20/12/2025
Think about who you support….
🚨 LET’S TALK ABOUT “BEHAVIOUR ASSESSMENTS” 🚨
There are organisations (you know the ones cough *insert 5 letter Organisation* , cough others 👀) that still house and assess a dog’s adoptability while they are caged, isolated, terrified, and disorientated.
You may all remember the video of one said multimillion dollar animal welfare Business assessing 8 week old borders collies they seized by cornering them in a kennel, standing over the top of them waving a clipboard.
They proceeded to murder every single one of them claiming they "failed behaviour assessment'.
Let that sink in.
8 weekers saved from a puppy mill, were then assessed in the puppy mill as to whether they would be ok in a home.... and murdered when they showed fear.
Dogs assessed in kennel environments are often:
❌️Shut down
❌️Overstimulated or under-stimulated
❌️In fight-or-flight
❌️Deprived of connection, routine, and safety
And then labelled “aggressive,” “defensive,” or “unadoptable.”
That assessment is not only false, it’s dangerously misleading.
Because here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud:
👉 You cannot be the best version of yourself when you are isolated day in, day out, with no stimulation, no love, no choice, and no safety.
And neither can a dog. We know how we felt during covid in forced isolation with our social networks cut off...YET we do that to pack animals day in day out and call it "welfare".
This dog, the one we named Floki, the one who blew up our page..... would have failed every single assessment if he had landed in one of those systems.
He would have been walked down the hall and killed in isolation as another un-rehomable statistic while the same organisation takes in millions of dollars a year.
Luckily for Floki, he came into a foster-based rescue.
🥺He was allowed to decompress
🩵He was given space.
🥺Guidance.
🩷A calm routine.
🥺Another well-balanced dog.
🩵Enrichment
🥺Stimulation.
✨️And suddenly… the truth emerged.✨️
He’s doing beautifully 🖤
Still a little scared, but choosing connection every day.
He now:
✅️Comes inside when his foster does
✅️Walks up on his own for pats
✅️Sleeps in the bedroom which HE chooses as his safe space
✅️Has formed the sweetest bond with the carer’s son
✅️And literally tells her when it’s dinner time
✅️He’s toilet trained, prefers to eat solo like the introverted king he is, and is settling into life with quiet confidence.
🩷This is what safety does.✅️
🩷This is what patience does.✅️
🩷This is what love does.✅️
So before you support organisations that rely on archaic behaviour assessments, ask yourself what you’re really backing:
❌ Caged evaluations
❌ Intentional isolation
❌ Antisocial structures that create defensive behaviour
❌ Unnecessary killing of dogs who were never given a real chance
❌️ Donations funding CEOs 7 figure paychecks.
Or…
✅ Foster-based rescues
✅ Decompression before judgement
✅ Rehabilitation over convenience
✅ Seeing the dog, not the fear
Choose the organisations that give dogs the best possible chance of survival, not the fastest path to a decision that maximises profits.
Because when you change the environment,
you change the outcome.
And lives depend on it. 🐾🖤
