- Topic: Behavior Evaluations
- Type: Peer Reviewed Research, Summary and Analysis
This study researched the impact of excluding food guarding from a standardized behavioral canine assessment in animal shelters.
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This study researched the impact of excluding food guarding from a standardized behavioral canine assessment in animal shelters.
Using a detailed hypothetical with statistics drawn from the canine literature, the authors explain why behavior evaluations are “no better than flipping a coin.”
This study is included because the assessment developed has been adopted by other researchers due to its brevity and reported validity.
This is a two-part study that investigated factors that might mediate “aggression,” “fear,” and “anxiety” on behavior evaluations of shelter and pet dogs.
This study is an interesting attempt at combining a retrospective and prospective approach to validating a behavior evaluation.
This study assessed inter-rater reliability and intra-rater repeatability among 40 staff members at the largest canine welfare charity in the UK with respect to canine behavior evaluations.
This study focused specifically on the food guarding subtest of the Safety Assessment for Evaluating Rehoming behavior evaluation, which is commonly used in shelters.
This study evaluated a specific subtest used in many common behavior evaluations. Researchers compared shelter dogs’ behaviors towards both a live and a fake dog.
This study compared three behavior tests designed to assess "aggressive behavior." This was not an attempt at external validation of the tests, but rather an examination of inter-test reliability.
This study evaluated two behavioral assessment tools commonly used in shelters to attempt to predict behavior in adoptive homes.