lots of folks treat their pets like family and why not they're better
conversationalists than anyone in my family and you don't even have to pay to
send them to college but unlike or perhaps exactly like humans their
Natural Curiosity can often lead them to stray too far from home without knowing
how to get back now old school callers
with the name and address of the owner were once the only real solution but now
thank you technology many pet owners are opting to
inject a microchip inside their pet as
well but what are the benefits over just
having information written on the collar I mean that seems simpler not to mention
less painful well one of the biggest advantages of the microchip is that it's
more or less a set it and forget it solution while callers can obviously get
damaged come loose or even end up caught in a tree branch leading to a slow
painful death by strangulation microchips are injected by a shockingly
fat needle under the fatty layer of your animal's skin and since they have no
moving components or batteries they typically don't need to be replaced as
long as the animal lives just like the NFC pads that we showed off here the
chip receives enough energy from the machine used to scan it that it doesn't
need any kind of internal power source
another reason they can just hang out under your pet pet skin indefinitely is
that microchips are usually enclosed in an inert material such as glass so that
your pet's body won't react to it negatively in fact some enclosures are
even made of a special polymer that can induce tissue growth around the
microchip helping to hold it in place which I wish they had done on my cat
whose microchip migrated to his sternum forcing me to get a new one for his
fancy cat door oh yeah there's another
benefit I didn't cover yet a microchip reader equipped pet door lets you keep
raccoons and Strays out of your house while saving you the headache of
listening to your pets whining or scratching at the door mine can even be
programmed to let both of my cats in but
only one of them out and I'd imagine that future models will even add
functionality like scheduling that can keep them in at night or especially
around Halloween time that would be a useful one of course small RFID chips
like the can't hold enough information on their
own so instead each chip gets a unique
ID number that is linked to contact information for both the owner and the
regular veterinarian this ID number and contact info are registered with one of
several different agencies meaning that the owner of a Lost Pet can be contacted
quickly before a shelter has to spend money to house and feed your pet or
Worse have it euthanized some databases
will even even store your pet's medical history so if your pet gets lost
whichever shelter picks it up can check to see if your furry friend has any
special needs and at 30 to $60 for a
microchip that's good for as long as your pet will live it's generally a
pretty economical option for some long-term peace of mind but microchips
aren't infallible for one thing microchipping technology hasn't been
fully standardized yet meaning that not all shelters or veterinarians have the
Cor direct scanners to read your pet's microchip there have even been isolated
cases of animals being put to sleep because a shelter couldn't find a
microchip when the real issue was that the chip was in fact present but their
scanning equipment just wasn't compatible owners also need to be
vigilant about contacting the appropriate microchip registry to update
their pets information if they change addresses or contact information or if
there's a significant change with their health issues as none of that is done
automatically so for that reason many
Humane Societies and Animal Welfare organizations recommend that use a
microchip as a backup to a traditional caller with human readable contact
information but the high reliability of pet microchip technology with a failure
rate of less than one in a million means that many places are even also mandating
that newly adopted pets be microchipped
so be sure to have this done if you have a dog or a cat or a I don't know Turtle
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