Initial Survey

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Welcome and thank you for volunteering to participate in the Animal Ownership Interaction Study.

Your answers will provide invaluable data that will help save millions of dogs.

DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED TO PARTICIPATE WITH THE CENTER FOR CANINE BEHAVIOR STUDIES.

UNREGISTERED PARTICIPANTS’ SURVEY DATA WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN STUDY ANALYSIS.

REGISTER AT: WWW.CENTERFORCANINEBEHAVIORSTUDIES.ORG

AFTER REGISTERING, YOU MUST ACCESS THIS SURVEY THROUGH YOUR MEMEBERS AREA.

Please read this before you start answering questions.

In order to maintain your anonymity, you are not required to provide an email in this survey. To maintain anonymity, you cannot stop, save, and return to complete the survey. Maintaining anonymity requires you to complete the survey in its entirety and then on the last page click “Submit” to save all your answers.

Before starting to answer questions, you may review all survey questions by simply clicking “Next Page” on the bottom of each page to proceed through the survey; you may also click “previous page” to go back.

The survey will remain open and active as long as it remains in an open browser. Your answers are saved only after clicking “Submit” on the last page of the survey.

You are not required to answer all of the questions. However, in order for the survey data to be meaningful and valuable, answering certain survey questions is REQUIRED.

Required questions to be answered are identified as (Required). You survey will not be accepted for submission until all (Required) questions are answered.

After submitting your completed survey, every six months the Center for Canine Behavior Studies will send you an email to ask you to re-take a shorter version of the survey and on your CCBS membership page you will be provided a hyperlink to take the 6-month survey.

The shortened 6-month surveys will not require completing PART 3: Ten Item Personality Inventory and PART 4: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ).

You have selected an option that triggers this survey to end right now.

To save your responses and end the survey, click the 'End Survey' button below. If you have selected the wrong option by accident and/or wish to return to the survey, click the 'Return and Edit Response' button.