Animal Party welcomes dog registration scheme

[Paphos Life]

The Animal Party welcomed on Friday a new initiative by Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis for a scheme to provide incentives to dog owners to register their animals in a bid to tackle the increasing problem of strays.Kadis announced the plan after visiting animal shelters in Nicosia district on Thursday....

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[trevnhil]

I thought it was already a Law.. We HAD to have our stray dog chipped and registered with the government vet.. And pay a licence fee to the local council

[Kili01]

There are a lot of laws already on the statute book about animal welfare in Cyprus. The problem is that they are rarely enforced by the police.

Dee

[darrow]

It won't make one iota of difference to the people who allow their dogs to wander around, collerless, unchipped or thrown out. Or the people who don't get their dogs neutered or spayed. The resulting litters are disposed of in all sorts of unsavoury ways. Education and enforcement of the law is what we need.

[cyprusmax47]

If the Gov would enforce the law than thousands of dogs owned by farmers and so called "hunters" would disappear very quickly and less strays or dumped hunting dogs would be around the place...

Max

[trevnhil]

Hear hear.. Well said.. But realistically I doubt it is going to happen