Table 3.

Significance, odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) of the logistic regression between presence and absence of ticks and an array of significant tick risk factors

	Significance	Odds ratio	95 % CI
Breed type
Pastoral	0.009	1.809	1.162–2.817
Gundogs	0.026	1.619	1.060–2.471
Dog sex
Male neutered	< 0.0001	0.638	0.553–0.736
Female neutered	< 0.0001	0.570	0.494–0.659
Dog age
1 to 3 years	< 0.0001	1.400	1.184–1.655
3 to 6 years	0.001	1.331	1.128–1.571
6 to 10 years	0.036	1.202	1.012–1.427
Above 10 years	0.014	1.288	1.052–1.577

Hosmer-Lemeshow test: χ ² = 2.117, df = 8, P = 0.977