Location, Kamloops, British Columbia, CANADA, attack happened approximately November 26th/27th 2025, Reported December 18th 2025 (the report lists that the incident happened approximately three weeks prior to the news report)
Sadly you can't make this up, from the same city that blamed drugs in three pit bull type dogs that went on a rampage, jumped a fence to kill a senior collie, here now the same city and I assume same people in charge of dealing with dangerous dogs, have now released a Pit Bull back into society, with conditions of a muzzle and containment, also agree that they cannot monitor the situation due to lack of funding.
They also have done supposedly a "Doll Test" on the dog in which is passed, and have assessed that the dog can be safely rehabilitated and is safe to return to its owners under these conditions. The dog also resides in a home with a six month old and a two year old child. The first newscast I report here does not report the dog as a "Pit Bull" but the second report on the CBC daybreak program the mother does indeed say it is some sort of pit bull mix.
This is horrific, at this point it doesn't even seem there is anything going to happen to the owner, or the dog, as the dog has ALREADY BEEN RETURNED TO THE OWNER.
I cannot fathom how this dog is ever let back into society, let alone can be trained, and how this city could possibly do this, and what the outcome will be when/if this dog attacks again, the video is gruesome so NSFW and I think everyone here will think its absolutely appalling the decision this city has made, yet, like I say in the past, three dogs went on a rampage and killed a senior collie by jumping a fence and nothing was done about it.
I also note that approximately five to seven years ago, the same city had a pit bull maul someone to death and they blamed that incident on a epileptic seizure and that that specific dog was "helping the person" by maiming and or/mauling him to death.
When will this stop????????
Sagebrush family shocked by Kamloops CSO decision to return dog home after attack on child
Dec 18, 2025 | 5:13 PM
Sagebrush family shocked by Kamloops CSO decision to return dog home after attack on child
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops family is calling for stronger enforcement surrounding animal attacks after their son was brutally mauled by a dog three weeks ago.
The incident caused life-altering injuries to a 10-year-old child and instead of being euthanized, the dog was labelled as aggressive by City of Kamloops Community Services and returned home to its owners. The boy’s family is outraged and wants more detailed information into why the city’s Community Services department didn’t pursue destruction proceedings.
Instead of getting ready for Christmas as usual this year, Jennifer Billingsley and her family are recovering after their son Jackson was mauled by a dog in a downtown Kamloops neighbourhood.
“This was an unprovoked attack on a 10-year-old boy whose life will be altered forever,” Billingsley told CFJC Today Thursday (Dec. 18).
On the afternoon of November 26, 10-year-old Jackson and his friends were saying hi to a neighbour and were invited to meet a dog belonging to someone staying at the neighbours’ home. The dog rushed Jackson, bit his face, bit through the boy’s hand and had to be pulled off twice.
“Jackson then ran home. I heard the commotion, came downstairs and he was just turning the corner to go into the bathroom, and all I could see was just blood,” recalls his mother. “He had a huge gash across his cheek, and then another one, so it was folded over. His lip was shredded and just hanging. He had a gouge by his chin and along his cheekbone and just one below his eye. The doctor did tell us we were very lucky that it wasn’t any higher because he would have lost his eye.”
Jackson was rushed to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, where it was determined his injuries were so severe he had to be transported to Kelowna to see a plastic surgeon specializing in traumatic injuries.
“This isn’t somebody who got their finger nipped or somebody who got scared by a dog barking,” Billingsley reiterates. “This is someone who was mauled in his own neighbourhood.”
While the child was recovering after surgery and reading ‘get well soon’ letters from his classmates, the dog was seized and assessed by a behaviour consultant. Out of that, Billingsley says the animal was designated as an aggressive dog but released to its owners under specific conditions it stays in the yard, is leashed and muzzled.
“We were told by the people who live in the house that they’re not putting the dog down and that they’re doing everything by the letter of the law — which they are because the city has allowed them to go back,” she says, “but the city isn’t checking in. They don’t have the resources to be able to ensure these people are following the rules, so it’s passive. The only way we will know if something has happened is if somebody takes a picture of it happening and sends it into them or if there’s another attack.”
Billingsley felt the investigation into the incident wasn’t thorough enough and needed more interviews to be gathered, including from her son, before a decision was made.
“At the end of the day, our community is three blocks from three different schools, two of which are elementary schools. It’s a walking path, kids are walking by there every day,” she stresses. “It’s just not an acceptable outcome for our community safety.”
