Table 6.

Significant or trend level (p < 0.10) relationships between behaviours scored from the shelter behaviour assessment and responses in the post-adoption survey, analysed by ordinal logistic regression.

Behaviour	Test	Proportion Showing Behaviour in each Survey Category	Post Adoption	Coef	SE Coef	Z	p	Ratio	Lower	Upper
Friendly/social	1	0.91	Owners	2.50	1.45	1.73	0.05	12.21	0.71	208.88
	8	0.88	Children	2.68	1.20	2.23	0.02	14.65	1.39	154.41
	7	0.73	Stranger	1.06	0.55	1.94	0.05	2.89	0.99	8.46
	11	0.84	Existing dog	1.23	0.63	1.94	0.05	3.42	0.99	11.83
	11	0.60	Unfamiliar dog	1.42	0.63	2.27	0.02	4.14	1.21	14.16
Anxious	1	0.03	Owners	−1.43	0.79	−1.80	0.07	0.24	0.05	1.14
	11	0.07	Unfamiliar dog	−1.40	0.53	−2.62	0.01	0.25	0.09	0.70
	8	0.03	Unfamiliar child	2.38	1.02	2.34	0.02	10.83	1.47	79.46
	5	0.03	Run and freeze	−1.40	0.53	−2.62	0.00	0.25	0.09	0.70
Fearful	1	0.01	Owners	2.20	1.10	2.00	0.04	9.00	1.05	77.36
	8	0.01	Children	1.50	0.81	1.86	0.05	4.49	0.92	21.85