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QLD cat registration compulsory from July 1

Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009

For all cat owners living in Queensland. From July 1 all 11 southeast Queensland councils including Brisbane will make cat owners register their animals with collars and identification tags. This will be law and will be compulsory.

This also means that all new kittens cannot be sold until they are microchipped. This brings Queensland in line with every other State and only leaves the Northern Territory as the only jurisdictions without compulsory registration and identification of cats (and dogs).

This move is designed to stop tens of thousands of stray cats and kittens being put down each year and also to reunite owners with their lost cats. This law has fallen a little short though. I think they should have introduced mandatory desexing with cats which were not being used for breeding purposes. If you consider that almost 100,000 cats were dumped at the RSPCA between 2003 and 2006 and half of these were destroyed mandatory desexing laws would go a long way to resolving this unnecessary slaughter.

Its a good start though!

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