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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I think this is a move in the right direction. I didn't realise we have many stray dogs as reported.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21345730

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

The problem with this is, how do you make sure that a dog is micro chipped? How?
You need a special machine to read the chip , even then it just gives you a number,, you then have to contact the microchip organisation and for a fee they'll tell you who the dog belongs to. All sounds good. Our Hooby is microchipped but by far and away the most useful identification device he has, is his tag with his name, our name and address and phone number on there. It means, as happened recently when Hooby got out of our garden, that a neighbour or passer-by can look at the tag and say , oh he's called Hooby and he lives just there. A microchip involves having to phone a dog rescue centre, the police or local authority to collect the dog, have the chip read, then contact the owner and then charge an enormous fee to return your dog. The police don't charge you a fee for returning your wallet if it's found, so why a dog? Anyway if you dig deep enough, you'll discover that the people behind the legislation are the people most likely to benefit from it.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6792

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Now we need dog licences introduced, and people prosecuted for dog fouling.

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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6792

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

I should point out that under normal circumstances we wouldn't have a dog but Hooby was due to be terminated in a dog rescue centre because he'd been there for a year and no one wanted him. He was trained to be a sniffer dog but failed the course apparently: Auntie Joan wanted him but already has several dogs, she begged us to have him because, well she didn't want to see him die so young, and we have a huge garden and we live in the country so win win for Hooby. I wouldn't be without him now but we won't have another dog after Hooby is no more.

How could they just kill him because no one wanted him.

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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I completely agree Rach

i'm not really a 'dog' person but when I came across a greyhound back in 1998 who was about to be shot in the head I actually gave the bastard who owned her money to take the dog off his hands

Although throughout her whole life one could see in her behaviour the damage from that short period with her former owner she made a wonderful pet and was absolutely fantastic with the cats - most unusual for a dog of her breed

Sadly she died just over a year ago and like you I have no intention of getting another dog - but if history ever repeated itself and I came across another animal under sentence of death I reckon I'd then probably do the same as the first time round Smile

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

It could have been worse - they might have trained him to be a guide dog Laughing

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R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

He's deffo been trained to sniff things out, Ron, when entering a room for the first time, he makes a systematic search of the floor area , then he's up on the sofa, satisfied that there are no bombs in the room that might disturb his sleep. He's the only dog I know that can open a tin of Quality Street. Most of all though he likes to round things up... let's call it seven he says perspicasiously.