RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS OF THE 28th ECVIM-CA CONGRESS

A high correlation was found between IBW and each of the three measuring positions. The correlation coefficients between IBW and body length measured at A, B and C were 0.945, 0.932 and 0.910, respectively. We used position A as the body length, since the highest correlation coefficient was found between the position A and IBW. The regression express wasy=0.009x2‐0.359x+5.162. Using the regression equation for this measurement position, we can estimate the IBW of a dog from its body length. For example, the IBW of a dog with a body length of 40cm would be 5.2kg. If this dog's current BW is 6.0kg, it is 1.15 times the IBW.This gives us a BCS of 4.When this method was tried by several clinical veterinarians, they replied that this method was identical or well matched to result of the conventional BCS assessment.