District's dog registrations up as owners get educated

The number of dogs registered in the Timaru district has increased by 14 per cent during the past year. The Timaru District Council's annual dog control report shows 8224 dogs were registered in the 2005/06 year. However, not all of those will be "new" dogs – some will just not have been registered before, and it's believed there could still be hundreds of unregistered dogs in the district.

Cr Terry Kennedy wasn't impressed with that, and said the council should be carrying out a purge, otherwise it was unfair on the law-abiding owners who did register their dogs.

But he was told the cost of carrying out something like a door-to-door purge would likely far outweigh the lost revenue. Hey, they can talk sense :)

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