30/11/2015
Just finished this survey on dog aggression (or, more accurately, our perception of dog aggression).
“There are three specific elements that we can look at to aid our assessment of aggressive behaviour in dogs – motivation, emotion, and context – but these haven’t been systematically explored scientifically," said Mie Kikuchi, one of the study's creators and a PhD student at the University of Lincoln’s School of Life Sciences.
“We hope the information gathered by our survey will help us to guide people so that they can recognise the causes of aggressive behaviour in dogs, and perhaps contribute to the discussion around how we should deal with HDAB (human-directed aggressive dog behaviour)."
Check out the link and fill out the survey. It took about 20 minutes.
http://lifesciences.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2015/10/20/exploring-cultural-influences-on-the-perception-of-human-directed-aggressive-behaviour-in-dogs/
Human-directed aggressive dog behaviour (HDAB) is considered to be the most serious behavioural issue for dogs around the world, and the rate of dog attacks is an important topic of international i...