How do you decide if a dog in your shelter is “aggressive”? Can aggressive dogs ever be safely rehabilitated and adopted, and if so, which ones – and how?
Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC and Behavioral Consultant for Maddie’s®
Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine will be tackling this and other shelter-related behavior issues in a series of presentations on Saturday, July 13, at the 2013 ASPCA/
Cornell/Maddie’s®
Shelter Medicine Conference in Ithaca, NY.
From the schedule:
Understanding aggression in dogs as it relates to our work in the shelter
4:15pm – 5:15pmEvery day in the shelter field we must make difficult decisions regarding the dogs in our
care that exhibit aggressive behavior. Whether they are surrendered with a history of
aggression or exhibit it while at your facility, deciding if the dog is safe to place up for
adoption is heart wrenching. The goal of this lecture is to explain aggression in dogs as
it relates to our shelter work – where it comes from and what, if anything, we can do to
change it.
Ms. Bollen’s other presentations include:
Intake and Adoption Counseling
1pm-2pm
Advice for common behavior problems in dogs and cats
2:05pm-3:05pm
Reading dog and cat body language
3:10pm-4:10pm
The conference will be held July 13-14, 2013, at the College of
Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The complete
schedule is available here (PDF).
Fees to attend are $75 for veterinarians, $25 for veterinary
technicians, $10 for individuals and free for students. You can register
and see continuing education credit information here.
Also of interest:
Behavior Modification in the Shelter: When and How