Pit bull label may triple length of stay in dog shelters
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 13:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Dogs labelled as "pit bulls" may wait three times as long to be adopted from shelters than differently labelled lookalikes, according to a study published March 23, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Lisa Gunter from Arizona State University, USA, and colleagues.