Current Research on Canine Compulsive Behavior
By Nicole Cottam, MS, ACAAB
Dobermans helped Tufts researchers understand the keys to Canine Compulsive Disorder.
The research team at the Tufts Animal Behavior Clinic has long suspected that canine compulsive behavior has a genetic component. Recently, this suspicion was confirmed with the discovery that a variant of a gene, which codes for cadherin-2, was overrepresented in a sample of Doberman Pinschers