I will let Mary respond to her contracts...
All chips can be updated with the new name etc...mandatory to do. If I sell my dog to someone else and it ends up in shelter with only my name on...I pay the fine...It was my fault for not updating the information...just like cars.
You are incorrect about rescues. There are breed only rescues and there are rescues that handle the mutts (your words) and every animal would have a chip that has the breeder/owner record on file.
Look, now of us have answers but clearly you are only shooting down idea's without thinking how we can change what is going on in this word.
Trust me, if breeders/owners were dumping over 5 MILLLION animals in the countryside to get out of the fines...they would be discovered ....and then could be charged with animal cruelty.
If you have watched any of the video's on puppymills and volume breeders you would understand why one system isn't perfect but we have no system right now.
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Originally Posted by Cha Cha  If you have contracts that states such, that is great, I commend you for that! That IS how it should be. Imposing that is another story. How many law suits could you go through before you simply could not enforce that contract any longer due to the cost involved? Again, if my dog that I purchase and agree to care for by making the purchase, ends up in a shelter and I am the one that defaults on that contract, you are saying that you pay the fee? Doesn't make any sense. What if I purchase one of your dogs, and I lose contact with you over the years? I move, or I get sick and my relatives know nothing about a contract and your dog changes hands and eventually ends up in a shelter? You pay a fine? That's rediculous. Also, a microchip only identifies the current owner at the time of microchipping. (or does it give the life history of the dog). What if the dog changes hands (against the contract) and never has the number changed at a registery? How do you trace that? I know that rescues deal primarly with pure bred dogs of their chosen breed. What about the mutts? The dumped dogs. Our shelter has very few pure bred dogs. Who pays for their being there? How do you identify thier "breeder?" Obviously the person bringing it in is not going to own up to ownership.
Ok, so some of you are also imposing mandatory microchipping so their dogs can be traced. Honestly? Do you know what will happen to dogs if you make mandatory microchipping a law, and you also impose stiff fines if the microchipped dog ends up in a shelter? People will take them to the country, shoot them, and cut out that microchip so it cannot be traced to avoid paying any fees. Sounds drastic? Yes it does, but then again, people dump their dogs in the country to starve and fend for themselves anyways. |