Microchipping Your Pets: A Debate
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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
Many people lose their beloved pets every day and far too few are ever reunited. The stray animal population in the United States is out of control. A microchip is a permanent form of identification - it's the size of a grain of rice and implanted just under the pet's skin by a veterinarian.
Estimates are that somewhere around half of all dogs are microchipped in the U.S., yet less then ten percent of cats have a chip. Why are people reluctant to microchip their pets? There are different thoughts out there.
Particularly if you have a pet who is allowed outside or who could get outside, a microchip could mean you are one day reunited if that pet is lost, injured or stolen. If a good samaritan brings a pet they find hit by a car to the vet, the chip 'says' who the owner is. A lost pet can be helped to find the way back home.
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Contents at a Glance
- HELPING ME PROVE MY POINT!
- DISPROVE MY POINT (fine, be that way)
- The Coalition for Reuniting Pets and Families
- YOUR TURN! Have your say on the issue!
- Cat returns home 5 yrs after Katrina: Microchip brings Scrub home just in time for Christmas
- Donate to the ASPCA
- Pet ID Systems: The Pet Doctor PodCast Radio
- The Dog Who Rescues Cats: True Story of Ginny
- Microchip Implant in Pets
- Pet ID Systems: The Pet Doctor PodCast Radio
- Christian the Lion Reunion YouTube
- Amazon Search : Lost Pet
- Pet Mug & "I'm Innocent!" Puppy T-Shirt
- Ben / Shannon MP3s
- Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned
- Who Let The Dogs Out MP3
- PetLife Radio: Pet ID Options: Microchipping and More
- Returned Pets
- Books on Pet Loss from Amazon
- Pet Sympathy : Flowers
- Ceremonies for Loss of a Pet : Featured Lens
- Goodbye, My Friend / If You Remember Me : MP3s
- Reader Feedback
HELPING ME PROVE MY POINT!
Microchip Links: Opinions and Stories
Frequently asked questions about microchipping of animals from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
Addresses concerns such as the reports of cancer.
Addresses concerns such as the reports of cancer.
- ASPCA | Top 10 Things To Do Before You Bring Your New Cat Home
- Top 10 Things To Do Before You Bring Your New Cat Home
- RSPCA
- A microchip is recommended by the RSPCA as an effective way of permanently linking pets to their owners, increasing the chances of them being reunited if the animal is lost, stolen or strays.
Thousands of pets are lost every year and many are never reunited with their owners. The RSPCA believes that the best way to ensure a lost cat is found is to have it microchipped - implanted with a special microchip tag. - HomeAgain Helps Winn Again • Steve Dale's Pet World
- Steve Dale's Pet World: A Black Dog Radio Production
Home Archives Links - Microchip your cat for maximum safety and help fund feline health research
- After you have your cat microchipped, it takes just a few minutes to enroll his info online From now until the end of August, for every cat microchipped and enrolled in its service, the Home Again Pet Recovery Service has pledged to …
- Identify Your Cat - Tattoo or Microchip and Tags
- Losing a cat is heartbreaking, but with a microchip or tattoo along with a collar ID, your cat can be protected against loss or theft.
- Cat reunited with owner in Vero Beach thanks to technology, good Samaritan TCPalm.com
- VERO BEACH Cats are said to have nine lives, but a lucky feline may have found a 10th incarnation thanks to technology, a good Samaritan and the staff of the Cat Hospital of Vero Beach.
- Edinburgh Evening News
- Bumper's feline lucky after ride under van - IT seems like an extreme way to get a cheap holiday. "We have had cases before of cats escaping in vehicles before. There was a kitten who climbed into a car engine once from underneath and travelled from Gifford to Haddington, but unfortunately had to be put down because the burns were so bad. It is fairly common for cats to crawl into removal vans when people aren't looking, and it's not always the cat belonging to the people moving."
She said it highlighted the importance of having cats microchipped. - Good News For Pets | Welcome
- There are three different kinds of technologies used for microchips. These rely on three different frequencies. But microchipping your pet is not as easy as 1-2-3. That's because your shelter or veterinarian may be using a different standard of microchip than the next facility down the street. So if you select one brand of microchip it may be that the microchip scanner (or "reader") your local shelter uses is not compatible with the microchip your vet has implanted.
- Lost cat from Colorado found in New York - Yahoo! News
- Workers at the pet shelter traced Willow the cat back to a family in Colorado, thanks to a microchip embedded in the animal's neck that they checked with a scanner, said Richard Gentles, spokesman for Animal Care & Control of New York City.
