Keeping Pets Is Reprehensible

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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

Doh!

The devil's in the details, ain't it. To whit, if you could or care to, and other readers as well, please try and find out for your local area what percentage of pets requiring a license actually have it. As I earlier said anecdotally (wasn't able to find the story online) one of my local news stations reported that in Portland Oregon only 10% of dogs and 3% of cats are licensed contrary to the laws. Of course I presume that licensing your pet is part & parcel of "good" pet ownership (it certainly is indicative of bad citizenship to disobey the laws) so on this little schema then the vast majority of dog & cat owners in Portland are "bad" pet owners.

So it goes.

addendum: What's good for the goose is good for the gander they say, so I flew off & had a look in my area. I did not find anything yet for my specific county, but I did for other areas in the State:

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Based on a formula used to estimate total pet population, Table 3 shows that 13% of the cats and dogs in Pierce County are licensed. The percentage is much lower than in Tacoma and King County (which, as mentioned earlier, serves 20 cities), but it is a little higher than in Snohomish and Kitsap counties. Thus, it could be argued that Pierce County’s estimated number of licensed pets is in line with the experience of comparable jurisdictions.Best PracticesPierce County and other jurisdictions have used a number of approaches to increase the number of pet licenses. These include employing people to canvass areas, increasing the number of locales where licenses can be purchased, and marketing through inserts, 1The AVMA pet calculator is at http://www.avma.org/reference/market...culator.aspThe [note: link is dead ]Pierce County Auditors Office uses the AVMA formula to aid in its work. ...

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Still looking....
But I do agree that failing to license an animal is being a "bad" pet owner....here it's like $8 for a regular license and $65 for a lifetime chip license....on the downside you do have to have a minimum of a valid rabies tag (meaning your animal has been vaccinated) to get your license meaning there are very likely a LOT of people that don't get their licenses because they can't afford the vet bill for the shot....even though the our local Petsmart provides these shots for less than $10 once a month so that ain't even a legitimate excuse

Our pup has the lifetime RFID chip license....made good financial sense to us ($8 a year X an average of 17 years vs. $65 once) plus it's registered with out vet, the licensing agency and the AKC so our pup if she were pupnaped or decide to go walkabout is more likely to be recovered and returned.(in theory anyway)

[Chacmool]

The more people I meet, the more I love my cats...