The family asked to appeal the decision that came out of the behaviour assessment, but was turned down. Billingsley has now applied to receive the dog’s assessment report through a Freedom of Information request, and depending on what that report says about how the city reached its conclusion, she’ll be considering legal action.
Troy DeSouza is a lawyer with Dominion GovLaw, who has worked on many dog attack cases in British Columbia. He agrees that, in this instance, the family’s next move should be to get more information about why the city decided not to pursue applying to have the dog euthanized.
“The parties that could be held responsible are primarily the dog owner and the owner of the property where the dog resided. Those are sort of the key nexuses there. I think it’s harder to bring in some liability to the city unless there is something that they knew or ought to have known with respect to that dangerous dog,” DeSouza says.
Billingsley says the city pointed to its duty to taxpayers in not pursuing destruction proceedings under the Community Charter, where the likelihood of success is low. But DeSouza says there normally is a high likelihood of getting an order from a provincial judge on humane destruction when it is related to extensive injuries from an unprovoked attack on a child.
“I would agree with the city where they say, ‘Well, you know, if there’s an unreasonable likelihood of success then I don’t want to spend the taxpayer dollars. I agree, full stop. But if that basis of assertion is wrong, then you have to look at public safety because the taxpayer dollars will be a lot more if someone else gets hurt,” he explains. “That’s where liability exposure lies, so it’s a bigger picture. You can try and save some money here but you’re going to end up paying it later if that dog goes out and injures another person, and then there’s the impact to that next victim. There’s a bigger picture here and it’s all about public safety.”
CFJC reached out to the City of Kamloops Community Services Department for an interview about the incident, but did not hear back by deadline.
CBC Daybreak interview with mother, December 16th, 2025
Kamloops mother speaks out after dog attack
<I have transcribed this, I didn't transcribe everything word for word but please feel free to listen to it because it is graphic, and will paint the exact picture of how these events unfolded>
A Kamloops mother is speaking out after her 10 year old son was attacked by a neighbor's dog, he suffered serious injuries to his face and needed plastic surgery in Kelowna, the family is still dealing with the trauma and are not satisfied at how the case is being handled.
Her son and two of his friends, went to visit the neighbor which is three doors down, when they got there they were asked to meet the roommates dog, they went into the back yard, and one of the kids didn't go into the yard, the owner opened the door, the dog ran out, without hesitation the dog went right after Jackson, jumped right up on his face and tore it.
His injuries are absolutely gruesome and intensive, our neighbor pulled the dog off Jackson and took another round at him, biting through his hand with his k-9. The boy was rushed to the local hospital but had to be transferred to another for a plastic surgeon.
The boy doesn't understand how the dog can go home, he doesn't understand how the dog could be home, the bylaw officer didn't even talk to him, they didn't ask him any questions. The boy doesn't want to see his reflection anymore, they're putting stuff up on windows, uncomfortable to go to school.
He will have lifelong scars, they're hopeful his lip will go back to normal, the extent of the boys injuries was his lip was shredded from the corner of his lip like a "Joker Smile", looks like a knife was taken and cut his cheek in half, looks like a cut with a fork, a inch laceration below his eye, and another near his chin leading towards his neck. Mother believes these easily could have been life altering.
She reported this incident to the bylaw officer in the evening and she provided a written statement after they came back from the hospital.
What kind of dog was this? (the reporter asks) the understanding is it's a small younger Pit Bull Cross, the owner is a young woman 18 or 19 years old, that struggle to control the dog, she was hysterical, trying to send the dog to training and "turn it around" they didn't think it would be aggressive to humans but has been reactive to other dogs, which is not uncommon, but quite concerning.
The bylaw wanted to meet face to face that night at midnight, she sent in a written statement, asked to talk to the kids, she requested a non-trauma report, they knew nothing about it, and in the end only one child met with the bylaw officer, but unfortunately because of the delay they couldn't recall the details, and her son the victim is too traumatized to recall the event.
The boy isn't able to go back to school due to his injuries, and trauma from the incident, he still has swelling, stitches have been gone, he doesn't want to relive the incident and go to school.
Mother has concerns that the six month old, and another child under two lives at the same home, she is worried for their safety, she is worried about her sons safety, she is looking to going to court to have the dog deemed dangerous. They have to argue whether this dog meets the requirements of a "dangerous dog" under the charter but the person she spoke to said that this is one of the worst bites he has ever seen that has not caused a fatality. Unfortunately they did an assessment saying that this dog could be "rehabilitated" and the cities legal council and assessment team believes that the dog doesn't pose a threat of causing harm in the future.
