Quick trivia: which U.S. city is credited with the first dog license program? Either way, that little tag still matters here — current licensing lets us verify rabies status and call owners in under five minutes at intake, which is why we push for 100% compliance.
NYC, 1894 gets the nod, though people sometimes cite Boston’s earlier dog tax and muddle it. > under five minutes at intake, which is why we push for Agree — QR-coded tags that ping our license DB cut us to about 3 minutes, same idea.
And i’ve always seen NYC 1894 for the first city program, but MA towns were licensing under a statewide law in the 1860s, so it depends on what you count as “first.” Since that tag gets you under five minutes at intake, I’d push a live clerk-database lookup that auto-sends owner info to the ACO en route. Anyone wired license data into CAD, @kliu88?