Table 7.

Spearman’s correlation among conflict sign frequency and cat population variables

Variable	Flee	Chase	Stalk	Stare	Hiss	Twitch tail	Wail/scream
Number of cats	0.17	0.13	0.12	0.11	0.22	0.13	0.15
Indoor–outdoor	−0.01	−0.03	0.00	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.01
Declawed	−0.04	−0.05	−0.04	−0.02	0.01	−0.02	0.03
Female	0.05	0.00	−0.01	0.06	0.14	0.02	−0.06
Young (<1 year)	0.02	0.14	0.07	0.03	0.00	0.00	−0.01
Adult (1−7 years)	0.05	0.16	0.10	0.05	−0.04	−0.01	0.00
Mature (7−12 years)	0.01	−0.09	−0.04	−0.03	0.09	0.06	0.03
Senior (>12 years)	−0.03	−0.16	−0.09	−0.02	0.01	0.00	0.01
Chronic or debilitating health issue	0.03	−0.04	0.01	0.01	0.06	0.05	0.03
Living in house <6 months	−0.07	−0.07	−0.10	−0.05	−0.01	−0.02	0.02
Living in house 6 months to 2 years	0.06	0.12	0.08	0.04	−0.01	0.01	−0.01
Living in house >2 years	0.05	0.13	0.07	0.03	0.06	0.04	0.01
‘Active and curious’ score	−0.08	0.05	0.01	0.00	−0.11	−0.08	−0.06
‘Sedentary and shy’ score	0.09	0.00	0.02	0.06	0.10	0.10	0.06

The critical value is 0.061 for significance level of P <0.0025 used on a Bonferroni correction with 20 analyses per dependent variable. The values in bold meet this significance level