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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020

Phenotypic Characteristics Associated with Shelter Dog Adoption in the United States.

Cassie J Cain, Kimberly A Woodruff, David R Smith

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 authors.

Cassie J CainDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Medicine, Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7172-2025
Kimberly A WoodruffDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA.
David R SmithDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Medicine, Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA.

Funding

Stanton Foundation 315094-184100-021000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify phenotypic characteristics of dogs predictive of adoption after being received into a shelter. Individual dog records for 2017 were requested from shelters in five states that received municipal funding and utilized electronic record keeping methods. Records from 17 shelters were merged into a dataset of 19,514 potentially adoptable dogs. A simple random sample of 4500 dogs was used for modelling. Variables describing coat length, estimated adult size, and skull type were imputed from breed phenotype. A Cox proportional hazard model with a random effect of shelter was developed for the outcome of adoption using manual forward variable selection. Significance for model inclusion was set at alpha = 0.05. Dogs from shelters in the North were more likely to be adopted than dogs from shelters in the South (hazard ratio (HR) = 3.13, 95% C.I. 1.27-7.67), as were dogs from Western shelters versus those from Southern shelters (HR = 3.81, 95% C.I. 1.43-10.14). The effect of estimated adult size, skull type, and age group on adoption were each modified by time in the shelter (

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adopter preferenceadoptionanimal sheltershelter dogsUnited States

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