Hundreds of stray pets who are picked up monthly with no microchip, no LA County license, will never make it home, but will be euthanized in the County shelters.

Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care (DACC) has pitiful sparse public Outreach to inform the general Public. It must do a thousand times more.

We propose having LA County DACC to buy thousands of huge vinyl printed banners 3 ft x 5 ft (like election campaigns are posted on fences all over now), containing attractive bullet points about falls County animal laws for rabies, microchip, spay and neuter and licensing, and require posting the banners prominently on the plate glass windows inside all businesses that sell pet food, pet supplies, or do pet grooming, boarding, petwalking, and all veterinarian practices, as an experimental "pilot program," starting in the Antelope Valley. Pet owners go there! They will see it! There's the perfect place to tell them this vital information:

By age 4 months, all cats and dogs are required by law to have Microchip, Rabies vaccination, and County Pet License on a collar at all times, to protect the pet and the public.

Before cats and dogs become fertile and able to get pregnant, they all must be spayed and neutered with a Veterinarian certificate. That also gives them a permanent discount on their annual pet license tag renewals.

Rabies vaccinations must be repeated every 1 year or 3-year special shots, and cat and dog licenses must be renewed for1 year or 3 years, depending on the length of Rabies shots.

And list all strongly suggested disease prevention vaccinations for kittens and puppies, and for later vaccinations for adult cats and dogs.

County DACC compliance and enforcement officers can visit homes with lapsed licenses and impose fees and fines and require all procedures done -- the same as for pets that find themselves dropped at the animal pound.

The County Supervisors must pass a County ordinance requiring business licensees that sell pet food and pet supplies, pet walking, boarding or grooming, where owners go, to post these banners inside their front windows prominently for 2 years to 5 years. Every year we can see if it increases compliance by owners and reduces the numbers of unwanted and unidentifiable strays and cuts down the huge population of unwanted pet litters.

Please sign here see if you agree. We have a mock-up in a comment on NextDoor app for Palmdale and will post it here soon.

Thank you for caring about this sweet defenseless pets and now we have an opportunity to make sure every pet owner knows what is required of them.