Table 5 Loss to follow up between completion of the ‘About my puppy’ and the ‘two-year’ questionnaires
From: 'Generation Pup' – protocol for a longitudinal study of dog behaviour and health
Timepoints (numberof dogs | Number of dogs leaving the study (% of dogs leaving between these timepoints, based on the denominator of thenumber of dogs who have, or would have, reached the age of the upper timepoint) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lack of time | Dog died / euthanised | Dog rehomed orsurrendered to ananimal rehomingorganization | Would rather not say/ no information given | Othera | Total number of dogsleaving the studybetween timepoints.(% of dogs) | |
AMP-16w | 19 (29.2) | 3 (4.6) | 7 (10.8) | 30 (46.2) | 6 (9.2) | 65 / 3051 (2.1) |
16w-6mb | 32 (41.6) | 6 (7.8) | 6 (7.8) | 30 (39.0) | 3 (3.9) | 77 / 3010 (2.6) |
6 m–7 m | 11 (29.7) | 3 (8.1) | 13 (35.1) | 10 (27.0) | 0 (0.0) | 37 / 2753 (1.3) |
7 m–9 m | 10 (45.5) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (18.2) | 7 (31.8) | 1 (4.5) | 22 / 2400 (0.9) |
9 m–12 m | 7 (23.3) | 3 (10.0) | 7 (23.3) | 12 (40.0) | 1 (3.3) | 30 / 2065 (1.4) |
12 m–15 m | 17 (43.6) | 4 (10.3) | 2 (5.1) | 14 (35.9) | 2 (5.1) | 39 / 1830 (2.1) |
15 m–18 m | 6 (33.3) | 4 (22.2) | 3 (16.7) | 3 (16.7) | 2 (11.1) | 18 / 1521 (1.2) |
18 m-2y | 1 (33.3) | 1 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 / 721 (0.4) |
TOTAL | 97 (34.5) | 24 (8.5) | 42 (14.9) | 104 (37.0) | 14 (5.0) | 281 |