This article describes why it is important to recognize body language cues in dogs both for safety and welfare. How dogs communicate with their body language. Purina Pro Club. Croney, C. Shreyer, T. The Stanton Foundation
Accurate assessments of behavior and welfare are needed to evaluate the state of domestic dogs maintained in commercial breeding (CB) and other types of kennels. Field assessments of dogs’ states of being must be valid, reliable, and efficient. However, concerns about observer subjectivity and situational variation in dogs’ responses pose a challenge to incorporating behavioral metrics into welfare assessment tools. The Field Instantaneous Dog Observation (FIDO) tool, designed to capture the immediately observable physical and behavioral status of dogs in kennels, was thus examined. The Stanton Foundation
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Shreyer, T., Rezvani, T., Croney, C. (2021). Adult Dog Body Handling Checklist. Life of Riley at Spring Point
