PET STORE WELCOMES NEW LAW!

'THINK OF ANOTHER WAY TO SCREW 'EM'

Has there ever been, or will there ever be a time when ‘new Government legislation’ is introduced that does not cost us any money?

I’m sure there must several ‘Government Think tanks’ manned by armies of bureaucratic global practice leaders, specialising in diverse strategies, going forward, which focus on relieving the burden on hard-working people and their desire to keep their money!

Or to put it in plain English; staffed by brown nosed gits that sit in some plush London office block thinking of more and more devious was of screwing every last penny out of the population.

Their latest brainchild, as I mentioned briefly in earlier my piece on ‘National Poo Day’ – is regarding the new legislation which will make it ‘compulsory’ for all dogs in England and Wales to be ‘microchipped’ by April 2016.

Featured on page 8 in this week’s Reporter, an Ashton Pet Store has welcomed the news!

I bet they welcomed the news at £15.00 per dog! And if you prefer taking your pet to your local private veterinary clinic, the costs can rise rapidly to somewhere between £20 and £30.

But it doesn’t stop there! You then have to have that chip registered 

In the article, Store Manager Allan Ferries said, “Microchipping is a fool-proof method of keeping your pets safe!” Now that’s a very bold statement, and one that a reader from Gee Cross would find little comfort in, on finding that her beloved pet cat had been knocked down and left for dead on Stockport Road, Gee Cross.

How would a microchip have saved her cat?

I concede that ‘Microchipping’ is probably the most effective way of identifying a lost pet, but it won’t keep it immune to accidents, and it’s not fool proof!

Another issue that competing microchip companies forget to mention is that different microchip businesses use different frequencies to send signals to scanners, and until recently there was no universal scanner that could read all the different frequencies. 

The article conveniently failed to mention that you will also have to update the chips information if you were to move house. In which case you need to contact the company that registers the chip to update your information; otherwise, the chip will be useless. 

This will also incur a small fee to process the update!

So come April 2016, don't be surprised if you see hundreds more abandoned ‘unchipped’ dogs wandering the streets!