Additional file 5 of Behavioural susceptibility to environmental influences in obesity– evidence from a companion animal model

Additional file 5. Dogs in higher Food Motivation Score tertiles tend to have significantly higher BCS and are subject to significantly higher Owner Control Score and Owner Intervention Score but significantly lower Restriction of Human Food Score. No significant difference in Exercise Score exists between Food Motivation Score tertile groups. Box and Whisker Plot of raw data for BCS by Food Motivation tertile is shown (A), where midline is the median, box illustrates 1 st and 3rd quartile, lines show minimum and maximum value and dots represent outliers. Violin Plots of raw data by Food Motivation tertiles subgroups are shown for Food Motivation Score (B), Age (C), Owner Control Score (D), Owner Intervention Score (E), Restriction of Human Food Score (F) and Exercise Score (G). Black dot and line represent mean and standard deviation; white dot represents median; p-values at the top show significance level between Food Motivation Score tertile groups and at the bottom is described mean ± standard deviation for each group. Dogs were excluded due to owner reported BCS < 4 or unreported (n = 3,616) and due to age < 1 or > 19 (n = 699), leaving 14,960 answers to analyse. There were 7,534 females (70% neutered) and 7,426 males (66% neutered). Two hundred and forty-four breeds registered at the British Kennel Club, “other pure breeds” and crossbreeds were included. Out of these, 70 breeds contained 10 or more individuals. Mean and standard deviation for age was 5.41 ± 3.32 years.