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However, we recognise that, in different disciplines and subjects, different models or variations on a model will work best. That is why it is important to open up the debate with the research community.
Neither practice is better than the other, nor is one more dangerous than the other. When would be the best time to implant the microchip? The SSPCA recommends that the best time is when the dog is sold.
The difficulty that I have now is that what might be perceived today as the best outcome for Scotland might not be perceived as the best outcome for Scotland in six months' time.
However, it is important that we, as legislators, put in place the best framework to deal with it and we must ask ourselves whether amendment 148 is the best route that is open to us.