Mandatory Microchipping and Fees Proposed in Indiana

[borzoimom]

isnt this just stupid???!

[CathyBogart]

On the surface it looks nice, but it's so flawed...like you pointed out, sometimes it's not ideal to chip a dog at six months, and some owners of intact dogs are very responsible.

On the flip side, many owners of unaltered dogs (from what I've seen in my area) are not responsible enough to know how to keep their dogs from reproducing (It seems so SIMPLE, doesn't it? *shakes head*) and $50 a year isn't terribly high.

It seems that a policy like this has the potential to be very helpful, but will also put undue strain on responsible owners. I don't know what to think of this.

[borzoimom]

I know know Cathy either. They tried this same logic of charging more for the license for a unaltered dog- .. I dont know..
I do know this- when I had my shepherds, I could not put up a beware of dog sign at my house. I could put that there were trained police dogs- etc but no sign " of threat" only knowledge.. And this was from Allstate ( I think..) at the time.

[JenBKR]

I don't think it's right. Government should not be able to dictate how we chose to identify our dogs. And I really don't see how it could be enforced.

[borzoimom]

This will be the same thing again- only the ones responsible enough to follow the law will pay- the others will continue..

[cassiesmom]

It looks like it wasn't thought completely through. These are all good points that I think the Indiana legislators should be made aware of. I wish there was a national micro-chip registry, though.

[critter crazy]

I think the Microchipping is a good Idea, however the whole "beware of dog" thing, just gets me. I dont understand the point????

I do agree, that non-fixed dogs should have to pay, simply because it will cause people who arent "breedrs" to stop/slow down the accidental breedings, as people will pay to have their pets fixed, so they dont have to pay the yearly fee. and the serious breeders, shouldnt have a porblem with this, as they will se the bigger picture, of less unwanted litters.