People are being reminded of the importance of micro chipping dogs after council officers picked up more strays in November than any other month this year. Microchipping has been law since 2015, but despite this Nottingham City Council is still finding dogs that have not been microchipped, or many of those microchipped have not updated the registered details.
For example, details not being updated if the owner has moved house, changed their phone number or is no longer the dog's owner. This makes it difficult for officers in the Nottingham City Council Dog Control Team, based at Byron House, within the Central Police Station in Maid Marian Way, to reunite pets with their homes.
In November just gone, the team picked up 25 animals from across the city, only three of which were reunited with their owners and 22 were sent to the kennels, where 13 have been reclaimed and nine - at the time of writing - remain at the kennels for re-homing. Only 12% of animals in November were directly returned to their owners, with the average for 2022 being almost 30%.
