What’s in a Name? Effect of Breed Perceptions & Labeling on Attractiveness, Adoptions & Length of Stay for Pit-Bull-Type Dogs

Topic: Breed Labels, Visual Breed Identification
Type: Summary and Analysis

Authors: Clive Wynne, Lisa Gunter, Rebecca Barber

Comparison of behavioural tendencies between “dangerous dogs” and other domestic dog breeds–Evolutionary context and practical implications

Topic: Behavior Evaluations, Behavior Surveys, Breeds and Behavior, Visual Breed Identification
Type: Summary and Analysis

Authors: Alexa Hammond, Daniel Mills, Malgorzata Pilot, Thomas Rowland

Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

Topic: Behavior Surveys, Breeds and Behavior
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Brittney Logan, Elena Carmichael, Elinor K. Karlsson, Jesse McClure, Jessica Hekman, Kathleen Morrill, Linda Goodman, Marjie Alonso, Mingshi Gao, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Xue Li, Yinan Dong

Saving Normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters

Topic: Behavior Evaluations
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Elizabeth Arps, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley

Enrichment centered on human interaction moderates fear-induced aggression and increases positive expectancy in fearful shelter dogs

Topic: Behavior Evaluations
Type: Peer Reviewed Research

Authors: Michael Hennessy, Patricia Schiml, Regina Willen

What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to “No better than flipping a coin.”

Topic: Behavior Evaluations
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Elizabeth Arps, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley

Summary and Analysis: This paper is included because it comprehensively evaluates every study to date that has made validity, and/or reliability, and/or predictive ability claims about animal shelter canine behavior evaluations.

Differences in Trait Impulsivity Indicate Diversification of Dog Breeds into Working and Show Lines

Topic: Breeds and Behavior
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Daniel Mills, Fernanda Fadel, Hannah Wright, Helen Zulch, Malgorzata Pilot, Patricia Driscoll

This study is included because it investigates presumed selection for a complex personality trait (impulsivity) among working lines of 2 breeds (those lines presumed to be selected for the ability to perform the breed traditional tasks), but also because it provides an example of the difficulties in defining a phenotype for large personality traits.

Associations between domestic-dog morphology and behaviour scores in the dog mentality assessment

Topic: Breeds and Behavior
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Bjorn Forkman, Holly Stone, Melissa Starling, Paul McGreevy

Dog behavior co-varies with height, bodyweight and skull shape

Topic: Breeds and Behavior
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Dana Georgevsky, Deborah Duffy, James Serpell, Johanna Carrasco, Michael Valenzuela, Paul McGreevy

This study is included because it attempts to identify relationships between canine morphology and behavior.

Efficacy of drug detection by fully-trained police dogs varies by breed, training level, type of drug and search environment

Topic: Behavior Evaluations, Breeds and Behavior
Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis

Authors: Aleksandra Górecka-Bruzda, Eugene Papet, Ewa Adamkiewicz, John Ensminger, Magdalena Sobczyńska, Marta Walczak, Tadeusz Jezierski

The paper is included in the discussion because differences between breeds were found, and the methodology with regard to breed differences demonstrates how potentially confounding variables make these conclusions suspect.

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