Adverse health events and recommended health research priorities in agility dogs as reported by dog owners.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand relative frequency of adverse health events, defined as injuries or infectious diseases, in dogs participating in agility and to determine health research priorities of agility dog owners.

Procedures

An internet-based questionnaire distributed to agility dog owners included items related to experiences with infectious diseases and injuries in agility dogs, reasons for retirement of dogs from competition, and ranking of health research priorities. Frequencies of infectious diseases in US geographic regions were compared with Chi-square tests. Research priority rankings were determined as median and interquartile range (IQR) for each topic. Rank-based tests (Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney) compared rankings between participants in different agility org

SUBMITTER: Sellon DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040666 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature