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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A Brazilian state is offering to implant electronic microchips in thousands of pit bulls this year, allowing dog owners to track their pets and enabling the government to punish those whose dogs are involved in attacks, an official said Wednesday.
An estimated 6,000 pit bulls in Belo Horizonte, some 270 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, will have the chips inserted near their spines allowing their movements to be tracked, said city health department official Maria do Carmo de Araujo Ramos, who is overseeing the program in the city, the capital of Minas Gerais state.
Ramos said the chips would help dog owners find lost pets while helping authorities enforce the law.
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