From Sue Sternberg's website:

Watch for a documentary called Shelter Dogs appearing next year on HBO. It was filmed over the course of eighteen months here at Rondout Valley Animals for Adoption. It will air on their prime spot, Sunday night after the Sopranos. HBO estimates 2--3 million viewers. That should put Accord NY on the map! And it certainly won't hurt her business either!

Exerpts from: http://www.suesternberg.com/00shop.html

Euthanasia decisions are made often arbitrarily, based on shelter overcrowding or breed of dog. Assess-a-Pet™ can help alleviate some of this arbitrariness by providing the shelter with real, substantive information on which to base adoption and euthanasia decisions. In other words, it gives them a scientific reason to kill, like CAMP.

Assess-a-Pet™ is a method by which a shelter dog’s temperament can be evaluated. The gentle, humane, 15 minute evaluation process takes specialized training to implement effectively. It includes: interactions with the dog to assess the likelihood of a bite in the adoptive home, observations of how the dog responds to other dogs, cats and visitors, and assessment of what kind of family would be the best match for the dog. For more details, read Great Dog Adoptions: A Guide for Shelters or attend one of the workshops listed under Calendar of Events.
How the heck can anyone assess a dog in a shelter environment in only 15 minutes?

Assess-a-Pet™ is a temperament testing methodology developed by Sue Sternberg, internationally known author, lecturer, shelter owner and animal behaviorist. The Assess-a-Pet™ methodology was developed over two decades of hands-on animal shelter work and dog behavior analysis, including experience in making decisions on safety, adoptability and euthanasia, matching dogs with new families, and surveying owners after “returns” for aggression in the new home. Its innovator is a dog trainer and behavior consultant who has witnessed the impact of dog aggression on families and neighborhoods, and who wants to draw people to animal shelters to find a great pet.
All through this site, it keeps harping on the "safety" aspect of dogs. I get the honest feeling that Sternberg is really afraid of handling aggressive dogs, so she makes up all these excuses to kill them.

People seeking out a pet dog are looking for a safe, affectionate companion. Assess-a-Pet™ identifies those dogs in animal shelters. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called for interventions to help reduce the nearly 5 million dog bites reported each year. Assess-a-Pet™ is a preventative measure that can match families with safer pets, creating permanent, loving relationships. This means safer communities. A ripple effect is created, in that the shelter will gain the reputation of being the best place anyone can find a new dog, and overall shelter dog populations will then decline. That’s good for dogs and for people. And good for her reputation!
Sternberg appears to be weeding out every possible problem dog, so that she can look good as a trainer. How many dogs do we personally know, who would fail her tests in a shelter, yet away from that stress, they make wonderful, safe pets? She is killing far too many animals, and getting away with it..................