In short yes!
In Thailand, pet dogs are legally required to be vaccinated against rabies, I suspect by your post, you haven't done this?
You would have to be sure that your pets had never been in contact with potentially infected animals.
As I said earlier the most common way to get infected in Thailand is not from stray dogs but cute little puppies (and of course cats) - if you have pts that roam etc you will still be picking them up and cuddling tem which is the easiest way of getting infected..
ALL mammals can transmit rabies to humans - in Thailand dogs and cats are the main sources - it coulsd also come from monkeys or bats - there has been a bat case recently.
This is just a quick post to point out to those unaware, that many of Thailand's top medical specialists practice at more than one hospital. So if you need a good doctor for a specialty you will find someone here who can give you a name(s). But just because Dr. X practices at Bumrungrad or Bangkok Hospital or BNH doesn't necessarily mean you need to go there (and pay a lot). With a little searching online you may well find the same doctor works at a government hospital or one of the lesser-known private or quasi-private hospitals (e.g. much less expensive but same treatment). This is not always the case, but it often is.
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