“In Santa Cruz or La Laguna it is estimated that more than 80% of the dogs are registered, however, in other more rural places this could drop to 50%," they said. The canine census registered in Zoocan for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro) shows that there are 296,656 dogs, although the number not registered is difficult to know accurately because it depends on the location. Another surprising fact is that there are more vets (588) than paediatricians (160) in the province. There are 592,322 dogs with microchips in the Canary Islands, of which 101,043 are hunting dogs and 27,833 potentially dangerous breeds (PPP) 234,338 of these are in Tenerife, of which 45,535 are hunting dogs and 11,986 (PPP).Īll these dogs are registered by 141,082 owners on the island and is almost the same number as there are children in Tenerife. ![]() New research shows that there is a registered dog (not all are) in Tenerife for every child aged from newborn to 14 years old, a trend that occurs in all the 31 municipalities of the island, and something that has increased even more after the pandemic in the Canary Islands.
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