Thank you for your review. We have expanded the discussion to address these points, however due to another reviewer saying the paper was already too long, we have kept this brief. A section detailing relevance to practitioners has been added to lines 545-551.
Specific points requiring attention: L18-20 „Whether dogs showed SRBs or not changed considerably over the months of the study, and one in ten dogs were found to have developed new SRBs in October, that they didn’t show before the pandemic” Overall, the percentage of dogs showing SRBs decreased during the study, and this should be clarified in the sentence above.