Socio-economic status of dog owners in corporation of Chennai, Tamilnadu

A survey was carried out to study socio-economic status of 60 dog owners in Corporation of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Multistage random sampling procedure was adopted and relevant data were collected through personal interview with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. The result revealed that the Graduates (46.60 per cent) are more interested in dog rearing followed by Post graduates (16.60 per cent), Professionals (15.00 per cent), persons with Secondary level (13.30 per cent) and primary (8.30 per cent) level of education. The private employees are more interested in dog keeping followed by Students, Businessmen, Others (Retired persons, Job seekers etc.) and Government employees and the percentage among them is 45.00, 21.67, 16.67, 10.00 and 6.67 respectively. It is also found that 68.33 per cent of the dog owners have own individual house followed by rented apartment residents with 16.67 per cent, rented individual at 13.33 per cent and others 1.67 per cent.