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Licenses, Tags, Microchipping
* Currently in Riverside and
San Bernardino Counties only Dogs are required to be licensed.
* Tags & Lost
Dogs.... All Dogs should
have 3 tags...
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Tag 1
License Required by Cities/Counties the License number can be tracked
back to the owner to help get the dog home again.
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Tag
2 Personal ID Tag. With the owners Name, Address,
Phone #, Alternate Contact, so the lost dog can be returned immediately
by the person finding the animal.
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Tag 3
Rabies Vaccination Tag. Issued by Veterinarian who provided the
Mandatory Vaccination shot to the Dog. Has a unique number that can
also be tracked back to the Pets Owner. (Read
Here)
* Tags or Microchips?
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Even if your area does routinely check for microchips, please keep a collar
or harness with an ID tag on your pet with your current
phone number. The first person to find your pet may not have a microchip
scanner but probably will have a cell phone.
From: http://rfid.home.att.net/pet-chip.htm |
* Dog Licenses [
Click Here for More Details ]
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Dog Licenses required at 4
months of Age |
| City of Cathedral City |
(760)
770-0340 |
City Hall |
| City of Coachella |
(760) 398-2702 |
Finance |
| City of Desert Hot Springs |
(760)
251-5230 |
Code Enforcement |
| City of Indian Wells |
(760) 346-2489 |
City Hall |
| City of Indio |
(760) 342-6560 |
City Hall |
| City of Palm Desert |
(760) 346-0611 |
City Hall/Code Enforcement |
| City of Palm Springs |
(760) 323-8233 |
Cashier |
| City of Rancho Mirage |
(760) 324-4511 |
City Hall |
| County
of Riverside |
(951) 358-7387 |
Various Locations |
* Below is a little piece of Text regarding Microchips that has
appeared several places on the WWW. Much of it was a reality a few short years
ago. Today, this WebSite is working to affect changes to fix each of the points
addressed below.
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The reality is this:
If your pet is found and taken to a shelter
If the
shelter scans for chips
If the
shelter uses the frequency (Brand) that your chip is
If the chip
has not failed
If the chip
has not migrated
If the
employee (often volunteers with the best intentions, but poorly trained) scans
correctly
If the person has paid to
register the chip and paid each time to update their information as it has
changed over the years
...then the pet can get home.
That is a lot of
"ifs".
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So, Do Microchips really
work? By the numbers:
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164 million dogs and cats nationwide.
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8 to 10 million pets lost each year & only a small fraction are returned via
MicroChips.
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2 million+ are implanted with either the Avid or HomeAgain MicroChips.
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Avid has 18 million MicroChip records in its database.
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Avid 8,000 weekly returned = 416,000 annual returned on 18 million records
= 0.023% of its database.
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HomeAgain & CAR has 2.7 million MicroChip records in database.
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HomeAgain 270,000 total reunited (since inception) 3 million sold
A successful recovery occurs every 6 minutes, 10 recoveries take place every hour
7,000 recoveries take place every month = 84,000 a year = 2.8% recovery
of its database.
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That's 13% currently chipped (other sources say 5% to
8.2% are MicroChipped ).
In Great Britain 25% of pets MicroChipped & 47% of dogs in Great Britain are returned home via Microchips.
In Australia,
(which has mandatory MicroChipping) the Chart below clearly shows that
microchips do work. Notice the steady increase in MicroChip recoveries
year over year.
From: http://www.car.com.au/images/RecoveriesGraph.gif
Created
by Juddley |
