Abilities of Canine Shelter Behavioral Evaluations and Owner Surrender Profiles to Predict Resource Guarding in Adoptive Homes

Some shelters in the United States consider dogs identified as food aggressive during behavioral evaluations to be unadoptable. We surveyed adopters of dogs from a New York shelter to examine predictive abilities of shelter behavioral evaluations and owner surrender profiles. Twenty of 139 dogs (14....

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Main Authors: Betty McGuire, Destiny Orantes, Stephanie Xue, Stephen Parry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
dog
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/9/1702