CEU Event: Early Life Stress and its Impact on Canine Fear and Aggression
When: Ongoing
Where: Online
CEUs
| *CPDT-KA: | 0 | *CBCC-KA: | 1 |
| CPDT-KSA Knowledge: | 0.00 | ||
| CPDT-KSA Skills: | 0.00 |
* Courses approved for CBCC-KA CEUs may be applied to a CPDT-KA or CPDT-KSA recertification. Courses approved for CPDT-KA or CPDT-KSA may not be applied to a CBCC-KA recertification.
PLEASE NOTE: CPDT-KA can earn a MAXIMUM of 12 CPDT-KSA Skills CEUS within their 3 year certification period.
Description
This talk will examine the behavioral effects of traumatic experiences in dogs, such abuse and abandonment. In a survey study with over 4,400 participants, we collected data on life history of stressful events as well as the Canine Behavior and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ). We found that stressful events had the greatest impact when they occurred within the first 6 months of life. Dogs who experienced stressful events within this time period were significantly more likely to show elevated fear and aggression across all C-BARQ subscales. Furthermore, the impact of early life stress varied significantly across breeds, indicating the likely presence of innate factors for resilience and sensitivity. The next steps of this research will involve genomic analyses, to identify putative protective and risk alleles, as well as neuroimaging analyses, to examine how heritable genetic susceptibility interacts with environmental exposure within the lifetimes of individual dogs.
Sponsor:IAABC Foundation
Speaker(s):Erin Hecht, PhD
Contact:
Email:
questions@iaabcfoundation.org
Web: https://iaabcfoundation.org/animal-behavior-conference/