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Sign In. TV Series — —. Tail-amputation has no reported success, and the problem can be so intractable, and distressing for the owners, that dogs are euthanased [7] , [12]. Indeed, all 32 dogs in Blackshaw et al. Several breeds are prone to compulsive tail-chasing, including Bull Terriers [12] , German Shepherds [6] and Anatolian sheepdogs [9]. However, the sample sizes of clinical studies to date have been too small to rule out high propensities in other breeds too, such as Jack Russells and West Highland White Terriers [12].
Breed differences could arise from environmental e. If the latter, the behaviour could have been artificially selected for, even indirectly if tail-chasing is linked with a desirable characteristic, as with many inherited defects [13].
Despite the general renown of the behaviour and its potential severity in clinical cases, little is known about tail-chasing in home contexts or when no clinical causes have been diagnosed.
For the first time, a large sample size is rapidly available and economically feasible. Furthermore, the videos reveal environments and contexts in which tail-chasing occurs, often together with audible and written responses of human observers Figure 1. The sidebar on the right also offers views links to related videos, showing a thumbnail of the video content, the video title, and the number of times the video has been viewed. Dogs that tail-chase very rarely are likely to be under-represented, as videographers would have to catch the behaviour at exactly the right place and time.
Conversely, dogs with clinical diagnoses may also be under-represented if owners are embarrassed but not if they wish to raise awareness. As with other survey methods, the use of video-sharing websites requires similar caution in generalizing conclusions beyond the sample population, because the populations are usually non-random and self-selecting to some extent.
However, data from video-sharing websites reflects directly observed behaviour rather than relying on respondents' descriptions , and data are unprompted by the researcher, so they are less likely to be biased towards the study purposes. The current study goes further, using a larger sample size, plus a control group to examine the characteristics of and responses to tail-chasing in domestic dogs.
I made no clinical diagnoses from the videos, but could broadly infer certain animal welfare implications from visible injuries and characteristics commonly associated with perseverative abnormal behaviours, including both frequent performance and persistence in the face of distraction.
The videos were continually but gradually shuffled by YouTube's confidential search algorithms. It is worth noting that in some cases, the uploader may neither have owned the dog, nor have taken the footage themselves.
The following details were recorded from the videos further details in Table S1 :. I structurally defined all the behaviours scored according to an ethogram Table S1 and S2 , and systematically categorized human comments after data collection using defined criteria Table 2. I compared tail-chasing videos against breed-matched control non-tail-chasing videos, to investigate associations between tail-chasing and tail morphology, such as whether docked tails were more or less frequently seen in tail-chasing versus control videos.
The control videos were also used to identify whether dogs were more frequently indoors, and whether a television, computer, radio or music was switched on when tail-chasing.
Breed- and age-matching was important because these factors affect the likelihood that dogs are taken outdoors and that their tails are docked. The first control video not yet scored for that breed was used in each case. Exclusion criteria were as before, but additionally, videos were excluded if the tail could not be clearly seen; if the control video included tail-chasing or spinning; or if the video seemed to involve animal cruelty, for ethical reasons e.
For example, only 46 videos had comments revealing the dog's tail-chasing frequency as well as having a potentially distracting event occurring during the video, so 35 of these videos were included in the reliability sample representing habitual, periodic and rare tail-chasing, in both perseverative difficult to distract and non-perseverative dogs. The order in which videos were re-watched was randomized. The other observer OHB; see Acknowledgements was an experienced observer of animal behaviour, and was blind to the hypotheses being tested.
He received five practice videos for which he could see my original scores, and he was given a detailed description of the scoring criteria for each variable Table S2 , but he received no other training. Intra- and inter-observer agreement was tested using Fleiss' Kappa statistics for binary variables, and Kendall's W for ordinal variables Minitab Only scores for panting behaviour failed to attain at least Moderate reliability, so results for that variable are not reported.
The observer reliability scores are shown in Table S3. Within the tail-chasing videos, I tested associations between specific tail-chasing behaviours and their predictors other behaviours, dog characteristics, and human responses using generalized linear mixed models glmmPQL and glmmML in R. I included breed as a random factor in every model to control for non-independence of similar dogs, and compared breed groups defined according to both the UK Kennel Club and genetic groupings found by Parker et al.
Breed was nested within breed group. Video-length was always included, because certain events e. For analyses of clinically relevant predictors, dogs with objects attached to their tails were excluded, because their tail-chasing was not necessarily ever a self-initiated behaviour.
I also used generalized linear mixed models, as before, to compare tail-chasing and control videos. I selected models using Akaike information criteria, and identified and thus avoided multicollinearity using inflated standard error terms.
No correction for multiple testing has been done here, because the risk of Type II errors, failing to report potentially significant results, is considered more serious in exploratory studies than that of Type I errors [24]. Of the uploaders of the tail-chasing videos, The mean s.
The mean tail-chasing video length was Associations between dog behaviour characteristics and context excluding dogs with objects attached to their tails are shown in Table 1. Perseverative dogs were more likely to tail-chase habitually and to collide with objects when tail-chasing, and they were less likely to show play behaviours than were other tail-chasing dogs Table 1.
Hair-loss from the tail or hind-quarters was seen in 1. When indoors, tail-chasing was less likely to include play behaviour than when outdoors, and with a screen switched on, tail-chasing dogs were less likely to bark but more likely to wag their tails Table 1. Problematic tail-chasing as indicated by the percentage of all tail-chasing videos that appeared perseverative or habitual per breed group was distributed widely across diverse Kennel Club breed groups Table 3.
The five dogs with visible hair-loss or injury to the tail or hindquarters comprised two German Shepherds, one Labrador-Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, one Labrador and one Parsons Jack Russell Terrier. While Human responses to tail-chasing are shown in Table 2. Viewers were 6. I've never seen a dog chase its tail so much. Maybe he enjoys the dizzyness?? In nine videos 2. Videos showing tail-chasing were approximately 6. Control and tail-chasing videos showed no significant differences in tail morphology, such as length, docking, or hair-type initial analyses had suggested that tails were longer in tail-chasing than control videos [26] , but this relationship proved not to be robust when other significant variables were included in the final statistical models.
The results here reveal new clinically relevant information that has been difficult to discover previously. Comments suggesting clinical explanations for habitual, perseverative tail-chasing were only seen on 2.
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