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Too many dogs?
November 29, 2011 | 
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The medical term for owning too many dogs?
A roverdose.
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Why does your dog get aggressive on leash?
A new study out of Mendel University in the Czech Republic, which is set to appear in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, attempts to explain the reasons by examining various factors that can affect a dog’s level of aggression toward other dogs on walks.
Specifically, the study spearheaded by Petr Řezάč, an associate professor in the Department of Animal Morphology, Physiology and Genetics, found that a dog’s sex and age can affect his or her inclination to threaten another dog. Perhaps more surprisingly, by observing 1,870 interacting dogs in 30 different public places in the city of Brno from May to September of 2009, the study also found that the sex of the person walking the dog and whether the dog is on a leash affect that dog’s propensity to threaten or attack another dog.
ABC News interview on the results of this study.