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**SNUfR8uI** · 09-22-2012, 01:49 AM

The RSPCA are calling for microchipping to be a compulsory legal regulation - in a bid to keep track of owners and dangerous dogs after the number of dog attacks continues to rise in the UK. At the moment it is very hard to prove who owns a dog and therefore the dog ends up getting punished but the owners often end up evading punishment.

"Every day, 12 Royal Mail workers are attacked by dogs. In the year to March 2011, 6,005 adults and children were admitted to hospitals in England after they were "bitten or struck by a dog", the fifth successive year-on-year increase. Six children and two adults have been killed since 2006. In London, where status or weapon dogs are a common sight and there appears to be an arms race to create ever more menacing hybrids, A&E admissions for young people with bite injuries have increased by 119% over five years."

There's an article on it here http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/ja...t-in-spotlight

What do you think?

If you're not in the UK, how would you feel if this was being discussed for your country? Are dogs out of control due to irresponsible owners a problem worldwide and will this clear-legal link between owners and their dogs make them behave more responsibly?

09-22-2012, 01:49 AM	#1
SNUfR8uI Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Should all dogs be microchipped? The RSPCA are calling for microchipping to be a compulsory legal regulation - in a bid to keep track of owners and dangerous dogs after the number of dog attacks continues to rise in the UK. At the moment it is very hard to prove who owns a dog and therefore the dog ends up getting punished but the owners often end up evading punishment. "Every day, 12 Royal Mail workers are attacked by dogs. In the year to March 2011, 6,005 adults and children were admitted to hospitals in England after they were "bitten or struck by a dog", the fifth successive year-on-year increase. Six children and two adults have been killed since 2006. In London, where status or weapon dogs are a common sight and there appears to be an arms race to create ever more menacing hybrids, A&E admissions for young people with bite injuries have increased by 119% over five years." There's an article on it here http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/ja...t-in-spotlight What do you think? If you're not in the UK, how would you feel if this was being discussed for your country? Are dogs out of control due to irresponsible owners a problem worldwide and will this clear-legal link between owners and their dogs make them behave more responsibly?
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