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Identification

The obligation to identify

The identification of domestic animals by tattoo or microchip is obligatory. The modalities of application are represented mentioned below:

At the dogs:

For all dogs of more than 4 months old and been born after January 8th, 1999

For the dogs been born before January 8th, 1999, the obligation of identification is applied:

at the time of cession (even free)
in the departments which would be declared contaminated by rage (no nowadays) and with antirabique vaccination (Moselle)
to participate in competitions and exhibitions
for stays in campings and holiday centres
for any exit except borders of Continental France (therefore also towards Corsica or DOM-TOM)
for the dangerous said dogs according to the law of 1999

At the Cats:

  • at the time of cession (even free)
  • in the departments which would be declared contaminated by rage (no nowadays) and with antirabique vaccination (Moselle)
  • to participate in competitions and exhibitions
  • for stays in campings and holiday centres
  • for any exit except borders of Continental France (therefore also towards Corsica or DOM-TOM)

Attention for all identified animals, it is necessary to inform the central file of any change of situation of the animal as:

  • owner's change
  • move
  • decease

Means to identify:

1. Tattoo

Played or in the ear or inside the thigh, it requires an anaesthesia of the animal. His advantage is that he can be read by everybody unfortunately it is often difficult to read with certainty figures and letters at the end of some years. THIS type d (identification will not be any more acknowledged beyond 2012.

2. Identification by microchip

This technology introduces numerous advantages: it consists of injection under the skin of your animal, a microchip of the size of a grain of rice. The flea is encoded with a number in 15 figures unique. This figure can be read by means of a specific reader by a veterinary surgeon but also by other persons as the shelter, firefighters, a customhouse.

The advantages of electronic identification are:

  • his fastness (as an injection)
  • the absence of anaesthesia and pain
  • aestheticism
  • the permanence in time (reading is always made as well after 10 years)

it is international, the even abroad the flea will be able to be read and the identified animal.