DISPROVE MY POINT (fine, be that way)
Disagree? Put your money where your mouth is and tell us why.
The Controversy
Frequency
There is a lot of discussion currently about the frequency of the microchips themselves and the frequencies that the scanners can read. Efforts are in the works for 'universal scanners' that will be able to read all microchips, and to have all microchips the same frequency.
The United States tends to have microchips read on a frequency of 125 khz and have been commonly used in veterinary hospitals and shelters while in other countries it is different. Some other countries require microchipping. Should our scanners and microchips be of a global frequency range for all the people who travel with their pets?
Do Microchips Cause Cancer?
There have been some reports of tumors caused by microchips in laboratory mice and rats. I could find no studies that confirmed cancer caused by microchips in dogs, cats or other larger animals.
".... The majority of these mice and rats were being used for cancer studies when the tumors were found, and the rat and mice strains used in the studies are known to be more likely to develop cancer. Tumors associated with microchips in two dogs were reported, but in at least one of these dogs the tumor could not be directly linked to the microchip itself (and may have been caused by something else)." Excerpted Frequently asked questions about microchipping of animals from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
My pets wear collars and rarely go outside. Why do they need it?
Other things such as tags on collars and tattooing are positive ways of identifying your pet if lost. A chip cannot come off, it cannot blur over time.
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The Coalition for Reuniting Pets and Families
A broad based animal welfare coalition proposing a uniform standard for microchip frequencies
The Coalition is asking that chip and scanner manufacturers and marketers permit the use of a scanner that can read all microchips, and that such a scanner be made readily available to shelters, animal control officers and veterinarians throughout the country.
In addition, the Coalition is calling for the establishment of an easily updated national database of microchipped pets and an ongoing pet owner education effort about the need for registering chipped pets and continuing to use external IDs (collar and tags) to complement the chips.
What are the Coalition's next steps?
The Iams Company recently submitted a proposal to donate 30,000 scanners capable of reading all chips to shelters, animal control officers and veterinary clinics throughout the United States. The donation, valued at $5 million, would give these organizations the
tools they need to effectively reunite lost pets and their owners. The Iams offer - which was applauded by the Coalition - is dependent on agreement by all current companion animal microchip manufacturers and distributors to embrace the mass
scanner distribution. -- from The Coalition's Fact Sheet
More information on their efforts can be found at their web site ReadAllChips
Article on a Legislation Promoting Open Pet Microchip Technology Where All Scanners Read All Chips
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The Cost
We shouldn't look at our pets as being disposable pieces of property. They're really parts of the family, they depend on us and contribute to our well being in different ways.
Just like with our own health, there are things we can do to maintain and regularly check their health so that we can lessen the chances of a major illness happening, or we can catch something in the early stages in a regular check-up. This can cut down on our pet's suffering and on cost to us.
"Is the procedure to implant the microchip expensive?
"While the price can vary from one veterinarian to another, implanting the microchip costs around $45. This is a one-time fee; the microchip does not need maintenance or replacement. In addition, there is an annual fee of $14.99 for your pet's HomeAgain membership." -- from the HomeAgain web site
There is also a responsibility for the owner to update the microchip company when you move to make sure they know the pet's current address. This is particularly important if your pet doesn't wear a collar with tags that show his or her current address. Even if the pet wears tags, there is the chance that if he or she got lost, the collar could somehow be removed or lost.
Information on microchipping, from its safety and procedures used to fees can be obtained from your veterinarian. Many vet clinics provide the service at a reduced rate for those who are in need.
"Although the United States currently has no country-wide laws on pet identification, some countries do. The pilot program of the Passport Scheme in the U.K. involves the microchipping of pets coming in or returning to the country, to avoid the mandatory six month quarantine. This is an offshoot of the larger decision on microchipping of "foreign pets" placed on the market in member countries of the Commission of European Communities." -- From All Cats Need An Identity article About.com
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YOUR TURN! Have your say on the issue!
Microchipping your pets is the responsible thing for a pet owner to do
Yes, you're right!
jeffn516 says:
Definitely. I can't imagine that there are many people strongly opposed to this.
jeffn516 says:
I haven't found anyone strongly against microchipping. For me, it's a no brainer. Collars fall off at the oddest times. Microchipping is an inexpensive way of reducing the chance that you'll never see your lost pet again. Thanks!
johnfn says:
Absolutely!
No way, Monkeybrain!
Cat returns home 5 yrs after Katrina: Microchip brings Scrub home just in time for Christmas
Biloxi, Miss. Five years after Scrub failed to return home one hot, muggy, post-Katrina night, he's back with battle scars, a wild side that's new and his old habit of sleeping underneath a blanket on somebody's bed.
