Table 1

Demographic data included in the telephone questionnaire

Questions about the owner
Questions about the dog

Name
Name and registration number
Address
Breed
County
Sex
Number of adults in the household (≥18 years)
Date of birth
Age of each adult
Neuter status
- Neutered or intact, age at neutering if neutered
Number of adults in the household
Age when owner got possession of the dog
Age of each child
Type of place where the dog was bought
- Breeder, owner is also the breeder, friend, other
Employment/Retired/Other type
Price paid for the dog
Purpose of dog ownership
- Company, dog exhibitions, breeding, hunting, obedience, tracking, searching on humans, guarding, herding, other
Weight of the dog
Number of dogs in the household
Subjective judgement of body condition by dog owner
-normal, thinner or heavier than normal
Other animals in the household
- Dogs, cats, other animals and numbers
Size of pure-bred dog compared to standard
- small, normal, large

Present disease of the dog
- Yes/no, and diseases as open questions

Previous disease of the dog
- Yes/no, and diseases as open questions

Sallander et al. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2001 42:71   doi:10.1186/1751-0147-42-71