The dog has been returned to the owner, without any notifications to these neighbors, the city says it's not a risk if it's on leash and muzzled.
The mother has not talked to the owner, the boy doesn't think its safe, doesn't want it in the neighborhood, the city says their assessment of the dog has been done with "dolls" and the "outcome" due to the "dolls" equivalates it to not being dangerous.
The mother has asked for the decision to be reversed, there is no way for an appeal for victims to have this changed, the mothers top concern is who will be enforcing the rules that the dog is muzzled or kept in the yard, and the city person said they're relying it on the owners to do it, they have zero capacity to ensure that it is enforced or controlled.
Pitbulls have more rights than children.
Seriously they do. And if you try to defend the kid they will come after you
istg every single one of them has "i take it up the ass" energy until they have to defend their shitbull
If a wild animal did this it would be put down no questions asked.
Why would you even wanna keep a dog who acted so horrifically? Put the beast to rest.
I cannot even imagine.
Because it’s like they’re in a cult they care more about these monsters that anything else. Years in the future it’s probably going to be classified as mental illness we should call it shitbull sympathizer syndrome
They are a cult. Look up Best Friend society and it's past. It was founded by former members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement. They invest a ton of money to lobby for pit bulls and advocate for the "no-kill" philosophy in animal shelters, that leads to dangerous dogs (most of them pits) being adopted out.
They love that dog so much more than their own children.
Why own a dog genetically programmed to maim and kill, just as surely as herding dogs herd. Should only be allowed for licensed people who have a need, ala other potentially dangerous animals. Face reality
"Unfortunately they did an assessment saying that this dog could be 'rehabilitated' and the cities legal council and assessment team believes that the dog doesn't pose a threat of causing harm in the future."
Excusefucking me? This dog killed another dog. Gave a child horrific, life-altering face injuries (and for absolutely no "reason"; it was simply let out the door and saw its chance to maul someone).
I am so scared for those 2 babies in that home. Something is going to happen.
Wait you didn't see that it existed in the same room as a doll for 10 minutes in an artificial unnatural environment therefore all of that is a completely mute point? /s
Dogs definitely can't tell the difference between an inanimate object and a living human being, also....
The dog was probably zooted out of his mind with trazodone.
Sue the owner and anyone responsible for allowing the monster to continue to exist. Doll testing? An inanimate object with no human smell? Really?
Look, I don't care if they brought the kid's identical twin into testing and the dog didn't attack. That proves nothing. The dog did unequivocally, horrifically, attack this kid unprovoked and went back for more after being pulled away.
Can you imagine if that's how we treated human murderers. "Dear Judge, yes the murderer is on video commiting the act, but we put the murder in a room with a different woman and he didn't murder her so we think he's fine to go home. His girlfriend promises he won't leave the yard."
Been attacked and had the dog act completely normal afterwards. Acting normal means nothing, it happens on a dime and you never know when.
Being in Canada, during isn’t as big of a thing here as in the States. The financial compensation would most likely be minimal, the proceedings are drawn out, and can retraumatize the victims. Settlements tend to be between a couple thousand to maybe 100k but that’s in the most extreme cases, and not likely (despite how horrific these injuries are for this poor child).
What else can be done to discourage pit ownership? The official apathy is baffling.
I don’t even know :/ I live in Ontario where there is a pit bull ban on paper it isn’t enforced anywhere, even where there are attacks. It’s disheartening
I plan to give an anti pit speech at my next Toastmasters meeting. People aren't allowed to criticize content so I'll go heavy with the vitriol.
That is amazing!!
The big glaring question that is obvious to all of us and is the same question on and on: why (edit: are) they willing to ruin their lives and others to defend the indefensible.
The mother, Jennifer Billingsley, sounds like an intelligent and well spoken woman. I accidentally started the interview halfway through and thought she was a reporter summarising the events! She's a great advocate for her son.
I sincerely hope the community rallies around her son and are able to put enough pressure on the council to reverse this decision.
I am sick in my soul from horrors like this. When will the nightmare end? That poor little boy. 💔
A DOG CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FUCKING DOLL AND A CHILD.
How is that even real?
It’s a DOG for fucks sake! We’re talking about CHILDREN. HUMAN BEINGS. I cannot imagine how this family— and the whole neighborhood— feels!
Damn shame that authorities are so wimpy and apathetic.
