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Keyes turned to her computer to make sure that she was giving the correct numbers on aggressive Pit Bulls and replied that, “We had in 2016, it looks like we had only four Pit Bulls that was declared ‘viscous.’ In a way this surprised me because Pit Bulls have been portrayed as overly aggressive in the past, and that is when it confirmed my theory that not all Pit Bulls that go into the shelter are actually aggressive. Going straight to the source is one way to learn the truth against stereotypes, since there are few people who can read a dog’s behavior correctly. Interestingly, there have been only 23 dogs who an officer has placed them under aggression warning. The officer can determine the behavior of the dog when they pick the dog up. Now …show more content…

If they witness any concerning behaviors such as growling, biting, food aggression, or aggressive behaviors toward other dogs they will make supervisors aware. At that point, we will assess the dog individually in as many different situations as possible (interaction with men and women, how do they act in the cage versus outside, allowing them to be near another dog in a controlled environment, can we touch tail, paws, mouth, etc.) to see if they react to any of the stimuli. We do not have anyone with a degree in Animal Behavior on our staff, so we are not able to do what is considered a full “Behavior Evaluation,” but between all the staff there are many years of experience working with animals of all types and we use this experience and best judgement to determine if the dog has aggressive tendencies to the best of our abilities. One downside to our evaluations is it is very hard to replicate some experiences a dog may be placed into in the “real world” that cannot be replicated in the shelter setting, so there is always the possibility that even though we evaluated the dog still could show aggression due to a certain unknown

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