Table 3.

The behaviour of a subset of dogs (n = 34) exposed to lavender, music, DAP or a control treatment, during the 3 h treatment period on 5 consecutive days. For square root (√) transformed parameters, back transformed values are also reported in parentheses. Means that do not share a superscript letter are significantly different (p < 0.05) by Tukey’s test.

Behaviour	Control	Music	Lavender	DAP	SED	F-Value (d.f. 3,17)	p-Value
Activity
Lie down total, % of time	47.8	62.2	58.0	61.2	5.769	0.93	0.45
Lie down-head down, % of time	28.9	51.8	43.1	34.5	6.017	2.91	0.07
Lie down-head up, √ % of time	4.12 ab	3.04 b	3.61 b	5.09 a	0.437	4.79	0.01
	(17.0)	(9.24)	(13.0)	(25.9)
Stand, % of time	34.3	30.1	31.1	26.2	4.302	0.48	0.70
Walk, √ % of time	2.69	2.12	2.27	2.26	0.248	0.67	0.58
	(7.23)	(4.49)	(5.15)	(5.10)
Standing exit door, √ % of time	2.10 a	0.82 b	0.65 b	0.87 b	0.240	6.03	0.005
	(4.41)	(0.67)	(0.42)	(0.76)
Sit, √ % of time	1.43	0.52	1.21	1.53	0.377	1.23	0.33
	(2.04)	(0.27)	(1.46)	(2.34)
Vocalisation
Vocalisation, % of time	7.90 a	0.27 b	1.40 b	3.71 b	1.427	12.2	< 0.001
Other behaviours
Pant, √ % of time	1.07 a	0.02 b	0.30 ab	0.33 ab	0.426	4.01	0.03
	(1.14)	(0.0004)	(0.09)	(0.11)
Body shake, √ events per hour	2.82	3.56	4.42	6.99	2.481	2.64	0.08
	(7.95)	(12.7)	(19.5)	(48.9)
Sniff ground, √ % of time	0.29	0.19	0.22	0.44	0.144	1.25	0.32
	(0.08)	(0.04)	(0.05)	(0.19)
Groom, √ % of time	0.41	0.34	0.54	0.82	0.271	2.80	0.07
	(0.17)	(0.12)	(0.29)	(0.67)
Tail position and movement
Tail low, % of time	60.2	71.6	60.2	53.8	5.353	1.26	0.32
Tail medium/high, % of time	16.3	16.1	21.1	14.4	3.828	0.26	0.86
Tail movement, % of time	11.0 a	1.38 b	6.82 ab	6.63 ab	2.164	3.37	0.04
Tail still, % of time	78.3	90.6	86.5	81.2	3.104	3.17	0.05
Location in kennel
Front, % of time	31.0	27.2	22.6	16.6	6.623	0.66	0.59
Back, % of time	31.9	31.0	31.4	34.9	7.497	0.07	0.98
Crate, % of time	19.5	26.9	34.5	37.7	8.445	1.31	0.31
Middle, √ % of time	2.15	2.41	1.46	1.41	0.504	1.13	0.37
	(4.62)	(5.80)	(2.13)	(1.99)