Sentences with phrase «breed labels all»

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.

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

«Removing breed labels is a relatively low - cost strategy that will likely improve outcomes for dogs in animal shelters,» the authors conclude

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

There is a problem with dropping breed labels.

The policy of dropping breed labels has also been adopted in recent months by shelters in Florida, Illinois, Tennessee and Indiana, among others.

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.

And the policy of dropping breed labels has been adopted in recent months by shelters in states includingFlorida, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee and Indiana.

«Removing the breed labels is more of an industry - wide shift, to focus on the dogs as individuals and less as some sort of label,» Fitzgerald said.

Some adoption organizations did away with breed labels long ago, with some simply calling them «All American Shelter Dogs.»

Ending the guessing game of assigning breed labels to shelter dogs will increase adoptions and make better matches between pets and people.

Some commissioners believe that removing the breed labels would help more dogs get adopted, as the public would have to as past the breed, and get to know the dog.

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

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.

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.

«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.

According to numerous studies, including one in The Veterinary Journal, breed labels are frequently inaccurate and have negative impacts such as breed discrimination and a higher rate of dogs being returned to shelters.

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

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

Cheryl Schneider, Williamson County animal services director, explained, «When you remove breed labels, you open the door to possibility.

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?

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.

If not, I would not be opposed to breed labels being done away with as long as shelters can provide a description of an adoptable dog's physical appearance and temperament.

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

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

Consequently, many modern shelters are dropping breed labels, since the assigned labels can unnecessarily prolong a dog's stay in the shelter.

It took over three weeks for half the transferred dogs to exit the shelter, and two months for three - quarters to exit, versus ten days and three weeks, respectively, for other top breed labels.

Dogs labeled «Pit Bull» constituted 15 % of all adopted dogs, yet made up one third of the dogs that took one month or longer to reach adoption, a characteristic that can be seen in the following plot for the top three breed labels:

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

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.

The 65 dogs killed for behavior in the recent cycle were all adults and had eighteen breed labels.

In the recent cycle, the most likely outcome for adult dogs and puppies with the top breed labels was adoption, except for adult dogs labeled «Pit Bull,» which were slightly more likely to be redeemed by their owners than to be adopted.

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.

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.

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.

To celebrate dropping breed labels, SVASC has held an all American shelter dog promotion.

The idea is that that breed labels — inaccurate as they might be — can end up falsely leading someone to think a dog is a good, or bad, match for their family.

Without pedigree records from a breeder or DNA testing, breed labels will not be used on our web postings, kennel cards, rabies certificates, or dog licenses.

Breed Labels and Language — The dog comes in the door, has a kind of a square head, not real muscular but... we think it is a pit bull.

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.

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

The Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter will no longer use breed labels to identify its adoptable dogs, according to a Tuesday announcement from the shelter.

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

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

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.

Dr. Levy found that assigning breed labels to shelter dogs based on visual inspection is unreliable and likely to be contradicted by DNA testing.

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.

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