I beleive every breeder intentially or not should be required to microchip the dogs they produced.
Sorry breeders, most do this anyways now.
The humane society does this service on a sliding scale from 20-40 bucks.
Here if your dogs is taken to animal control it is microchipped if not already and before claiming your animal it must have current information registered to the owner.
If you can't afford to microchip you can't afford a pet.
Personally I prefer the idea of micrchips over tags required in a license fee I have to pay $65for stinking dollars a year fir each of my dogs already! We don't use the city tags they're ugly too big and not useful enough. I do have tags on the d-ring of all harnesses but really a microchip is much more effecrive if scanned...the issue is requiring all found animals be scanned abd getting vets to scan regularly.
In my county if you find a dog and do not report it as a foubd animal to animal control you can be fined, you no longer have to take the animal into animal controk IF you report it and can prove you had it scanned for a chip. |