Canyon County, ID Animal Ordinances: Microchipping (2026)

Section 03-05-11, part of the Canyon County Animal Control Regulations of 2011 (Ord. 11-010, 9-29-2011), sets the baseline: every canine in the county must wear a substantial, durable collar with ownership information securely attached at all times. The same section then exempts a dog from that collar-and-tag duty if it carries an implanted microchip containing the same ownership information. Section 03-05-05's definitions confirm the exemption is written for canines specifically, defining "microchip" as an integrated circuit implanted subcutaneously in the flesh of a canine; the county sets no parallel microchip or collar rule for cats.

The microchip substitution is narrow: it only replaces the collar-and-tag ownership marker, not the county's separate rabies-vaccination duty in § 03-05-13(7), which still requires proof of a current rabies shot for any dog or cat over three months old. Violations of the animal control article, including a missing collar-and-tag on a non-chipped dog, are enforced by the sheriff's deputized animal control officers under § 03-05-07 through the article's uniform-citation process at § 03-05-25. As with the rest of Chapter 3, Article 5, this rule applies only within unincorporated Canyon County, not inside Caldwell, Nampa or the county's other incorporated cities, which run their own animal codes.