Table 3.

Causes of death classified by pathophysiologic processes in our data

Pathophysiologic Process	All Dogs	%	Purebreds	%	Mixed Breeds	%	Males	%	Females	%	Intact	%	Gonadectomized	%	Small	%	Medium	%	Large	%	Giant	%	MI	%	MG	%	FI	%	FG	%
cardiovascular	14	1.75	8	1.60	5	1.90	7	1.76	7	1.75	0	0.00	14	2.13	4	2.92	3	2.68	0	0.00	1	2.86	0	0.00	7	2.19	0	0.00	7	2.06
congenital	12	1.50	9	1.80	2	0.76	9	2.26	3	0.75	6	4.29	6	0.91	3	2.19	1	0.89	5	2.43	0	0.00	4	5.06	5	1.57	2	3.28	1	0.29
degenerative	233	29.13	154	30.74	74	28.14	116	29.15	116	29.00	25	17.86	207	31.46	47	34.31	36	32.14	58	28.16	11	31.43	15	18.99	101	31.66	10	16.39	106	31.27
infectious/inflammatory	86	10.75	59	11.78	23	8.75	41	10.30	45	11.25	26	18.57	60	9.12	14	10.22	15	13.39	24	11.65	5	14.29	14	17.72	27	8.46	12	19.67	33	9.73
metabolic	21	2.63	13	2.59	7	2.66	13	3.27	8	2.00	4	2.86	17	2.58	6	4.38	3	2.68	2	0.97	0	0.00	3	3.80	10	3.13	1	1.64	7	2.06
neoplastic	364	45.50	225	44.91	126	47.91	176	44.22	187	46.75	42	30.00	321	48.78	50	36.50	43	38.39	109	52.91	17	48.57	28	35.44	148	46.39	14	22.95	173	51.03
toxic	10	1.25	5	1.00	5	1.90	5	1.26	5	1.25	4	2.86	6	0.91	2	1.46	2	1.79	1	0.49	0	0.00	2	2.53	3	0.94	2	3.28	3	0.88
traumatic	60	7.50	28	5.59	21	7.98	31	7.79	29	7.25	33	23.57	27	4.10	11	8.03	9	8.04	7	3.40	1	2.86	13	16.46	18	5.64	20	32.79	9	2.65
unclassified	735		493		214		371		358		132		597		157		129		169		29		68		303		64		294