DOG CHIP MANDATE IN EFFECT TODAY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- A series of free clinics starts today at the Lancaster Animal Shelter "Dog Pound" redirects here. For the rap group, see Tha Dogg Pound. An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. for dog owners to have their pets implanted with tiny microchips that hold identification data. A new 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 ordinance requiring the chips -- about the size of a grain of rice -- takes effect today, with a grace period of three months. The chips will be implanted free for dogs living in Quartz Hill, Littlerock and other unincorporated county territories affected by the new regulation. Residents also will receive free lifetime registration for their animals. The program will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Sunday and from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. The shelter is at 5201 W. Ave. I, Lancaster. The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. approved an ordinance requiring all dogs -- except for qualifying show dogs, guide dogs and police dogs -- 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 neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. and that dogs more than 4 months old be implanted with the identifying chip. The procedure is nonsurgical and requires no anesthetic. Each microchip has a code number embedded in it that can be read by a hand-held scanner. The number is stored in a database that included the owner's contact information. |
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