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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
The
end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass
breeding operations or as the media along with the general public
labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».
Ending the guessing game of assigning
breed labels to shelter dogs will increase adoptions and make better matches between pets and people.
That's how many mixed
breed dogs, or dogs with unknown parentage,
end up being
labeled pit bulls.
In the Jack Russell Terrier with CMS (neuromuscular disease control), several
end - plates were stained with esterase; however, no AChRs were
labeled in the serial muscle section, consistent with the marked decrease in muscle AChRs described in this
breed.