It's the final year for the dog licensing program in the City of Woodstock.
WOODSTOCK - The City of Woodstock is getting rid of the dog licensing program starting next year.
Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch says the main reason to have a licensing program is to help find lost dogs.
"What we have found is that with microchipping and new technologies that many individuals take care of that themselves. We also saw with census data is not everyone in the Friendly City with a dog had been participating in the mandatory dog licensing program."
In 2019, the City suffered a cyber attack and the database of the dog licensing program was impacted. Birtch says the increased expense in running the program was also a factor.
"Part of the reason that council decided to end the licensing the program is that the costs maintaining it were starting to increase and we would need some new software and resources to maintain it."
The City will be contacting pet owners this Fall to let them know the program is ending. Pet owners are still required to identify their dogs in some way, whether that's a microchip or a personalized tag but the City won't be selling them.
In the City of Woodstock, each family is allowed to have up to a maximum of 5 pets.

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