Sentences with phrase «evaluations of dogs in shelters»

A new article sheds light on the practice of behavior evaluations of dogs in shelters for the purpose of identifying dogs likely to express dangerous behavior toward people.

Not exact matches

Evaluation of a behavioral assessment questionnaire for use in the characterization of behavioral problems of dogs relinquished to animal shelters.

Finding the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Evaluation and Assessment of Shelter Dogs.

The study looked at 48 adult shelter dogs of 23 breeds or mixes who were allowed a minimum of three days to adjust to being in the shelter before evaluation with the B.A.R.K. protocol.

In turn, dogs and cats can pass their evaluations at shelters, and show more of their personality, making them more adoptable.

In her previous position as the Behaviorist for the Massachusetts SPCA, Ms. Bollen conducted published research on the reliability of shelter dog behavior evaluations.

In her previous position as the Behaviorist for the Massachusetts SPCA, Ms. Bollen conducted and published research on the reliability of shelter dog behavior evaluations.

The results of her research on the assessment of over 2,000 dogs has been published in the peer - reviewed scientific journal (Bollen and Horowitz, Behavioral evaluation and demographic information in the assessment of aggressiveness in shelter dogs.

However, we may have dogs in evaluation, or we may know of dogs at area shelters.

The program is a multi-part system that incorporates information from a dog's behavioral history, behavior evaluation, and behavior in a shelter, in order to get a comprehensive view of a dog's individual needs.

The authors — veterinarian Gary J. Patronek and Janis Bradley, director of communications and publications for the National Canine Research Council — make the case shelter behavioral evaluations are arbitrary and unreliable, and are indeed «not much better than flipping a coin» when it comes to predicting a dog's future behavior in a home.