Table 5.

Stage 3—sample demographic characteristics from veterinary clients recruited through a small animal general veterinary hospital and a large academic hospital with specialty services who reported ownership of a healthy dog or cat and provided responses to an online research protocol including the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) adapted for use with pets

	Veterinary clients with a healthy companion animal (n = 961)
Clients
Age (median, min‐max)	45‐54 (18‐24; 75+)
Race (N, %	914 (95%)
Sex (N, % female)	881 (92%)
Animals
Age (median, mix‐max)	7 (1‐15)
Species (N, %)
Dog	702 (73%)
Cat	259 (27%)
Recruitment location
General hospital	669 (70%)
Academic center	292 (30%)