Dog welfare: Reasons for relinquishing dogs

• Autores: Katrina Summerton
• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 177, Nº. 12, 2015, págs. 320-320
• Idioma: inglés
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  • ACCORDING to a number of publications, the commonest reason for a dog being brought in by its owner to a rehoming centre relates to concerns about the dog's behaviour (Miller and others 1996, Diesel and others 2010).

    Over the past year I have been volunteering at the Hull Animal Welfare Trust and, during the course of my first few weeks, I began to question this traditional view about dog relinquishment. I therefore sought permission from the trust to prospectively assemble …