Table 5.

Prediction of supportive attitudes towards cat and dog confinement by pet owners’ concerns about wildlife and pets’ QoL, perception of others’ attitudes and pet–owner bond, separately for dogs and cats.

	Supportive Attitudes Towards Cat Confinement Among Cat Owners (n = 1346)	Supportive Attitudes Towards Dog Confinement Among Dog Owners (n = 1529)
Concerns over confinement impact on pet’s QoL	−0.59 (−0.62, −0.54)	−0.40 (−0.44, −0.36)
Concerns about wildlife predation by pet	0.21 (0.15, 0.26)	0.13 (0.08, 0.18)
Perception of others’ attitudes towards pet confinement	0.05 (−0.01, 0.10)	0.18 (0.12, 0.23)
Pet–owner bond	0.17 (0.08, 0.25)	0.14 (0.05, 0.22)
Adjusted R2	0.48	0.33

Note: Cell entries are unstandardized estimates (b) from two multivariable linear regression analyses (separately for dogs and cats), with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses; coefficients are controlled for gender, property type, number of pets owned, age, pet ownership status and feral/stray cats/dogs in the neighborhood; results for controlled variables are not presented; coefficients in bold are statistically significant at 0.05 level; Abbreviations: QoL: Quality of Life.