They know the owner cannot enforce the conditions and they still return the pit to him?
Hot damnation! Are they trying to get the owner mauled next?
Just the owners two babies apparently :/
Bc is full of "crunchy" kale lover types, not surprised.
Canada.. why am I not surprised. They are worse than we are about these shitbeasts.
So it gets another chance to kill.
Lesson learned: Never visit Kamloops, British Columbia.
Copy of text post for attack logging purposes: Location, Kamloops, British Columbia, CANADA, attack happened approximately November 26th/27th 2025, Reported December 18th 2025 (the report lists that the incident happened approximately three weeks prior to the news report)
Sadly you can't make this up, from the same city that blamed drugs in three pit bull type dogs that went on a rampage, jumped a fence to kill a senior collie, here now the same city and I assume same people in charge of dealing with dangerous dogs, have now released a Pit Bull back into society, with conditions of a muzzle and containment, also agree that they cannot monitor the situation due to lack of funding.
They also have done supposedly a "Doll Test" on the dog in which is passed, and have assessed that the dog can be safely rehabilitated and is safe to return to its owners under these conditions. The dog also resides in a home with a six month old and a two year old child. The first newscast I report here does not report the dog as a "Pit Bull" but the second report on the CBC daybreak program the mother does indeed say it is some sort of pit bull mix.
This is horrific, at this point it doesn't even seem there is anything going to happen to the owner, or the dog, as the dog has ALREADY BEEN RETURNED TO THE OWNER.
I cannot fathom how this dog is ever let back into society, let alone can be trained, and how this city could possibly do this, and what the outcome will be when/if this dog attacks again, the video is gruesome so NSFW and I think everyone here will think its absolutely appalling the decision this city has made, yet, like I say in the past, three dogs went on a rampage and killed a senior collie by jumping a fence and nothing was done about it.
I also note that approximately five to seven years ago, the same city had a pit bull maul someone to death and they blamed that incident on a epileptic seizure and that that specific dog was "helping the person" by maiming and or/mauling him to death.
When will this stop????????
Sagebrush family shocked by Kamloops CSO decision to return dog home after attack on child
Dec 18, 2025 | 5:13 PM
https://cfjctoday.com/2025/12/18/sagebrush-family-shocked-by-city-of-kamloops-cso-decision-to-return-dog-home-after-attack-on-child/
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops family is calling for stronger enforcement surrounding animal attacks after their son was brutally mauled by a dog three weeks ago.
The incident caused life-altering injuries to a 10-year-old child and instead of being euthanized, the dog was labelled as aggressive by City of Kamloops Community Services and returned home to its owners. The boy’s family is outraged and wants more detailed information into why the city’s Community Services department didn’t pursue destruction proceedings.
Instead of getting ready for Christmas as usual this year, Jennifer Billingsley and her family are recovering after their son Jackson was mauled by a dog in a downtown Kamloops neighbourhood.
“This was an unprovoked attack on a 10-year-old boy whose life will be altered forever,” Billingsley told CFJC Today Thursday (Dec. 18).
On the afternoon of November 26, 10-year-old Jackson and his friends were saying hi to a neighbour and were invited to meet a dog belonging to someone staying at the neighbours’ home. The dog rushed Jackson, bit his face, bit through the boy’s hand and had to be pulled off twice.
“Jackson then ran home. I heard the commotion, came downstairs and he was just turning the corner to go into the bathroom, and all I could see was just blood,” recalls his mother. “He had a huge gash across his cheek, and then another one, so it was folded over. His lip was shredded and just hanging. He had a gouge by his chin and along his cheekbone and just one below his eye. The doctor did tell us we were very lucky that it wasn’t any higher because he would have lost his eye.”
Jackson was rushed to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, where it was determined his injuries were so severe he had to be transported to Kelowna to see a plastic surgeon specializing in traumatic injuries.
“This isn’t somebody who got their finger nipped or somebody who got scared by a dog barking,” Billingsley reiterates. “This is someone who was mauled in his own neighbourhood.”
While the child was recovering after surgery and reading ‘get well soon’ letters from his classmates, the dog was seized and assessed by a behaviour consultant. Out of that, Billingsley says the animal was designated as an aggressive dog but released to its owners under specific conditions it stays in the yard, is leashed and muzzled.
“We were told by the people who live in the house that they’re not putting the dog down and that they’re doing everything by the letter of the law — which they are because the city has allowed them to go back,” she says, “but the city isn’t checking in. They don’t have the resources to be able to ensure these people are following the rules, so it’s passive. The only way we will know if something has happened is if somebody takes a picture of it happening and sends it into them or if there’s another attack.”
