Adopting a Dog

In two cities I lived in, you just need to look in the phone book (say, under city of Dallas) and make a telephone call or two to find the right place. In my new city, it turns out dogs in Albuquerque pay their license and get tags somewhere in Texas.

Do you have a Dallas phonebook? Start with the City pages, and look under Animal Control or similar. Or even general information, but that number may tend to be busy.

I don't believe dogs are like cars. You don't need a title to prove you own pet and dog's don't have VIN numbers like cars either.

When I moved to NYC and into the apartment with my friend Eurodiva, she had a husky for 4 years (at that time) and never registered the dog with the city.

I registered the dog but the city didn't need any other information other then contact information (address, phone,...) and rabies shot information. The form never asked for any other information and the city never called about where the dog came from, who previously owned it, or why it wasn't registered in the first place. They just want the licensing fee and the knowledge that you're obeying the rabies shot law.

Check the net, most cities have online pet registries.

http://dallasanimalservices.org/license_online.html

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Register the dog here:
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