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Position Statement on Shelters and Dog Breeding
The Functional Dog Collaborative (FDC) has been asked: Do you think shelters should breed dogs? In short, no - FDC is not calling for animal shelters to breed dogs. The FDC does seek collaboration between shelters and breeders at the community level. Shelters are...
Breed, Behavior, and Mutt Genomics
Morrill, Kathleen, et al. "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes." Science 376.6592 (2022): eabk0639. PubMed Link | Full Text Link by Jessica Hekman, DVM, PhD (Note: the author of this summary is second author on the paper) This paper...
“We Socialize Puppies” – What Good Socialization Practices Look Like and What to Watch Out For
What is Socialization? Technically “socialization” is the complex process that begins even before birth, by which an animal - including every human - becomes familiar and habituated to the environment in which it lives. For humans, it’s learning what is “normal” -...