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The New York City Housing Authority may be barking up the wrong tree.
Pibulls, rottweilers and dobermans are among the so-called aggressive breeds that are now banned from the city's low-income housing apartments.
But researchers from the University of Córdoba, in Spain, say breed has little to do with a dog's aggressive behavior - it's more about the owners and bad training.
That goes for dogs considered to be aggressive by nature, such as the Rottweiler or the Pit Bull - breeds that the NYCH is banning in its new policy that went into effect on May 1.
The study, published in the Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances reports that approximately 40% of dominance aggression in dogs is associated with a lack of authority on the part of the owners who have never performed basic obedience training with their pets or who have only carried out the bare minimum of training.
Read the whole story here.
Meanwhile, NYCHA residents that have dogs over the new 25 lb limit, reduced from 40-lbs, can keep their dogs but only if they are registered and can show a veterinary certificate indicating they are spayed/neutered, but many cannot afford the pricey spay/neuter surgery,
The Toby Project offers free spay/neuter service in low-income communities of the Bronx via mobile surgical van. For information and schedule information go to www.tobyproject.org.
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