Pet IDs will help control diseases and combat abuse, in addition to preventing abandoned animals and making it easier to locate missing animals
Domestic dogs and cats from all over Brazil will be able to have an identity card from January 2025. The president (PT) sanctioned the law that creates the National Registry of Domestic Animals. The pets’ ID will help control diseases and combat abuse. It can also prevent abandoned animals and make it easier to locate missing animals. The new tool will assign a unique and non-transferable identity number to dogs and cats valid throughout the national territory. The system is in the final testing phase. Registration, free of charge, will be done via the Gov.br. platform, via the internet.
To do this, the guardian must provide personal information, such as name, ID, CPF and address, as well as data about the pet, such as breed, age, history of illnesses and vaccinations. The person responsible will be subject to sanctions that are yet to be defined in case of providing erroneous information. The platform will issue a digital card with the animal’s photo and a QR Code, which can be printed and attached to the pet’s collar. “An important advance in the fight against animal abuse and abandonment, and also for the control of zoonoses”, said the president in his profile on X. Lula and first lady Janja da Silva are guardians of three dogs.
According to the Ministry of the Environment, responsible for creating the registry, membership will only be mandatory for those who use federal resources for activities such as castration and chipping. In other cases, it will be voluntary, but there will be campaigns to encourage adherence. There will be no fee or tax charged on pet ownership. Initially, it will not be mandatory to place a chip on the animal, but this information must be included in the registration if the pet has a chip. Guardians must also update the information whenever there are changes, such as sale, donation or death of the animal. The registration will not apply to agricultural production animals.
According to the law, which must still be regulated, the Union must share the data with the States and municipalities, as the pets will be registered in the cities where they live with their guardians. According to a survey carried out by the Companion Animals Commission (Comac) of the National Union of the Animal Health Products Industry (Sindan), based on the ‘Radar Pet 2020’ survey, that year, in Brazil, there were more than 37 million pets. households with a pet, which could be dogs or cats.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
Published by Matheus Lopes
