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Closed Make phone numbers compulsory and home addresses optional on dog ID tags

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The Control of Dogs Order 1992 is an outdated law, requiring the home address of an owner to be engraved on the dog's ID tags, or risk a £5k fine; phone numbers are, however, optional! Microchipping and the wide use and accessibility of mobile phones render this law futile in the following ways:

-Dog theft is soaring, 1959 dogs were reported stolen in the UK (2018). An address seen on an ID tag could lead to a home being targeted
-Owners addresses are kept on secure databases of microchipping companies that are released to authorised people
-If a dog was to go missing whilst on holiday or walking in a location away from home, a phone number would be the most effective way of reuniting
-The homeless are not considered in this law
Phone numbers on ID tags would be safer and more effective

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