Posted on 09/28/2009 3:22:49 PM PDT by BGHater
All dogs in Britain will be fitted with microchips which contain their owner’s details, under cross party plans designed to track family pets.
Owners will be forced to install the microchip containing a barcode that can store their pet's name, breed, age and health along with their own address and phone number.
The barcode's details would then be stored on a national database which local councils could access in a bid to easily identify an owner’s pet.
The new scheme, supported by the Tories and Labour, is designed to curb the trade in stolen dogs, prevent the use of animals in anti-social or violent incidents and reduce the record number of stray dogs being found on British streets.
If an owner failed to insert a chip, at an estimated cost of about £10, they could be fined or face the possibility of having their pet taken away.
The chip would be installed once but if the owner’s personal details change the information on the database can be changed.
The chip, said to be the size of a rice granule, is implanted into the pet either behind the ears or between the shoulder blades.
Experts say the procedure is relatively painless for the animal and is over in a matter of seconds.
The plans, to be unveiled at the next election, were backed by animal charities, who say it was a quick, cheap and painless way of keeping tabs on animals.
The scheme, which is already being successfully piloted by the Conservative-run Wandsworth Council, would be phased in gradually to provide enough time for owners to comply with the changes.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If a collar and tag with my phone # & address have been sufficient for dogs for decades I see no reason to go all fancy and high-tech.
If a collar and tag with my phone # & address have been sufficient for dogs for decades I see no reason to go all fancy and high-tech.
The network hung up for a few seconds. Sorry about the double post.
I was in the waiting room at my vet’s office last week and a couple came in with a dog they had found that had a collar but no tag. Turned out the dog was microchipped and the vet’s office got the info and called the owner.
I couldn’t help thinking the nice couple who found the dog would have been saved a lot of time and energy if the owner had just put a lousy tag on her dog instead of relying on a microchip that required someone to have to make a trip (with the found dog in tow) to get it read. I can understand doing both (although, if the government required me to microchip, I wouldn’t do it just on principle), but for someone to microchip and then not tag their dog seemed ridiculous.
Micro-chipping pets is a great idea - and of course, as usual, the UK Socialist Government has jumped on it as a way to levy more taxes on pet-owners(often the most gullible citizens).
This will not, however, reduce puppy mills and the Kennel Clubs that make billions from ‘certification’ of puppy mill litters. Nor will it limit rural feral packs from breeding and starving.
And she's worth it 
Cats??????
Why do they always pick on dogs?
I just wonder how long it will take before one of the countries with socialized medicine starts requiring people to get microchips.
Oh, OK!
Very soon I would imagine.
just a dry run for sheeple.
Maybe you will microchip your children too when the gov’t tells you it’s a good idea. You love them, after all.
You’re carrying it a bit too far ... if someone steals my dog from my car, I would notify the agency and they’d put out a notice to all vets ... but back to you ... would you microchip your child in case it’s kidnapped? Like the chip puts out a signal so the child could be located? But then, when it turns 18, legal age - they go to a doctor and have it removed .... how’s that?
I am sure that is going to be in the works soon.
Apologies in advance for this short derail.
As I have stated on other threads, I see ObamaCare as a way of finally forcing a national ID down America’s collective throat. Your new National Health Insurance Card is going to be the ultimate ID CARD. Since everyone will be forced into the system eventually, everyone is going to have to have a card.
It already IS that way in Japan, where a “hokensho” health insurance card is often used as a de-facto ID by people without driver’s licenses or passports.
Yes, I have one, but in my case I have to carry an alien registration card anyhow, so it doesn’t matter.
But, from the socialist standpoint, chipping is even better. If they can do it for pets, they can do it for people.
/derail
***I just wonder how long it will take before one of the countries with socialized medicine starts requiring people to get microchips.***
Watch for new-borns in government run maternity wards to be micro-chipped and the excuse will be “So that babies can be quickly & permanently identified as natural born citizens with SS numbers and not ‘swapped in error’ as happened in ‘private hospitals’”
You know the Marxists have already been planning for this!
Maybe we’ve all already got one, and don’t know it...
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