement) investigated conditions
at these farms and eventually were successful in focusing national attention on the repulsive conditions
at breeding kennels they
labeled as «puppy mills.»
Breeds often get
labeled by those who drop off the dogs
at a shelter.
Click here to try your hand
at identifying different
breeds commonly
labeled as Pit Bulls.
Dogs are often
labeled as Pit Bulls simply based on looks alone, but one study of 120 dogs
at four different shelters found that less than half of the dogs given that
label didn't even carry the DNA of
breeds that fall under the Pit Bull
label.
This action has garnered some negative feedback stating that removing the
breed label would be a safety issue, deceiving the public, and put the city
at risk of liability.