6-MONTH MICROCHIP DELAY OK'D COUNTY DOG OWNERS GET BRIEF REPRIEVE.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Pet owners in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County have an additional six months to get their dogs neutered neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. and microchipped after a vote Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors. Saturday had been the deadline for residents in such communities as Quartz Hill, Littlerock, Acton and Lake Los Angeles to meet the new requirements. But Supervisor Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to sponsored a motion extending that period six months. When the grace period ends, dog owners who fail to comply with the ordinance could face $250 fines. ``Due to the high demand for spay/neuter and microchip services, a number of county dog owners may not be able to achieve compliance by the end of this grace period,'' Knabe wrote in his motion to the board. The Department of Animal Care and Control supported the extension of the deadline, said department spokesman Bob Ballenger. In June, the board approved an ordinance requiring dogs in unincorporated areas -- except for qualifying show dogs, guide dogs and police dogs -- to be spayed spay tr.v. spayed, spay·ing, spays To remove surgically the ovaries of (an animal). [Middle English spaien, from Anglo-Norman espeier, to cut with a sword or neutered and implanted with an identifying microchip. About the size of a grain of rice, each microchip has a code number embedded in it that can be read by a handheld scanner. The number is stored in a database that includes the owner's contact information. The law is an outgrowth of a proposal by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San to require spaying spaying: see castration. or neutering neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. of pit bulls and Rottweilers, made after an attack in January on an 11- month-old Palmdale girl. That was the latest in an upswing of Antelope Valley dog attacks, all but one involving pit bulls or pit bull mixes. Ironically, the attack on the little girl was by a pit bull mix that was both licensed and neutered and was inside its owner's home. The neutering-microchip law applies only in unincorporated areas of the county. It does not apply to dogs living inside the borders of cities like Palmdale or Lancaster. For information on neutering services and microchip clinics, log on to animalcontrol.co.la.ca.us. |
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