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This study assessed the frequency, complexity, and spontaneous day-to-day variation of ventricular arrhythmias in clinically healthy, large-breed dogs using seven-day Holter monitoring. Thirty-one, apparently healthy dogs without any history of systemic illness and normal physical examination findings underwent continuous 7-day Holter monitoring. Two dogs were excluded due to the occurrence of significant systemic disease soon after enrolment. The results from 29 dogs showed that most dogs (86%) had fewer than twenty ventricular premature complexes (VPCs) per 24-hour period, with significant day-to-day variation (up to 93%) in 4 dogs with over twenty VPCs. Complex ventricular arrhythmias, such as ventricular couplets, triplets, and ventricular tachycardia, were rare. No correlation was found between age and VPC frequency (p\u2009=\u20090.409) in this population of predominantly older dogs. 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