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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  I hope I can explain .... 
I think all animals should be required by law to be micro-chipped and a database is maintain for all the chips so when an animal comes into the shelter the dog has its chip read. Then the shelter fines the breeder x amount of $$$ for this dog winding up in a shelter. I would not want the breeder to get the dog back because they could easily kill the animal (so they don't pay hugh fines) instead of finding it a good home.
While I know this is tough, breeders have been getting us the taxpayers, rescue's etc to clean up their mess after they have made the profit off of the dogs. Also we have got to slow down the amount of animals breed every year. Millions of pets are euthanized because of profits from a greeder just pumping out dogs and could care less what home they go in.
If someone else has any idea's I would love to hear them. |
I love this idea so much. Right now so much propaganda is out there concerning microchiping. I know it's because certain groups do not want microchips to be accepted. Tattoos, which have been used in the past, never had a national database and were easy to alter, so dogs could not be tracked back to original breeders. It bothers me so much that millions of dogs are being put to sleep each year, I really never thought about the "money it's costing tax payers" but that is exactly the way we need to approach it to get lawmakers and the general public to do something.
I can't even imagine small breeders being against it, but I know large breeders, will fight this, it would cut down on their profits substantially.