A new paper from the Animal Welfare Program discusses how minor procedural variations affect dog behaviour during sociability assessments. These standardized tests to evaluate a dog’s sociability towards humans are often used to make life and death decisions for dogs in shelters. However, new data have found that minor variations in these tests result in very different conclusions about the dog’s sociability, raising the question of validity of these tests.
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