| Why a Dog License????? Lost dogs wearing a license come home. Animal control, S.P.C.A, can look up the license and take your pet home and not to the pound. This does not traumatize the dog as if it was taken to a large kennel with hundreds of barking dogs. Injured dog Dogs hit by a car or down on the Street will lie there until someone (a citizen) picks them up and take them to the Vet where they lay there again, suffering and in pain until forty-eight hours or the owner arrives. If no owner is found the Vet may put him or her down. If the SPCA is called, they give the Vet $50.00 to prolong life for 48 hours. If the injured dog has a dog license police can call, run the tag and notify the owner so the dog can be taken care of immediately. The owner can okay treatment over the phone so the animal is not suffering. Dog bites when a dog bites three or four different agencies get involved. State dog law, State health department, local police and animal control. All ask the same questions does the dog have Rabies shots, does the dog have a license. This all can be avoided if the records were one file in one place. Each time the file is called the agency can see the last time the Rabies shots were given. This can put the victim and the doctors on the right track. Stray dog bites if a dog gets out. He or she is sometimes scared enough to bite for various reasons. The dog is taken into custody and held for 48 hours. If no owner appears the dog is destroyed and tested for Rabies. If the county had a database the animal control officer could punch into the computer information about where the dog was found, and a description of the dog. Within minutes a list of possible owners for the dog would appear. Just a phone call away. Dog fighting Dog fighting and training is a problem everywhere. Police and animal control get calls, after calls about dog fighting. Sometimes when officers arrive, dogs and people are still, but there is no fight going on. This ties the officer’s hands. The officer tries to identify the owners of the dogs. This task itself is a near impossibility because of no identification. If we had a database we could identify the dog to its owner, and if we could not, the dog could be taken into custody for being unlicensed, and held until the rightful owner comes to purchase a dog license, and identify himself. This will remove 50 percent of the dogs that fight on the street daily and put back control to the police officer. Dog theft dogs are still stolen everyday right out of the owners yard. The tag may be taken off, but with a database, any one seen with a dog answering that description may be stopped and ask to produce a dog license. Without a license, the dog may be held for identification or looked up in the database to see if that dog is registered to the suspect. Stopping a horrible slow death to the stolen dog. Private property when a dog is licensed, it becomes private property. If someone keeps a licensed dog not belonging to them. They can be prosecuted under the law. 85 percent of dogs that are lost yearly never come home |
| Why a Dog License????? It's the Law! Fines can be up to $300.00 plus court cost |
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| Delaware County Animal Control 610 522-1113 |
WE REMOVE DEAD ANIMALS AND CARCASSES