According to the United Daily News, the Taipei Municipal Institute for Animal Health issued 12 tickets for the first time, ranging between NT$3,000 and NT$13,000, to offenders of the new regulations.

Yen Yi-fung, director of the institute, was cited by the newspaper as saying that 14 other dog owners could be fined soon if they fail to quickly contact authorities.

There have been 164,000 pet registrations so far in Taipei, while local veterinarians have inoculated more than 50,000 animals this year, the paper said.

As pet registration in the capital only costs NT$250, a price far lower than those in the other cities, many pet owners come from outside of Taipei to have their pets implanted with the chips that carry ownership data.

The Cabinet’s Council of Agriculture announced last June that the price of pet registration in the other cities would also be reduced to NT$250.

A woman, surnamed Liu, reportedly had a violent argument on Sept. 3 with two city workers in charge of catching stray dogs in Wanhua District. The newspaper reported that she hit the workers with her helmet after the latter mistook her pet for a stray dog.

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