Additional file 1 of Behavioural susceptibility to environmental influences in obesity– evidence from a companion animal model

Additional file 1. Owners tend to underestimate BCS of their dogs. Bubble chart with regression shows vet-reported BCS (vet BCS) against owner-reported BCS (Owner BCS) in 618 dogs. Blue line represents the line of best fit with 95% confidence intervals shown in the shaded grey area. Red line represents a correlation of 1 where Owner BCS is equal to vet BCS. Dots correspond to datapoints, where bigger size represents greater number of subjects. Owner-reported BCS (mean ± sd) was 4.96 ± 0.8 while vet BCS was 5.27 ± 0.95. This cohort however had very few overweight animals, therefore under-scoring of BCS by the owners is likely underrepresented in comparison to a true population with higher adiposity variability.