Body Condition Scores and Evaluation of Feeding Habits of Dogs and Cats at a Low Cost Veterinary Clinic and a General Practice

Table 3

Summary of cat demographic information from 86 cats enrolled from two veterinary clinics (absolute number or mean ± SD). Only breeds reported more than 5 times were included in the table.

Variable	General practice	Low cost clinic	value
	42	44	—
Age (yrs)			0.022
Sex			0.147
Male	16 (15 castrated)	19 (10 castrated)	—
Female	25 (24 spayed)	23 (18 spayed)	—
Breed
DSH/DLH	34	37	0.337
Body weight (kg)			0.267
Body condition score			0.023
Percent overweight	27/41 (66%)	19/43 (44%)	0.046

The scale is a 1–9 scale; DSH/DLH: domestic shorthair/domestic longhair.