End Reasons
An ‘end reason’ is the reason or reasons that a dog has retired, been transferred or released from your program and is being adopted or provided to another organization.
Storing these reasons are required because they are used for data summaries to identify which areas of health, behavior or other categories may be best to focus on for improvement in success rates and/or longer working times for graduated dogs.
These reasons listed below are reasons pertinent to guide and service dogs. Other types of working dogs will have different items on their list as well as some that are in common.
You can also click here to download a spreadsheet of End Reasons which includes 2 tabs – one tab lists reasons by Behavior Checklist items and the other mimics the table below.
List of End Reasons by Category
(Most common reasons are in Red)
Age
- Age related retirement
- Age returned dog too old to reuse
Appearance
Conformation Gait
Mismark
Too large
Too small
Behavior
Adaptability (attachment kennels poorly, separation anxiety)
Aggression when challenges or protective of space
Arousal (activated by stress)
Arousal (excitable, distraction, high energy, figety, barks, socially inappropriate with dogs)
Barks excessively
Behavior problem unspecified
Chase, movement excites
Dog fear or aggression
Eliminates while working
Environmental Soundness (noise, traffic, objects, surfaces, riding)
Focus lacking -mentally scattered due to stress
Inhibited/avoidant when stressed
Initiative or drive lacking
Kinesthetic (body or harness sensitivity, body handling)
Manners (destructive, eliminates in house)
Manners (jumps on people, mouths, humps)
Manners (steals food)
Poor return to productive state
Relationship (Handler/Dog team, unwilling)
Resource Guarding (people or dogs)
Stair concern, Elevated surfaces
Stranger fear or aggression
Thunderstorm Phobia
Breed/whelp
Fertility poor
Genetic risk retired breeder
Had target number of litters
Mothering skills poor
Success rate poor for puppies
Whelping Issues
Client
Client health problem
Client improper care of dog
Client non-compliance
Client-dog relationship
Died while still actively working
Graduate Caused Temp/work problem
Lost Contact with Client
Dog Health
- Accidental or sudden death
- Blood/Lymph
- Cancer
- Congenital Deformity
- Digestive
- Elbows
- Endocrine
- Genotype test result risk
- Health Unspecified (for older data)
- Heart problem
- Hip dysplasia
- Mishap accident dog unusable
- Musculoskeletal Not hip or elbow
- Neonatal loss/Died after day 0 up to wean
- Neurologic (not seizure/tremor)
- Ophthalmologic
- Otitis Ear Infections
- Respiratory
- Seizures Tremors
- Skin allergy
- Stillborn/Died Day 0
- Urogenital
Performance
- Accuracy of work
- Deficient/change in client’s requirements for using a dog
- Incompatibility of match
- Lifestyle/environmental change for client
Surplus
- Surplus dog not used
Transfer
- Breeding agreement transfer to organization or breeder
Unknown
- Reason unknown