The questions on the following sections are designed to allow you to describe how your dog has been behaving in the recent past. Studies have shown that most of these questions can be grouped or condensed into a set of thirteen major behavioral or factors that describe most of the variation in canine temperament, and which are relatively  consistent across dogs of different sexes, breeds, and ages:

1.  Stranger-directed aggression
2.  Owner-directed aggression
3.  Dog-directed aggression
4.  Trainability
5.  Chasing
6.  Stranger-directed fear
7.  Nonsocial fear
8.  Dog-directed fear
9.  Separation-related behavior
10. Touch sensitivity
11. Excitability
12. Attachment or attention-seeking
12. Energy