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lots of folks treat their pets like family and why not they're better

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conversationalists than anyone in my family and you don't even have to pay to

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send them to college but unlike or perhaps exactly like humans their

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Natural Curiosity can often lead them to stray too far from home without knowing

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how to get back now old school callers

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with the name and address of the owner were once the only real solution but now

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thank you technology many pet owners are opting to

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inject a microchip inside their pet as

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well but what are the benefits over just

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having information written on the collar I mean that seems simpler not to mention

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less painful well one of the biggest advantages of the microchip is that it's

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more or less a set it and forget it solution while callers can obviously get

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damaged come loose or even end up caught in a tree branch leading to a slow

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painful death by strangulation microchips are injected by a shockingly

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fat needle under the fatty layer of your animal's skin and since they have no

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moving components or batteries they typically don't need to be replaced as

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long as the animal lives just like the NFC pads that we showed off here the

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chip receives enough energy from the machine used to scan it that it doesn't

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need any kind of internal power source

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another reason they can just hang out under your pet pet skin indefinitely is

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that microchips are usually enclosed in an inert material such as glass so that

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your pet's body won't react to it negatively in fact some enclosures are

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even made of a special polymer that can induce tissue growth around the

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microchip helping to hold it in place which I wish they had done on my cat

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whose microchip migrated to his sternum forcing me to get a new one for his

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fancy cat door oh yeah there's another

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benefit I didn't cover yet a microchip reader equipped pet door lets you keep

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raccoons and Strays out of your house while saving you the headache of

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listening to your pets whining or scratching at the door mine can even be

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programmed to let both of my cats in but

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only one of them out and I'd imagine that future models will even add

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functionality like scheduling that can keep them in at night or especially

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around Halloween time that would be a useful one of course small RFID chips

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like the can't hold enough information on their

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own so instead each chip gets a unique

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ID number that is linked to contact information for both the owner and the

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regular veterinarian this ID number and contact info are registered with one of

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several different agencies meaning that the owner of a Lost Pet can be contacted

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quickly before a shelter has to spend money to house and feed your pet or

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Worse have it euthanized some databases

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will even even store your pet's medical history so if your pet gets lost

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whichever shelter picks it up can check to see if your furry friend has any

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special needs and at 30 to $60 for a

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microchip that's good for as long as your pet will live it's generally a

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pretty economical option for some long-term peace of mind but microchips

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aren't infallible for one thing microchipping technology hasn't been

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fully standardized yet meaning that not all shelters or veterinarians have the

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Cor direct scanners to read your pet's microchip there have even been isolated

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cases of animals being put to sleep because a shelter couldn't find a

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microchip when the real issue was that the chip was in fact present but their

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scanning equipment just wasn't compatible owners also need to be

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vigilant about contacting the appropriate microchip registry to update

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their pets information if they change addresses or contact information or if

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there's a significant change with their health issues as none of that is done

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automatically so for that reason many

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Humane Societies and Animal Welfare organizations recommend that use a

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microchip as a backup to a traditional caller with human readable contact

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information but the high reliability of pet microchip technology with a failure

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rate of less than one in a million means that many places are even also mandating

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that newly adopted pets be microchipped

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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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can they do that especially if you think that your pet is a Flight Risk because

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it resents your new robot dog or whatever microchips might have issues

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