Table 8.

Spearman Rank correlation coefficients between behaviours recorded in kennel and behaviours exhibited during the ‘exploration of room test’ in the behaviour assessment of shelter dogs (n = 38) within the emotional domains of arousal, fear, and anxiety.

Arousal	Title	Fear	Title	Anxiety	Title
Barking	0.40	Ears Back	0.59	Ears back	0.59
Diverting Gaze	0.35	Lip Licking	−0.12	Fast tail	0.38
High Tail	0.69	Lowered Body	0.33	High tail	0.59
Jumping up	0.45	Lowered head	0.46	Jumping	0.28
Jump off	0.33	Shiver	0.52	Licking	0.34
Licking	0.35	Stiff tail	0.39	Medium tail	0.36
Lip licking	0.27	Tail Low	0.25	Pacing	0.44
Medium Tail	0.36	Tail tucked	0.25	Panting	0.46
Pacing	0.25	Tense Body	0.30	Stiff tail	0.39
Panting	0.46	Weight back	0.42	Tense body	0.36
Weight forward	0.33			Weight back	0.49
Whining	−0.50

p < 0.01, p < 0.05.