suburbanreuben":f5bcta46 said:
Why?
You have a dog. You have it chipped (mine are chipped and their details are on a register) and you hang a tag with it's details on it's collar.
What is so bleedin' tricky about that?
25 years of unregulated dog ownership; there is the root of the problem!
I have 4 dogs, 1 is chipped.
The 25 years is, indeed, the root of the problem. And that is why enforcing any blanket regulation now will not succeed.
If licencing had continued then regulation now may have had a hope.
But it didn't, so now we have 25 years of uncontrolled dog breeding by anyone who had a couple of dogs with the appropriate genitalia.
The dog population of the UK is unknown. It's estimated at 6.7million.
DEFRA have proposals dated last April to promote more responsible dog ownership but I suspect they will fail. If for nothing else than any legislation that is spewed forth will only be adhered to by the law abiding public. The others will just ignore it and carry on, as they did when the DDA was first introduced in 1991.
Anyone who thinks that stuff like this has a cat in hells chance of success is only fooling themselves.
Not saying it's right, I would be much happier if the breeding and ownership of dogs was regulated. But it hasn't been for far too long now.
