"What there seems to be controversy about is euthanasia. If (the critics) have a problem with us euthanizing dogs, it has nothing to do with this tool," Gourkow said. "We have a zero tolerance for the euthanasia of adoptable animals, but we do not adopt out dogs that have been found to be untreatable," she adds.

The only way to find an animal untreatable is to attempt treatment in the first place. A temperament test is not treatment. If a dog is killed because it fails a fifteen minute test, then ipso facto a direct relationship exists between the test and the killing. To claim otherwise is illogical.