Mark, first of all, thank you so much for your time and for being willing to share your skill and experience with us.
It's clear from your introduction that you have a wealth of experience in animal control, education and welfare advocacy.
Based on your experiences, knowledge and research, if you have the time to address some general questions, I'd really appreciate your thoughts.
In communities that require licensing, especially given low compliance in licensing pets, does it not make sense to include vets, breeders, and pet stores in the process? When I want to go fishing, I purchase a fishing license at a sporting goods store...
Along these same lines, never having adopted an animal from a shelter (just parks and my backyard
), I have no clue here, but do animals have to be licensed before they leave the shelters for their new home? Wouldn't it make sense to enable vets/shetlers &etc. to license the animals? Wouldn't that dramatically change the revenue generated by increasing compliance? And couldn't vets/shelters &etc. be incentivized by being able to keep some small percentage of the licensing fees?
I have many other questions, but think this is good for a start.....
Thanks,
Laurie
It's clear from your introduction that you have a wealth of experience in animal control, education and welfare advocacy.
Based on your experiences, knowledge and research, if you have the time to address some general questions, I'd really appreciate your thoughts.
In communities that require licensing, especially given low compliance in licensing pets, does it not make sense to include vets, breeders, and pet stores in the process? When I want to go fishing, I purchase a fishing license at a sporting goods store...
Along these same lines, never having adopted an animal from a shelter (just parks and my backyard
I have many other questions, but think this is good for a start.....
Thanks,
Laurie