Animal Welfare Professionals

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.

• Saving normal: A new look at behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• No Better Than Flipping a Coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters, Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley
• What is the evidence for reliability and validity of behavior evaluations for shelter dogs? A prequel to "No better than flipping a coin", Gary Patronek, Janis Bradley, Elizabeth Arps
• Dog Bites – Problems and Solutions 2nd Edition, Janis Bradley
• Shelter dog behavior assessments don't work. Here's what does. (blog)

Keynote address: Irreconcilable differences? Maybe not! A new look at 50 years of data about behavioral incompatibilities and dog relinquishment to shelters.
Presented by Janis Bradley, MA, Director of Communications & Publications, National Canine Research Council

Please use this thread to ask follow-up questions to our presenters about this session. Any questions that we don't get a chance to answer during the live Q&A session will be answered here.

Janis holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in English. She first pursued a career as a college teacher, counselor, and administrator.  Leaving academia, she then took up professionally her passion for the human-canine relationship. From 2000 through 2009, Janis trained more than 400 professional pet dog trainers.

Janis is the co-author of the articles: "No better than flipping a coin: Reconsidering canine behavior evaluations in animal shelters" , "Who is minding the bibliography? Daisy chaining, dropped leads, and other bad behavior using examples from the dog bite literature," and "Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites". She is also the author of Dogs Bite, But Balloons and Slippers are More Dangerous (James and Kenneth), the complete guide to research on dog bites; Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions (Animals and Society Institute); and The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog (National Canine Research Council Vision Series). All of this comes from an abiding interest in finding the very best information about the remarkable relationship between dogs and people. She lives in California with her rescued Greyhounds.