AR-News: (US IL) You may have to 'chip' your pet

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted January 22, 2004 
Every pet cat, dog and ferret in Cook County would have to be implanted with 
an identifying microchip under a proposal discussed Wednesday by a Cook County 
Board panel. 
The proposed ordinance, sponsored by Commissioner Peter Silvestri of Elmwood 
Park, would mean that some 3 million pets would have to have the implants. 
Other pets, like birds and reptiles, would not be covered by the law. 
Owners who did not comply would face fines of $20 per day, but it's doubtful 
that the county is in any position to enforce the ordinance, considering one 
study showed only a 25 percent compliance rate with the county's existing 
ordinance requiring rabies vaccinations. 
The microchip is about the size of a grain of rice, can be implanted with a 
syringe into the folds of skin on a pet's neck scruff and allows lost pets to 
be readily identified and reunited with their owners, said Dan Parmer, 
administrator of the Cook County Department of Animal and Rabies Control.


full story:

http://www.dailyherald.com/cook/main_story.asp?intID=380088



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