Care of Dogs and Attitudes of Dog Owners in Port-au-Prince, the Republic of Haiti

This article reports the first known study on dogs in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with 1,290 residents provided information on 1,804 dogs. More than 57.7% of homes kept dogs. Not all the dogs received vaccinations for rabies (41.6%), even though 28.2% of households had had a household member bitten by a dog. Although the ?owned? dog population […]