San Jose’s animal services agency has been audited by the city council. The audit report concludes only 17,7% of the 190.000 dogs and 5,7% of the 205.000 cats in this city are licensed. This is only 11,5 percent of the likely 400.000 dogs and cats in San Jose! Though, the number of licensed animals has been improved since 2003 according to the audit. Licensing cats and dogs is very important because that’s the only way to guarantee the owners that their animal has been vaccinated against the rabies virus. This virus is deadly to people and other mammals, so this means licensing is a matter of public health. The audit report recommends San Jose to improve its licensing system or to board out licensing.
I think it’s very good that there has been an audit of this agency because it revealed the little amount of animal licensing in San Jose. First of all, it’s important to license the animals because their owners can be sure they are vaccinated. And second of all because the public health of this city could be in danger. If the people of San Jose react now, they can perhaps avoid a real catastrophe, not only for humanity but also for the animals!
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Do you have to pay for this licensing? Because that could be the reason why so little animals are licensed. When you have found an animal you can't let it die, but that doesn't meen you want to spend a lot of money to licens the animal or to give
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