Jennifer Noble of Biloxi thought the Humane Society of South Mississippi had the wrong cat as she listened last week to a message left on her husband's office answering machine.
The message said they had a pet brought in with her information on his microchip. She had given away two kittens -- failed attempts to replace Scrub -- and figured the message was about one of those.
"'Do you have a gray and white cat?'" Noble said a humane society employee asked when she returned the call. Scrub is a Russian blue and tabby, mostly gray with white markings. The other cats had been gray.
"You have my cat! Oh my gosh!" she remembers saying. "That cat has been missing for five years!"
She said the employee replied, "'Oh my gosh. Well, Merry Christmas!'"
"This is the power of microchipping," humane society Director Tara High said. "There is no other way that cat would have found its family. This is a very dramatic story with a wonderful ending."
Cat returns home 5 years after Katrina Read the entire article in the December 2010 Herald Online
Jennifer Noble of Biloxi thought the Humane Society of South Mississippi had the wrong cat as she listened last week to a message left on her husband's office answering machine.
The message said they had a pet brought in with her information on his microchip. She had given away two kittens -- failed attempts to replace Scrub -- and figured the message was about one of those.
"'Do you have a gray and white cat?'" Noble said a humane society employee asked when she returned the call. Scrub is a Russian blue and tabby, mostly gray with white markings. The other cats had been gray.
"You have my cat! Oh my gosh!" she remembers saying. "That cat has been missing for five years!"
She said the employee replied, "'Oh my gosh. Well, Merry Christmas!'"
"This is the power of microchipping," humane society Director Tara High said. "There is no other way that cat would have found its family. This is a very dramatic story with a wonderful ending."
Cat returns home 5 years after Katrina Read the entire article in the December 2010 Herald Online
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Pet ID Systems: The Pet Doctor PodCast Radio
More Than Just an Identification Tag!
If you have had pets in your lifetime, you have undoubtedly shared the fear of losing them to the great outdoors-an innocent mistake like leaving the door ajar can leave your family devastated and your pets unprotected on the streets. 'Whose Doggie Is That in the Window?'
Dogs often wear identification tags and if the loose dog permits a kind stranger to get close enough to read the tag, your pet could be in luck but that is not always the case. Tags and collars can be lost and information on tags may not be current- especially in cases of emergency evacuations- when pets are separated from their owners and owners are forced to leave the location on the pet tag.
As for cats, they do not often wear id collars- as collars would interfere with their playing and bird catching and could be dangerous. Mr. Gary MacPhee, director and general manager of HomeAgain, a microchip company for pets discusses everything there is to know about pet identification systems with us and shares a great reunion audio of Gypsy, the miracle dog, returned home from over 500 miles with the help of her HomeAgain microchip!
Dogs often wear identification tags and if the loose dog permits a kind stranger to get close enough to read the tag, your pet could be in luck but that is not always the case. Tags and collars can be lost and information on tags may not be current- especially in cases of emergency evacuations- when pets are separated from their owners and owners are forced to leave the location on the pet tag.
As for cats, they do not often wear id collars- as collars would interfere with their playing and bird catching and could be dangerous. Mr. Gary MacPhee, director and general manager of HomeAgain, a microchip company for pets discusses everything there is to know about pet identification systems with us and shares a great reunion audio of Gypsy, the miracle dog, returned home from over 500 miles with the help of her HomeAgain microchip!
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Microchip Implant in Pets
Wikipedia Info
The use of externally attached microchip devices such as RFID enabled ear tags (piercings rather than implants) is another, related method commonly used for identifying farm and ranch animals other than horses. In some cases the external microchips may be readable on the same scanner as the implanted style.
Uses and benefits
Microchips have been particularly useful in the return of lost pets. They can also assist where the ownership of an animal is in dispute.
Animal shelters and animal control centers benefit using microchip identification products by more quickly and efficiently returning pets to their owners. When a pet can be quickly matched to its owner, the shelter avoids the expense of housing, feeding, providing medical care, and outplacing or euthanizing the pet. Microchipping is becoming increasingly standard at shelters: many require all outplaced animals to receive a microchip, and provide the service as part of the adoption package. Animal control officers are trained and equipped to scan animals.
In addition to shelters and veterinarians, microchips are used by kennels, breeders, brokers, trainers, registries, rescue groups, humane societies, clinics, farms, stables, animal clubs and associations, researchers and pet stores.
