An Evaluation of a Behaviour Assessment to Determine the Suitability of Shelter Dogs for Rehoming

Table 3

The effects of health problems, gender, neutered status, origin, faeces and urine from the previous dog test and defaecation and urination during the test on the number of dogs in the pass, fail and behaviour modification program (BMP) categories of the first test.

	Test outcome (n)
Variable	Fail	Pass	BMP	%Failure	Probability
Health problem
Yes	29	43	10	35%	0.72
No	53	87	14	34%
Gender
Male	42	63	16	35%	0.25
Female	40	67	8	35%
Neutered
Yes	16	35	6	28%	0.46
No	66	95	18	37%
Origin
Pound	11	22	5	29%	0.92
Surrendered	37	57	9	36%
Stray	25	39	8	35%
Ambulance	5	9	2	31%
Inspectorate	4	3	0	57%
Faeces from previous dog
Absent	28	39	8	37%	0.04
One	30	35	6	42%
Two	17	26	2	38%
Three or more	7	30	8	16%
Urine from previous dog
Present	50	93	7	33%	0.19
Absent	32	37	16	38%
Defaecation during test
Yes	54	91	17	33%	0.50
No	28	39	8	37%
Urination during test
Yes	50	93	17	31%	0.56
No	32	37	7	42%