Get your pet microchipped (From Witney Gazette)
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Get your pet microchipped
1:00pm Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News
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Five-month-old springer spaniel Breeches gets ready to have a microchip fitted with, left to right, owner Simon Hadley, Lorna Jones and Dawn Long. Picture: OX56725 Ric Mellis
DOG owners are being given the opportunity to get their pet microchipped for free this month in Witney.
Last year, West Oxfordshire District Council picked up 236 lost or stray dogs, over a third of which were never reunited with their owners.
A microchip contains contact information for the dog’s owner, which can then be scanned and read by a vet or council officer.
Doing the microchipping this month, the council’s stray dogs officer Dawn Long says the free service has had a great response.
She said: “At the moment, a collar and a tag is a legal requirement.
“But if a dog gets lost then its collar can be removed.”
The free service is for West Oxfordshire district residents only. There are still some places left on January 28 and 30 at the WFS Country Shop in Burford Road, but booking is essential.
- To book your place fill in the online form at http://westoxon.gov.uk/dogs or call 01993 861020.
dant40 says...
9:32am Fri 18 Jan 13
First time we inquired only inquired! As never lived next to people with more then two dogs. But the bloke sent them a complaint letter with out going though me on the phone first so it was a suprize when we had lots of bad language at us in the street. I tried to tel them I only inquired, and I needed to explain you guys that your dogs are going at it all hours when your out but I got told where to go.
They shut the dogs up for 28 days and now it's been going on over a year of barking
I've told them what we have suffered but said only way round it is just put your music or tv up everytime they bark. But this barking goes on to 01.00 and first thing early morning I mean 06.45 until I take kids to school, and weekends
Envomental have left us with a problem where we can't sell our house if we complain as it as to be on paper, and we have to tel the buyer. It's a living hell.
I put this because its to do with dogs, and hope someone might have a better way to go and get this sorted.
Sorry for the spelling and gramma