Mariya Chukhray

ISM Period 7

Rider, David, and Debbie munsell. “Impacts of Long-Term Sheltering on Dogs.” Pets for

Patriots, 24 Oct. 2017, petsforpatriots.org/partner-news/impacts-of-long-term-

sheltering-dogs/.

• The longer a dog stays in a shelter, the less likely they are to get adopted because of the impact
shelters have on them
• The “no-kill” movement has given animals a better chance at adoption and created a positive
change in the shelters
• Shelters can create new behaviors or heighten current ones
• Dogs spend most of their time in kennels so enrichment is an important element to aid stress
• Dogs use their kennels as a bathroom lead them to do the same in a house so people are
looking into in shelter house training
• Should have 3-4 walks a day
• Dogs are social animals however a shelter environment inhibits their natural tendencies to
investigate, and socialize with people and other dogs
• Play groups with other dogs reduces shelter stress and encourages socialization which helps to
dog to be more friendly and open
• No socialization leads to aggression
• Shelters do their best to prevent surrender through training, enrichment, and educating
• Volunteers should educate people on the responsibilities on pet guardianship
• Too many adopters are not prepared to bring home a rescued pet so concealing the foster care
can help the dogs and future owners
• Strategies used by shelter workers are working to reduce stress and abandonment
• Some dogs are dropped off at the shelter abused, neglected, and abandoned and an animal
shelter can make it worse
• A shelter is not a home for dogs and many are staying for to long, up to the years

The Pets for Patriots web page thoroughly covers the basic necessities for dogs and describes the
behaviors they encompass in a shelter moderately.
 Mariya Chukhray
ISM- Period 7

Byrd, Briannan. “Human-Canine Relationships: Dogs Behavior and Owner Perception.” Liberty

University, 2012, digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?

article=1313&context=honors.

• Genetics and environment impacts a dogs behaviors

• Owners can unwillingly encourage misbehavior sometimes due to a communication barrier
• Research showed correlation between dogs bad behavior and an owner perception
• No correlation between what people thought they know and their dogs behavior
• Dogs provided aid in medical care and exercise
• Behaviorists believe owners play huge role in dogs behavior and being mostly concerned about
aggression
• Dogs and people have a mutually beneficial relationship; oldest and strongest
• Fossils of dogs since the beginning of humanity
• Paintings on caves
• Dogs helped with livestock, guarding homes, pulling, hunting for food, sniffing out criminals,
and were the first animals to be domesticated
• Dogs used on mental patients to aid anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate
• Dogs were also a bridge of communication with children for psychologists dubbed Animal
Assisted Therapy, they were used because dogs didn’t show neglect and were lovable
• Negative: Dogs used to be mistreated and only used a status symbol and demanded them to
object
• Problems with dogs included barking, jumping, hyperactivity, anxiety, destructiveness yet
aggression was rarely a complaint
• Aggression includes maternal, predatory, or dominance
• Study done in Australia proved that most dogs confined to backyards only had behavioral
issues
• Type of housing and number of people effects dog aggression
• Rural areas had more aggressive dogs along with dogs confined to one area only
• Research suggested that aggression is tolerated in bigger dogs according to a breed study
where golden retrievers. German shepherds, and labradors showing the least aggression and
smaller the medium dogs showing the most.

The research essay had incredible detail that went through various situations between canines
and humans and was very well written.
 Mariya Chukhray
ISM- Period 7

“Animal Shelters: Hope for the Homeless.” PETA, 14 Oct. 2013, www.peta.org/issues/animal-

companion-issues/animal-shelters-hope-homeless/.

• Different Shelters have different rules and protocols

• Biggest challenges are faced by open admission shelters that must accept all animals regardless
if they can care for them or not
• Challenge include overcrowding, constant admissions, bad healthcare, limited resources,
stress, specific holding period, untrained staff, poor facility, disease control, media scrutiny,
and admission of species other than cats and dogs
• Medical issues like examining, vaccinating, diagnosing, treating, neutering, and performing
evaluations
• Some shelters are funded on donations only so finances is also a problem
• Sometimes tax money requires that experiments are performed on some animals which is
known as “pound seizure”
• Some take it dogs and cats only and others will take in birds or reptiles depending on if they’re
certified for wildlife
• Most shelters kill older animals, ill animals, and aggressive ones due to space limitation
• Ideal animal shelters should have kind and attentive workers and volunteers
• Animals are killed by intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital
• Some no kill shelters will only accept young or attractive dogs to avoid killing
• Some animals stay in cages for years which effect their behavior anti-socially and can become
depressed or make it hard to be house broken
• Animals in shelters suffer with lack of exercise, playtime, and care
• Some no kill shelters have been shut down due to animal neglect which turned into cruelty

The ASPCA organization had informative details which describe current shelter environments
along with their recommendations for a better environment for animals.