Many dogs develop these kinds of behaviors as a result of past scary experiences, stress in
a recent shelter environment, or their natural inherited or breed specific traits; not always stemming from past abuse.
Not exact matches
In fact,
recent studies show that doing temperament tests upon intake to a
shelter environment are not accurate predictors of the dog's behavior in a home.
A
recent study in Applied Animal Behavior Science shows that cats need at least 48 hours to acclimate to the
shelter environment after intake, before being introduced to other cats.