Billingsley felt the investigation into the incident wasn’t thorough enough and needed more interviews to be gathered, including from her son, before a decision was made.
“At the end of the day, our community is three blocks from three different schools, two of which are elementary schools. It’s a walking path, kids are walking by there every day,” she stresses. “It’s just not an acceptable outcome for our community safety.”
The family asked to appeal the decision that came out of the behaviour assessment, but was turned down. Billingsley has now applied to receive the dog’s assessment report through a Freedom of Information request, and depending on what that report says about how the city reached its conclusion, she’ll be considering legal action.
Troy DeSouza is a lawyer with Dominion GovLaw, who has worked on many dog attack cases in British Columbia. He agrees that, in this instance, the family’s next move should be to get more information about why the city decided not to pursue applying to have the dog euthanized.
“The parties that could be held responsible are primarily the dog owner and the owner of the property where the dog resided. Those are sort of the key nexuses there. I think it’s harder to bring in some liability to the city unless there is something that they knew or ought to have known with respect to that dangerous dog,” DeSouza says.
Billingsley says the city pointed to its duty to taxpayers in not pursuing destruction proceedings under the Community Charter, where the likelihood of success is low. But DeSouza says there normally is a high likelihood of getting an order from a provincial judge on humane destruction when it is related to extensive injuries from an unprovoked attack on a child.
“I would agree with the city where they say, ‘Well, you know, if there’s an unreasonable likelihood of success then I don’t want to spend the taxpayer dollars. I agree, full stop. But if that basis of assertion is wrong, then you have to look at public safety because the taxpayer dollars will be a lot more if someone else gets hurt,” he explains. “That’s where liability exposure lies, so it’s a bigger picture. You can try and save some money here but you’re going to end up paying it later if that dog goes out and injures another person, and then there’s the impact to that next victim. There’s a bigger picture here and it’s all about public safety.”
CFJC reached out to the City of Kamloops Community Services Department for an interview about the incident, but did not hear back by deadline.
CBC Daybreak interview with mother, December 16th, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-108-daybreak-kamloops/clip/16187946-kamloops-mother-speaks-dog-attack
<I have transcribed this, I didn't transcribe everything word for word but please feel free to listen to it because it is graphic, and will paint the exact picture of how these events unfolded>
A Kamloops mother is speaking out after her 10 year old son was attacked by a neighbor's dog, he suffered serious injuries to his face and needed plastic surgery in Kelowna, the family is still dealing with the trauma and are not satisfied at how the case is being handled.
Her son and two of his friends, went to visit the neighbor which is three doors down, when they got there they were asked to meet the roommates dog, they went into the back yard, and one of the kids didn't go into the yard, the owner opened the door, the dog ran out, without hesitation the dog went right after Jackson, jumped right up on his face and tore it.
His injuries are absolutely gruesome and intensive, our neighbor pulled the dog off Jackson and took another round at him, biting through his hand with his k-9. The boy was rushed to the local hospital but had to be transferred to another for a plastic surgeon.
The boy doesn't understand how the dog can go home, he doesn't understand how the dog could be home, the bylaw officer didn't even talk to him, they didn't ask him any questions. The boy doesn't want to see his reflection anymore, they're putting stuff up on windows, uncomfortable to go to school.
He will have lifelong scars, they're hopeful his lip will go back to normal, the extent of the boys injuries was his lip was shredded from the corner of his lip like a "Joker Smile", looks like a knife was taken and cut his cheek in half, looks like a cut with a fork, a inch laceration below his eye, and another near his chin leading towards his neck. Mother believes these easily could have been life altering.
She reported this incident to the bylaw officer in the ev
Im so curious about the previous attacks accredited to drugs
I posted on it awhile back, it's a real sad story about a senior Collie that is peacefully in its backyard minding its business when three pit bulls jump the fence, maim n maul it then they go back to terrorizing people and the neighborhood. Then when they're taken in it's deemed the reason they did it was because they were supposedly high on meth, you can't make this stuff up.
We then had some special trainer from Victoria I believe say he could refrain one or all of them, and he backed out of it later, now we are unsure of what happened to the dogs because like most stuff the stories go cold. I feel without proof that the same people are at work here that is protecting this pit bull basically....
