Dog obesity: Owner attitudes and behaviour

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-340

  Bland, I M ^a   Guthrie Jones, A ^a   Taylor, R D ^a   Hill, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dogs; Exercise; Obesity; Owners' attitudes; Plane of nutrition; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EATING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VICTORIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 70350593898     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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