Selecting shelter dogs for service dog training

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-62

  Weiss, Emily ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INDEPENDENCE; INJURY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SELF ESTEEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISABLED PERSON; DOG; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISABLED PERSONS; DOGS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SAFETY;

EID: 0038321615     PISSN: 10888705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327604JAWS0501_4     Document Type: Article

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