What is wrong with compulsory chipping?
It is not possible to create responsible owners via legislation. Anyone that believes this can be done does not understand what responsible ownership entails. Governments increasingly want to control all elements of peoples’ lives and are no longer satisfied with their role of administering the nation’s infrastructure. The media play their part in calling for the state to “do something” and an increasingly infantalised public all too often fall into line. Responsibility cannot be state sanctioned – only obedience and fear can be state sanctioned. As a society we need to work together to improve our lives. There are a number of problems with chipping dogs, from health concerns to the fact that it simply will not solve the problems that proponents say it will. Many of these issues are spelt out in our Dog Manifesto as well as our ‘What’s Wrong?’ page.
