Kinshasa - Post Report Question and Answers

Quality pet care available (vets & kennels)?

There are at least two vets, who are fine. No kennels I am aware of. Getting the pets in and out of the country has not been especially problematic. - Nov 2012


There are a few vets, but pet care is not a priority. There is a good Belgian vet, but the conditions in the clinic are not clean and the supplies are limited. - Feb 2012


Unreliable. - Nov 2011


I believe there were very few. Traveling with pets in/out of Kinshasa is terrible at best. - Jan 2011


The vet makes house calls and seems to do the right things. Our dog was bitten and injured, and the vet got him fit as a fiddle. - Oct 2010


Pet care is pretty good, for a Third World country. One vet makes house calls. - Jan 2009


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