Microchipping and registration duplicates cost - Buckley
Waikato Federated Farmers president Peter Buckley says that if local councils policed dog registration there would be no need for microchipping.
Mr Buckley will today hand over a 5500-signature petition on the steps of Parliament opposing new government regulations will require all dogs first registered after July 1 to be implanted with a microchip. My name is there!
Mr Buckley said that farmers did not oppose microchipping of animals where it made business sense: they would soon be spending $30 million or more on putting radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips in eartags on each of the nation's 10 million cattle.
GPS makes more sense to me...
The payoff from such tagging would be in providing traceability for export meat and milk, and in allowing farmers to treat animals individually.
But farmers objected to having to pay for both microchipping as well as paying annual dog registration fees to councils. I DO TOO!
"If they said we were just going to have the microchips and not registration, then we might have a different point of view," he said. I don't understand why we have to do both. Microchipping IS registration! NOR do I understand why we have to pay YEARLY fees! If they are microchipped, that's for life!
"The real problem is the compliance costs involved: it's got to be either registration or microchipping."
Mr Buckley said he could understand the stance of the nation's veterinary lobby, which has argued exemptions for farm dogs would undermine the effort to change society's attitudes to taking responsibility for dog attacks. Yup ... either all dogs or no dogs!
"But in New South Wales, they make a similar system work with farm dogs exempted," he said.
Fairness demanded that if microchipping was required by law, the law should be enforced against not only farmers and other middle-class owners, but also the no-hopers and people with criminal tendencies who would be the last to register or chip their dogs.
In some small towns and city suburbs unregistered dogs were rife, and it was likely the owners would be just as irresponsible about microchipping.
Mr Buckley will today hand over a 5500-signature petition on the steps of Parliament opposing new government regulations will require all dogs first registered after July 1 to be implanted with a microchip. My name is there!
Mr Buckley said that farmers did not oppose microchipping of animals where it made business sense: they would soon be spending $30 million or more on putting radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips in eartags on each of the nation's 10 million cattle.
GPS makes more sense to me...
The payoff from such tagging would be in providing traceability for export meat and milk, and in allowing farmers to treat animals individually.
But farmers objected to having to pay for both microchipping as well as paying annual dog registration fees to councils. I DO TOO!
"If they said we were just going to have the microchips and not registration, then we might have a different point of view," he said. I don't understand why we have to do both. Microchipping IS registration! NOR do I understand why we have to pay YEARLY fees! If they are microchipped, that's for life!
"The real problem is the compliance costs involved: it's got to be either registration or microchipping."
Mr Buckley said he could understand the stance of the nation's veterinary lobby, which has argued exemptions for farm dogs would undermine the effort to change society's attitudes to taking responsibility for dog attacks. Yup ... either all dogs or no dogs!
"But in New South Wales, they make a similar system work with farm dogs exempted," he said.
Fairness demanded that if microchipping was required by law, the law should be enforced against not only farmers and other middle-class owners, but also the no-hopers and people with criminal tendencies who would be the last to register or chip their dogs.
In some small towns and city suburbs unregistered dogs were rife, and it was likely the owners would be just as irresponsible about microchipping.
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