The Town Hall, in collaboration with the Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Granada, intends to create a municipal registry of all pet and pet owners. This will be coupled with obligatory chips for the animals so that owners can be identified.

The Mayor of Salobreña, Gonzalo Fernández Pulido says that this move will mean, “Each pet owner will be responsible and thus do away with the sight of abandoned animals and excrement on public footpaths.”

Accordingly, the Policía Local will be armed with microchip readers, as well as the customary 9mm pistols, so that they can carry out the identification of mutts caught in the act of ‘planting a pine,’ as the Spanish say. Of course, the system will also facilitate the owners of lost animals.

The provincial veterinary college will have the task of actually compiling the registry and running it. Now, Andalusian law stipulates that dogs and ferrets, yes, ferrets, have microchips implanted; it doesn’t mention cats or jellyfish…

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)