On Monday April 26th, the House Ways and Means Committee will be holding a work session on an amendment to SB 450 that, if passed will raise the licensing fee from $200 to $350 for pet stores, humane societies, rescue organizations, and commercial kennels.
The license fee was last raised in 2004. The additional money raised will go to the Agriculture Department to help offset the costs of inspections of licensed facilities.
If you want to attend, the work session will be held in Room 202 in the Legislative Office Building at 3 p.m.
SB 365 – requiring the sterilization of animals adopted from shelters mandates that licensed animal shelter sterilize all dogs and cats that they “sell, give away, adopt or otherwise transfer ownership of.”
There are no exemptions for the health or well-being of the animal nor is it clear whether this would apply to dogs and cats being reclaimed by their owners.
Many years ago, DOGS helped to get passed a law that requires animal shelters to scan for microchips when an animal arrives at their facilities. One problem has always been determining which registry the owner may have used. Now, thanks to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), there is a central location to look up microchip numbers. Their database includes microchips registered with AKC CAR, HomeAgain, Petlink by Datamars and ResQ by Bayer (AVID, Banfield and 24PetWatch are not included).
The site is www.petmicrochiplookup.org When you enter a microchip number, if it is registered with one of the participating registries, you will be given the number of the proper registry to call to get more information.
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