Dog bite injury is one important public health concern, especially in endemic rabies areas such as Asia. The negative impacts of a dog bite include rabies virus inoculation, wound infection, psychological problems, or other somatic disabilities. Thailand is one of the endemic rabies countries, and the canine population, which is rabid mammals, still circulates in the community. The perception of the rabies prevention program is necessary and reflects the success of the prevention campaign in communities. The objective of this study was to access the perception of victim practices after the dog bite and their perception of negative impacts to victims. The cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2015 to December 2016. Twenty-one participants whom Participatory One Health Disease Detection (PODD) volunteers were invited into the study. We created the perception’s ranking table and keyword cards for participation. The victims ordered the keyword card and discussed their ordering. The ranking and discussing data were collected and analyzed by the Kendall coefficient of concordance. Only nine participants (42.86%) knew or were accustomed to the details of the dog bite prevention campaign. We significantly found concordance in both topics; the effect of the bite that victims mostly concerned about was rabies virus infection (mean rank = 1.64, Kendall’s W = 0.63, p < 0.05), and the foremost priority that they practice after the bite was wound washing with clean water (mean rank = 1.45, Kendall’s W = 0.51, p < 0.05). We suggested that knowledge of the rabies prevention program and the practical knowledge of victims after the bite was approximated trends and novel implements for the dog bite prevention campaign advertising to the community should re-establishing.

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