Lisa M. Gunter

TL;DR: Findings suggest that breed labeling influences potential adopters' perceptions and decision-making and that removing breed labels is a relatively low-cost strategy that will likely improve outcomes for dogs in animal shelters.

TL;DR: Across all shelters, it was found that dogs’ cortisol: creatinine ratios dropped significantly during their fostering stay, but returned to baseline levels after return to the shelter, however, the observed reduction in cortisol varied in magnitude across shelters.

TL;DR: When the complexity of shelter dog breed heritage and the failure to identify multiple breeds based on visual identification coupled with the inability to predict how these breeds then interact within an individual dog are considered, it is believed that focusing resources on communicating the physical and behavioral characteristics of shelter dogs would best support adoption efforts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the effects of two-and-a-half-hour outings on the urinary cortisol levels and activity of dogs as they awaited adoption at four animal shelters.