We agree this was completely missed from the Discussion. It wasn’t intentional, we were just overly focussed on the results that related to the research hypothesis. Discussion around this has been added now to lines 524-544.
I think that according to the statistics, the strongest finding is that dogs who showed SRB in February or May had increased odds of having SRB during the subsequent measures which is not surprising. What is surprising though is that 55.7% of the dogs who were reported to show SRB in February (before the pandemic) were clear in October which is good news. However, the authors do not focus on this result and do not explain this finding.