New Zealand Dog News

Reviewing the dog news in New Zealand with editors comments. Someone needs to keep reviewing how our dogs are doing in society.

June 03, 2006

Ignore dog chipping law - Fed Farmers

Federated Farmers is calling on councils to ignore the new dog microchipping laws, but says it is not inciting civil disobedience.
Now what kind of message does THAT send to our kids??

"Ignoring the law is the most effective way at this late stage for councils to convince the Government that microchipping has no support, and must be repealed," the lobby group's president Charlie Pedersen said.
But I guess the kids already know that... hell, they take those "dangerous", "mind alterring" drugs, don't they? oh la la

He made the call during an anti-microchipping demonstration at the national sheep dog trials in Omarama. (...)

"It is difficult to find support for microchipping outside Parliament and the veterinarians," he said. (...)

"If farmers got away with registering pet animals as exempted working dogs, then a lot of urban owners would be encouraged to do the same to avoid the cost of chipping," he said.
Hell, we couldn't allow that, now could we? What kind of precedence does that send...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

 
web page hit counter