We also had a person about six or seven years ago die from a tragic attack from what I understand he was wheelchair bound, and supposedly (because really who knows) the person had a epileptic seizure and the pit mauled him to death because he was trying to help him, no making this crap up.
Sadly like others have mentioned we even have pits banned in Ontario, it's no better there when premiere jumped in to have a supooseded misidentified pit bull blu saved by having it released which was owned by a tv celebrity Tommy Chang, they held rallies for this pit bull. Once released the dog mauled his student only two days later, of course on the face, and we never heard anything after that, it went radio silent. The premier had vowed to get rid of the pit bull legislation but surprisingly nothing was mentioned afterwards of it, surprise surprise.
I feel the same thing will happen here, that happened with the Collie death, they'll bury it and hope we will forget.
We had another case of a boy that lost his ball, and went over the fence to get attacked as well but they blamed that on the parents, not the pit bull because you know he went into the pits territory, and was only doing what meat grinders do.... Blame the boy.
But again my opinion, with no real facts to back it but I do believe someone in our departments responsible for this is a pit supporter, or pit apologist. It truly is sad isn't it? I'm hoping that our community comes together, and demands action, and the right outcome happens because this is complete and utter bullshit.
I really hope that with this article, a reconstructive/plastic surgeon(s) will offer to operate on the poor kid pro bono. I normally don't expect professionals to ever work for free, but I dated a plastic surgeon for five years, and sometimes in cases like this, they do. It's excellent advertising for their practice and it gets a story in the local news because it's "feel good."
Barring that, I hope the family starts a GoFundMe.
So sad.
In Canada we have a national healthcare system that will cover this, but never the trauma that this boy has suffered.
WOW, that's great! That's so great! I'm glad! It will probably take multiple surgeries, but hopefully the boy will not be badly disfigured.
Free healthcare for the win up here
I'm so happy for you. You deserve it. It sucks that a child--or anyone--here in the USA would have to rely on a GoFundMe to get reconstructive surgery for something like this.
Can you get mental health care services, too? Like trauma counseling? Do you have to pay out of pocket for that?
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So, theoretically speaking, if the mom were to take matters into her own hands and do what the city should have done, does anyone know the legal ramifications of that kind of action?
The value we place on domestic animal life is so asymmetric. Cows, pigs, chickens? Yeah sure pen 'em up in horrible conditions and slaughter them by the millions.
Pitbull horribly mauls a small child into total disfigurement? WE CAN FIX HIM!!!!!
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I add this link, but unfortunately reddit will not allow me to post it in full because it violates terms, so you'll have to click on it to see it!
‘It’s a community safety issue’: Kamloops mom looks to challenge city ruling on dog attack
https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloops/590219/Its-a-community-safety-issue-Kamloops-mom-looks-to-challenge-city-ruling-on-dog-attack
A little more information but the story is the same, I'll keep updating if I see more on this horrible vicious mauling, as it comes in, hopefully the right thing is done in the end.
I first thought “WTF is a doll test”. I had a guess but it was so stupid I thought “that can’t be it”… I was wrong.
From ChatGPT:
A “doll test” is an informal behavioral assessment tool sometimes used by animal behaviorists, shelters, or trainers to help evaluate whether a dog that has shown aggression toward people might be safely rehabilitated. It is not a standardized or scientifically validated test, but rather a screening exercise used alongside professional observation.
What the Doll Test Is
The test uses a realistic human-like doll (often child-sized) to simulate human movement and presence without putting a real person at risk. The dog’s reactions are observed under controlled conditions.
How the Test Is Conducted
While procedures vary, it typically involves:
Behaviors Evaluated
Observers look for:
Why It’s Used
Important Limitations
How Professionals Use It Properly
Reputable evaluators combine the doll test with:
What the Results Typically Indicate
Bottom Line
The doll test is a risk-management tool, not a diagnostic verdict. When used responsibly, it helps professionals decide whether further rehabilitation efforts are reasonable, but it cannot reliably predict future behavior on its own.
If you’d like, I can also explain:
I ASKED FOR REHABILITATION DATA. SEE FIRST REPLY TO THIS.
I asked for the rehabilitation rate by aggression type. I won’t post them all here but here’s the important ones.
Categories
Aggression Type Typical Cause Approx. Rehab Success Key Determinants
Results
Human-directed predatory aggression Rare, instinctive <20% Often considered non-rehabilitatable
Idiopathic / rage syndrome Neurologic/genetic <10–20% Poor medication response
Uninhibited repeated biting (Level 4–6) Severe pathology Very low Public-safety constraints