General Info about Service Dogs
Websites
PAWS Working Dog Evaluation
The PAWS Test allows you to know if your dog is fit to be a service dog.
Service Dogs and More!
This website contains lots of information on service dogs.
Working Dogs
Info on sled, search and rescue, herding, narcotics, patrol, drafting, and water rescue dogs.
Relevant Articles
Slabbert, J.M. and Rasa, O.A.E., 1997. Observational learning of an acquired maternal behaviour pattern by working dog pups: an alternative training method?. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 53:309–316.
Van Den Borg, J., Netto, W.J. and Planta, D.J., 1991. Behavioural testing of dogs in animal shelters to predict problem behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 32:237–251.
Wilsson, E. and Sundgren, P.-E., 1997. The use of a behaviour test for the selecting of dogs for service and breeding. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 53:279–295.
Books
Humphry, E., Warner, L., 1934. Working Dogs: an attempt to produce a strain of German Shepherds which combine working ability and beauty of conformation. Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins Univ. Press
Ledger, R.A., Baxter, M.R., 1997. The development of a validated test to assess the temperament of dogs in a rescue shelter. In: Mills, D.S., Heath, S.E., Harrington, L.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Veterinary Behaviour Medicine.
Lithgrow, S., 1991. Training and Working Dogs. University of Queensland Press, Queensland, Australia, pp. 227.
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