Table 6 The numbers and percentages of dog owners stratified by the types of foods they reported to have given to their working farm dogs during a 6–month period. Data were collected from 126 working farm dog owners participating in TeamMate. Note that percentages do not add up to 100% because many owners fed more than one type of food
Food fed to dogs | Owners | % (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|
Meat | 107 | 85 (79–91) |
Source | ||
Sourced on farm | 105 | 83 (77–90) |
Purchased | 16 | 13 (7–19) |
Treatment | ||
Frozen | 100 | 79 (72–86) |
Fresh | 27 | 21 (14–28) |
Offal | 28 | 22 (15–29) |
Cooked | 25 | 20 (13–27) |
Fresh | 1 | 1(0–2) |
Commercial dog food | 113 | 90 (84–95) |
Dry dog food | 111 | 88 (82–94) |
Wet dog food | 54 | 43 (34–51) |
Other commercial food | 27 | 21 (14–29) |
Not recorded | 8 | 6 (2–11) |