why pay $55 a year when you can just put a dog tag and have your dog chipped. thats like paying a fee for the right to own an animal. i dont live in san jose, but where i live there isnt a dog catcher that goes around, animals are found by people and turned into the animal rescue which is not city managed

 

Please read the entire thread, it is not just a means of animal recovery. And yes, you do have to pay a fee to own a dog, the license! You don't just get to do whatever you want in this country

 

thanks i read every post personally i see no point in paying a yearly fee to own an animal. it is just a way for the city to take your money for stupid reasons. to me its like having to pay for a city building permit to install a ceiling fan where you use to just have a light. and if registering your animal isnt just a form of animal recovery, then what is the point, other than handing the city money?

 

To keep track of animal vaccinations. Preventive disease control?? Same reason you and I have a immunization record right?

 

Do you think the city runs on fairy dust and rainbows or something? People with dogs use things like sidewalks, rec trails, and parks to exercise their dogs. The city creates and maintains these things.

Not to mention the filing of the license paperwork and vaccine records as well as the archiving and storage of the information, be it hardcopy in a filing cabinet that had to be purchased and placed in a room in a building which had to be built and has to be maintained, or digitally on a computer/server which had to be purchased and needs to be maintained as well as supplied with power and stored in a room in a building which had to be built and has to be maintained