Sentences with phrase «breed labels at»

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

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

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.

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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.