Can't agree with pets and guns being equivalent in any way though?

@RavenCT Are you an NRA member?.

@Lincster45 No. I'm not?

One's an object the other is a family member.

I'm all for chipping but regulating? What would that entail?

@RavenCT My view,microchipped and registered pets are more likely to be returned to their owner. We had two wonderful dogs over the years that came from the local dog officer. I have every reason to believe there is some family, somewhere, that grieved for years for their lost pet. The Poodle, a magnificent standard, we discovered responded to commands in French. We also stumbled onto her name the morning my dad said, as she begged at the breakfast table, "You look just like Cocoa." If you never saw a dog react with joy you would have at that moment. That moment will be with me forever... more than 50 years ago. I'm glad we had her, but registered, with a collar and tags, even if lost by a Canadian family from Quebec, would have been returned home. In this day I believe all pets should be microchipped and registered, automatic with the chip insertion. Every cat we had, save one, wandered into our lives, each was checked for a microchip, nothing.

@Lincster45 I didn't know what you meant by "registered". Now I do.

I agree and if I ever have the money for it - I will get it done. (Indoor only cats with tags and collars).

Also they need to create one database of pet chips - it can be hard to track down. I think they're getting better about it now? Need to ask my Vet.

@Lincster45 Also had a cat that came to me at the age of 7 or 8 while I was out watching a meteor shower,

He had the nicest indoor manners of any cat. He had to be someone's at one time - but no collar and no chip. So I got him for the rest of his life. He was a wonderful cat!

Orion! Btw

@RavenCT Been there so many times, one delightful little Manx or Japanese Bobtail. Full grown, had had litters, wonderful She had to be someone's pet, but nothing. Later we heard their had been a breeder living near us, the lady had died, so exactly what happened then is unknown. We had a door blow open in a storm and everybody got out and came back in but her. We were devastated, but she returned a few days later, came in, and that was that. Our assumption, she took one more trip back home to see if she could find her owner. Another clue we might have been right, when my mom-in-law would come to visit, Smidgen, as we named her, and at mom's side every minute she was with us.

@Lincster45 Sometimes realtors or even family just let the pets out after a death. That sounds really possible.

@RavenCT I'm hoping to have a plan for my girls in case I die before them. Finding a responsible cat person who doesn't already have one or more is difficult.

That's terrible that people would just let pets out like that! After my mother died, one of my relatives suggested that her (last cat I ever brought home) cat should be "put to sleep". People just boggle my brain sometimes.

@ailurophile Yes it makes me really dislike humans as a species.

We need to do better then that.

I've pretty much told my sibs "They kept me alive when no one else did" I hope it has some weight when I drop dead.

That is what the police here are advocating to reduce human road toll.

@FrayedBear No it was about deliberately running down pets in the road originally. (Frickin' Eidetic memory).

It's been changed.

@RavenCT The original newspaper report was about other animals in the road but would encompass cats and dogs. I do not recall posting about deliberately running down anything in the road and considering that I still remember the feel and resultant horror of the left front wheel of the car I was passenger in the front seat of running over a rabbit 50 years ago, I'm unlikely to remind myself of it.
If you wish I will supply you with the newspaper url.
Please supply me the url to your eidectic memory.

@FrayedBear What is meant by "human road toll"? People who swerve to miss animals in the road, and end up hurt or killed themselves?

@FrayedBear It was part of the original post - the third listed item.
To which I posted "If anyone votes for that third one they're sociopaths" about running down pets in the road.

I can't show you my memory mores the shame! Maybe you could just remove it for me? lol

@FrayedBear Oh we're arguing about the same point. They're telling you to run down animals in the road?

I hit a raccoon once - and I made everyone go back and look to see if it could be saved. Never found it but felt awful.