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Yes I think all dogs should be microchipped. Certainly a help with re-uniting dog and owner but I guess irresponsible owners would just flout the law and not microchip anyway. Would probably be quite hard to police as you'd have to scan to see if the dog was chipped. I suppose vets could check that every dog that they see is chipped but then again irresponsible owners rarely take their dogs to the vets.
Bart got out one time while we were on holiday and the dogs were being looked after by a relative, he ran up the lane and down the slip road onto the M4! Luckily a couple of kind motorists stopped and managed to catch him, his collar had come off somehow. They managed to get him in the lady's car, he's a very stressy dog and was apparently quite hysterical by this time. The police didn't want to know and it was Saturday afternoon and no local vets open. The woman ended up driving all the way to her own vets in Llanelli about 50 miles away. As he was chipped they soon managed to get in touch with us and he was re-united with us. If he hadn't been chipped god knows what would of happened to him as we would never of thought of looking for him that far away from home.