Canine Scientific Studies

• Survey of the use and outcome of confrontational and non-confrontational training methods in client-owned dogs showing undesired behaviors, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2009; 117 (1-2): 47.

• Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs, David Mech, Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1196:1203.

• Considerations for shock and ‘training’ collars: Concerns from and for the working dog community, (Overall) Journal of Veterinary Behavior (2007) 2, 103-107.

• Training dogs with help of the shock collar: short and long term behavioural effects, (Schilder, van der Borg) Applied Animal Behaviour Science 85 (2004) 319–334.

• Can Aggression in Dogs Be Elicited Through the Use of Electronic Pet Containment Systems? (Polsky) Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 2000 Vol. 3 No. 4 pp. 345-357.

• Training methods and owner–dog interactions: Links with dog behaviour and learning ability, Rooney and Cowin, Anim. Behav. Sci., 132 (3–4) (2011), pp. 169-177.

• Dominance in domestic dogs—useful construct or bad habit? J.W.S. Bradshaw, E.J. Blackwell, R.A. Casey, J. Vet. Behav. Clin. Appl. Res., 4 (2009), pp. 135-144.

• Dog training methods: their use, effectiveness and interaction with behaviour and welfare, E.F. Hiby, N.J. Rooney, J.W.S. Bradshaw, Anim. Welf., 13 (1) (2004), pp. 63-69.

• Does training method matter? Evidence for the negative impact of aversive-based methods on companion dog welfare, A.C. Vieira de Castro, D. Fuchs, G.M. Morello, S. Pastur, L. de Sousa, A.S. Olsson, PLoS One, 15 (12) (2020).

• Disambiguating the “guilty look”: Salient prompts to a familiar dog behaviour, Horowitz A. (2009), Behavioural Processes, 81 (3) 447-452.