Did the people behind this honestly expect little Susie to file a report to the feds every time she rides her shetland pony up the road to visit the neighbor kid?
>>>Did the people behind this honestly expect little Susie to file a report to the feds every time she rides her shetland pony up the road to visit the neighbor kid?
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Yes, that's exactly what this law is about. If you ride a horse off one "premises location" (and every one of them is to be registered in this stupid system) to another, you have twenty-four hours to get it into the system.
They want to know where every blessed animal in these United States is located at all times.
Did the people behind this honestly expect little Susie to file a report to the feds every time she rides her shetland pony up the road to visit the neighbor kid?""
The people behind this insanity don't have any exposure to large animals or farm animals, IMO.
I have horses, and this "law" will make me an instant criminal.
I can ride/train from my driveway, and I will NOT report my every movement, much less the movement of my horses and dogs. Hell, the dogs leave the property every day to greet people at the mailbox across the street. Good luck to the officials with that problem.
This is more than "just tagging the critters with a microchip at the cost of $25 each". The owner must also have a scanner- cost about $800 on hand at all times to scan the critters for any official and prove they are yours, etc. If I take any of my horses to an event, I must
take the scanner with me and be prepared to scan them if I am stopped enroute, and they must be scanned when they enter and leave the event, and the time recorded.
This is so over the top, it proves that some government employees have waaaayyy toooo much time on their hands.
This is the same government that cannot keep track of convicted sex offenders, for crying out loud!!!!! Seems to me that is far more important than where my mares are at all times.
USA has had VIN numbers in vehicles and trailers for decades. It hasn't slowed down thefts, nor has it speeded up getting the vehicles back to their rightful owners.
This is a serious intrusion into your freedom of travel, and I for one won't do it. The government can come and get my critters and take care of them. I doubt they will do anywhere near as good a job of that as I do and have been doing for over 2 decades.
If owning horses is making me an outlaw, then perhaps only outlaws will own horses???