Sentences with phrase «breed labels»

We believe that, by removing breed labels from the animals in our care, we will be giving each and every dog a better chance at finding their perfect family.

I am very excited by the innovation in the field and the movement to remove breed labels for adopters in their initial view of a pet.

The proposal is to remove breed labels from shelter kennel cards, forcing adopters to base their decisions on more important factors like the dog's personality, size, and training.

Therefore, we are no longer using breed labels for our adoptable dogs unless we are provided corresponding documentation from the previous owner.

The median time was one month, whereas the median for other top breed labels was one or two weeks.

Across the top dog breed labels, the recent cycle saw killing for medical reasons reduced to nearly one third of what it was in the prior cycle.

Also, keep in mind that visual breed labeling in animal shelters and DNA testing show great disparities.

Here's some more information about why we don't breed label our dogs.

The other half comprised a long tail of many breed labels, over 300 in all.

With the big role that physical appearance plays in dog selection, our lab was interested in understanding how breed labels could influence how attractive a dog seemed to be.

In the recent cycle, the top four breed labels accounted for nearly half of the dogs in the shelter.

Many organizations suggest we stop using breed labels all together.

The pit bull is just one breed that is categorized under the bully breed label.

By taking away what can often be incorrect breed labels, shelters help people focus on what's important: A dog's personality.

In addition to proving breed labels wrong, the study showed potential adopters identical photos of dogs labeled with different breed names.

Do breed labels create unfair biases for or against adopting shelter dogs?

Studies have consistently shown that breed labels visually assigned to dogs are almost always inaccurate.

It's why some shelters are choosing to remove breed labels altogether, in hopes that people will focus on personality instead.

We get to know each dog as an individual and do our best to describe each of our dogs based on personality, not breed label.

Across the top breed labels for adult dogs there was little difference in the median time to redemption.

The movement to remove breed labels I write this blog post and wonder if we will be able to do the same comparison next year.

Since pit bulls are typically targeted based on physical appearances, the lecture complemented the new research on breed labeling conducted by Dr. Julie Levy, Director of our program.

In March of this year, the city of Rochester, New York also dropped breed labels in favor of promoting individual dogs for their personalities instead.

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.

WCRAS has removed the use of breed labels at their shelter.

If you'd like to see more about how the BSL affects the lives of dogs labeled as Pit Bull or any other breed labeled as «dangerous», click here.

Did you know that when genetic test results are compared with breed labels put on dogs by experts (like veterinarians and shelter workers), the labels turn out to be wrong over 85 % of the time?

Impounded dogs are assigned a primary breed label.

The shape of the distribution was also much flatter, such that it took over two months for three quarters to be adopted, appreciably longer than the other breed labels (e.g., three quarters of all adopted adult dogs labeled «Chihuahua» had departed the shelter within eleven days).

In the study, when breed labels were not placed on the dogs, potential adopters ranked pit bulls and non-pit-bulls as «equally attractive.»

If the bill stands as written, any pit bulls — a vaguely defined breed label attached to any number of dogs with physical similarities to American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Bulldogs, and other mixes of any of those breeds — not registered with the city by January 1, 2018 will not be allowed to legally live within city limits.

An open - intake animal shelter in Williamson County, Texas, has eliminated breed labels for the homeless dogs who are in their care.

It limits the possibility of adoption for certain breed labels.»

«Many breed labels go off bias and characteristics of a general idea,» Huffman said.

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.

proved our point, which is your guess is as good as ours when it comes to visual breed labeling.

From there, they found 15 dogs that were labeled as pit bulls and another 15 that were very similar to the «pit bulls» but that had not gotten the same breed label.

That's why in 2015 PAS decided to stop breed labeling the dogs and cats that come to the shelter.

Our foster - home based rescue group, Animal Rescue of the Rockies, adopts out mostly «mixed breed» dogs, and we see all sorts of mistaken breed labels when we pull dogs from shelters.

On October 1st, MAS ended breed labeling, which Pugh believes will increase the chance of adoption for some dogs, like pit bull or German shepherd mixes, which are often mis - identified or discriminated against.

«Honestly we've had the test pilot here for about 6 weeks with the mixed breed labels for the small and large dogs and the reaction has been neutral, we haven't had people coming for it or against,» she said.

Commissioner Layne Dicker said that city shelters are already misleading the public by having breed labels because breeds are often wrong when they are judged visually.

Kristen writes and presents nationally on a variety of subjects including breed labeling, reducing shelter intake, innovative foster - based solutions, social media for No Kill animal sheltering and providing enrichment for shelter pets.

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.

«How a dog is labeled or their physical appearance is not an indication of their personality, their past or future behavior, or their suitability for a particular adoption placement,» said the director of the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in Georgetown, Texas in a statement announcing their decision to abandon breed labels earlier this year.

JHS Breed Label Statement The Jacksonville Humane Society believes that each dog is an individual and should be treated that way, so we've decided to stop identifying them by breeds as of January 1, 2017.

In a growing nationwide trend, shelters are dropping breed labels from cages and kennels, no longer identifying adoptable dogs by their breed alone...

Lindsey Huffman, director of the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center, has also been moving away from breed labeling at the shelter.

MISSION HILLS, CA (FOX 11)- The city of Los Angeles Board of Animal Services met Tuesday night to discuss the possibility of removing dog breed labels from city shelters and adoption forms.