(08-03-2017, 03:35 PM)Catherine Wrote: They have that over confidence that people get when they have a little knowledge. They don't know enough to know that they don't know enough.
You see that kind of behavior with a lot of different things. A person watches one nature documentary and they think they are an expert. They are willing to explain to you in great detail, something they know very little about.
When you do start to know something you approach a subject more carefully.
Very very true Catherine. This testing is the absolute opposite to being 'holistic'....that is bearing the whole personality in mind.
A dog might behave in a food-aggressive way only in certain circumstances and not in others, which could be managed by those who love that dog enough. When a dog is in extreme stress it cannot stand being poked and prodded. WE would probably snap if we were in a highly stressful situation and someone started pinching and poking us! Yet at more relaxed times, such a thing might be viewed as play.
This whole 'testing' thing is heartless, and not very well thought out.
They don't have time, is what it probably boils down to. They don't have time or inclination to get to know the characters of those dogs. It's a conveyor-belt system. In....then out (either to euthanasia or adoption) I don't know how these people sleep at night.
