Warning: Microchip your dog or face £500 fine...
Apr 05, 2016, 11:19 AM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, April 2016)
Dog owners of Staffordshire and Cheshire, listen up - you could be landed with a five hundred pound fine if you don't follow new rules coming in this week.
From tomorrow it'll be compulsory in England, Scotland and Wales for all dogs to be microchipped -- registered with the owner's details stored on a national database.
With an estimated 9 million pet pooches in the UK, getting them all covered has been a major project.
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been to Island Vets in Stafford, which was offering a micro-chipping service...