What is Ethical Dog Rehabilitation?

Ethical dog rehabilitation provides the experienced professionals - for as long as it takes to rehabilitate the dog. No animal welfare society ought to intake a dog whose behaviour is so dangerous that killing it is a necessity. That public safety duty belongs to pounds, not humane societies. If the humane society finds itself with a dog that has failed to be safely rehabilitated, then it must find someone who will care for the dog with ongoing assistance for as long as it takes. This is one more reason why humane societies should not have policies of unlimited surrender which encourages many owners of dangerous dogs to off-load their responsibility by surrendering their dog to the local humane society which then kills it.

Ethical humane societies have trained professionals on staff or contract with trained professionals to rehabilitate their dogs. Many humane societies claim to have state-of-the-art rehabilitation programs, but in fact they are inconsistently applied, if at all, and is more about P.R. than animal-welfare.

Many unethical humane societies actually turn down free offers from professional rehabilitators as it is "too much bother" for the staff, who are trained in animal disposal, not animal-welfare.