Mass registration?

I know you can 'register' your horses on the Horse Council website but maybe what we need is the AHC to register every horse in the country, and maybe microchipping is the way to go. I don't think it would affect people buying or selling horses tax wise unless one had a registered business. Most recreational horse owners even small time breeders don't earn enough from their horses to pay taxes anyway and horses are GST free if sold privately. If all horses were reg with the one body and microchipped, there would be a dramatic reduction in horse thefts, movement could be traced easily in the event of another outbreak of EI or similar.maybe the horse council ( which I had never heard of before all this happened) could be more pro-active and organise this. I think the fed govt is totally resposible for the outbreak of EI and it could easily afford to pay the Horse Council costs and the costs to the horse owners to register and microchip their horses.

I agree with the other bloggers who say John Howard's Govt is responsible and acting like an ostrich with its head in the sand and hoping it will all just go away. Well IT WON'T! Just remenber Mr Howard ther will be an election soon and there are many thousands of voters who own horses!

Time to be VERY ANGRY!!!

Penelope