[Animals] Registrations of dogs and cats in the National Pet Registry exceeded two million

[FNX Magokiler]

Data from the Subsecretariat for Regional and Administrative Development (Subdere) showed that to date there are 2,036,224 animals officially registered in the National Pet Registry. There are 1,548,857 dogs and 487,367 legally registered cats throughout the country, with the Metropolitan Region having the highest concentration of both species.

A study by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Catholic University and the Subdere estimated that in Chile there are more than 12 million dogs and cats with owners and 4 million without them, reported El Mercurio.

Among the total number of dogs, there are more than 24,000 classified as potentially dangerous (PPP) that represent 1.22% of the global registry, the highest proportion since its implementation; of them, there are around 6 thousand in the capital and 3.4 thousand in the Valparaíso Region.

As for cats, in all regions their presence is less than that of dogs.

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BREEDS
Despite the fact that the Law for the Responsible Ownership of Pets and Companion Animals establishes Bullmastiffs as potentially dangerous dog breeds; Dobermans; Argentine Dogo; Brazilian Row; Canary Dam; Mallorquin Dam; Rottweiler and Tosa Inu, different experts affirm that the risk attitude that a dog can present is mainly due to the care of the owners.

Fernando Mardones, a veterinarian at the Catholic University, stated that although "there are predisposing breeds", "every animal raised under conditions of well-being, care and understanding will be sociable and docile".

"The condition of the dog in its domestication is that it be docile and sociable, but when we do not understand the characteristics of certain breeds, which have a more developed instinct, and we do not understand how this behavior is, clearly we are going to have problems," he specified. .

 

 

In addition, he stated that "every day we have records of animal bites, with very high rates that vary in different communes of the country," which "has to do with the fact that we often do not understand the behavior of different breeds or animals." According to him, "that requires an additional component" in care.

Marcela Pérez de Tudela, representative of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association in Chile (Wsava), pointed out that "the problem is not in the dogs, but in the keepers." This, since "the caretaker has to be responsible if he has an animal that has a potential for aggression."

"Dogs can understand 15 consecutive commands, like a one-and-a-half-year-old, but that depends on who guides them. I think it's very important when they have a potentially aggressive dog that the caregiver is responsible with their pet, so don't let's blame the animals," he said.

RECOMMEND ADVICE WITH ETHOLOGISTS
The experts called for people to seek advice from ethologists, experts focused on animal behavior, the equivalent of psychologists for people if they face a dog with these characteristics.

Owners of dogs with these characteristics should "get advice from a professional, an ethologist; in addition to taking it out many times a day, give it the correct diet and not be guided by what is written if it does not have a scientific basis," Pérez de Tudela recommended.

 

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