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Pit bull advocacy and policy study group
National Canine Research Council
Abbreviation
NCRC
Founded
2007
Founder
Karen Delise
Type
LLC
Focus
Producing studies and funding for pit bull advocacy, opposing breed-specific legislation, and casting doubt on opposing studies
Origins
Acquired by Jane Berkey from Karen Delise in 2007
Method
Publications, speakers, and conferences; also, funding for allied causes, groups, and websites through a separate action fund
Owner
Jane Berkey, Animal Farm Foundation
Key people
Karen Delise, Research Consultant
Parent organization
Animal Farm Foundation
Employees
≈13
Website
nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com
The National Canine Research Council (NCRC) is an animal advocacy group, originally started by Karen Delise, a veterinary technician.[1] It was later acquired by Jane Berkey, the owner of Animal Farm Foundation and registered as National Canine Research Council, LLC in 2007. Its current website describes itself as "A Research & Policy Think Tank". [2] The National Canine Research Council is a subsidiary of Animal Farm Foundation (AFF). [3] The AVMA has published National Canine Research Council articles and also receives funding from Animal Farm Foundation. The National Canine Research Council has an associated 501(c)(4) fund called the National Canine Research Council Action Fund, which can directly support lobbying and political activities.[4][5]
The National Canine Research Council is controversial as its publications are intended to bolster the pro-pit bull and anti-BSL (anti-breed-specific-legislation) policies of its parent company, Animal Farm Foundation. AFF says it is the other way around and its policies are informed by NCRC findings.[3]
Any discussion of pit bulls is controversial: Marie-Claude Malboeuf describes the pit bull lobby and the pit bull victims groups as fighting like cats and dogs in her La Presse article on the pit bull debate:
The two camps—pro and anti-pit bulls—don’t join battle merely in a war of studies. In 2010, pit bull promoters turned to hijacking website names resembling the [dogbite] victims site Dogsbite.org, buying similar domains (Dogsbite.com and Dogsbite.net). Brutal denunciations and innuendoes rain down in social media and blogs, each side displaying its contempt for the other camp. Jeff Borchardt, who saw his baby killed by pit bulls, saves Twitter screen shots about him saying [things like]: "He is like a fart in a storm. Nobody hears him or cares about him". Like other victims, he receives death threats. For her part, the founder of Dogsbite saves emails of a former leader of the lobby with a criminal past. He threatens [Dogsbite] with lawsuits, writing that he has sent her personal information to the FBI because she could be "a terrorist", and that her movement "fabricates attacks and deliberately sets pit bulls loose at large". On their side, pit bull owners report being brutally denounced and sometimes insulted when they are peacefully walking their dogs.[6]
^NCRC 2007.
^NCRC 2023.
^ abAbout AFF 2023.
^Action Fund 2017.
^Rudder & Main 2023.
^Pitbulls: Comme Chiens et Chats 2016.
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