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A dog being chipped. More than one million dog owners face a £500 fine if they fail to microchip their dogs ahead of a Government deadline in just one month's time.Nearly 1.5 million of an estimated 8.5 million dogs in the UK aren't tagged with details about their owners and it's costing £57 million a year to deal with. Pet owners only have until 6 April to get the tiny chip inserted under their animal's skin or they could be forced to cough up.According to a study by pet insurers Animal Friends, 26 per cent of owners have one or more dogs who are not registered on government approved databases. One in ten of these owners say they don't need to be as their dog never leaves their side and seven percent say it's unnecessary as their pet wears a collar.Other owners were worried about data security - with 10 percent saying they feared a chip in their dog could track their movements.And up to 12 per cent of owners don't know whether their dog is microchipped at all.The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations 2014 orders that from April 2016, all dog owners must have their animals microchipped with their details on a reunification database.The law is set to reduce the number of dogs that need to be "kenneled, rehomed or put down because their keepers cannot be traced". Previously, microchipping pets has been voluntary since the introduction of the technology 20 years ago.

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