Several countries require a microchip when importing an animal to prove that the animal and the vaccination record match. Microchip tagging may also be required for CITES-regulated international trade in certain rare animals; for example, Asian Arowana are so tagged, in order to ensure that only captive-bred fish are imported.
Read the rest of the article on Wikipedia
Pet ID Systems: The Pet Doctor PodCast Radio
More Than Just an Identification Tag!
If you have had pets in your lifetime, you have undoubtedly shared the fear of losing them to the great outdoors-an innocent mistake like leaving the door ajar can leave your family devastated and your pets unprotected on the streets. 'Whose Doggie Is That in the Window?'
Dogs often wear identification tags and if the loose dog permits a kind stranger to get close enough to read the tag, your pet could be in luck but that is not always the case. Tags and collars can be lost and information on tags may not be current- especially in cases of emergency evacuations- when pets are separated from their owners and owners are forced to leave the location on the pet tag.
As for cats, they do not often wear id collars- as collars would interfere with their playing and bird catching and could be dangerous. Mr. Gary MacPhee, director and general manager of HomeAgain, a microchip company for pets discusses everything there is to know about pet identification systems with us and shares a great reunion audio of Gypsy, the miracle dog, returned home from over 500 miles with the help of her HomeAgain microchip!
Dogs often wear identification tags and if the loose dog permits a kind stranger to get close enough to read the tag, your pet could be in luck but that is not always the case. Tags and collars can be lost and information on tags may not be current- especially in cases of emergency evacuations- when pets are separated from their owners and owners are forced to leave the location on the pet tag.
As for cats, they do not often wear id collars- as collars would interfere with their playing and bird catching and could be dangerous. Mr. Gary MacPhee, director and general manager of HomeAgain, a microchip company for pets discusses everything there is to know about pet identification systems with us and shares a great reunion audio of Gypsy, the miracle dog, returned home from over 500 miles with the help of her HomeAgain microchip!
- PetLifeRadio - Listen to The Pet Doctor PodCast- Pet Identification Systems- More Than Just an ID Tag!.... Pet Life Radio
- Mr. Gary McPhee, director and general manager of HomeAgain, a microchip company for pets discusses everything there is to know about pet identification systems with us and shares a great reunion audio of Gypsy, the miracle dog, returned home from over 500 miles with the help of her HomeAgain microchip....
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Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned
Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to rescue lost animals and reunite them with their owners.
Over two hundred stories with accompanying photos describe dramatic and challenging rescue cases with details about the rescues, the examinations, treatment, and follow-up care by the selfless volunteers who worked to save beloved best friends.
From the Inside Flap
After Hurricane Katrina hit, animal rescuers found this handwritten note taped to an apartment door in a building from which residents had been forced to evacuate without their pets:
Our names are Fifi and Cici. We are both cats, one boy, one girl.
Please take us to a shelter. Our doctors are located at the Cat Practice.
If you find us, we are in the restroom. We have enough food to last us 5 days.
Please contact our parents, Daryl and Tasha, who love and adore us very much, at [and the phone numbers were given].
Please, we need your help!
Volunteer rescuers found the note and the cats a week later. Even though it was 11:00 at night, they called the number. Through her sobs, a grateful Tasha said, "It's my birthday. It couldn't be a more perfect gift."
As this book details, most people did everything they could to give their beloved pets a chance to survive in the chaos after Katrina. Thanks to the efforts of organizations and volunteers from all over the country, it's estimated that approximately 15,000 animals were rescued.
The staff and volunteers at the animal refuge facilities set up by Best Friends Animal Societyhelped to rescue between 5,000 and 7,000 terrified, abandoned animals and reunited some 1,500 pets with their people, most of whom had lost everything. This book details the rescues, the nonstop care given at the shelters, the reunions, the adoptions, the triumphs, and the tragedies. It celebrates the powerful bonds between pets and their people and those that develop between strangers who despite all kinds of obstacles, share an unwavering commitment to a common cause.
In addition to Fifi and Cici, you'll read about:
Himie, a Rottweiler found with a plastic bottle attached to his collar holding a note and his eye medicine; Himie was reunited with his owner
Tenderfoot, a Black Labrador puppy whose foot pads were burned off by the toxic sludge; he was treated for weeks and adopted
Bubba, a longhaired gray cat whose displaced owner drove for ten hours in a rented car to retrieve his cat-all he had left after Katrina
Red, a partially paralyzed Staffordshire Terrier who was hospitalized for about three months, fitted with a "wheelchair," and eventually adopted
And many more ...
The lessons learned resulted in a Law Protecting our beloved pets.
Just weeks before the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in August 2006, the plight of thousands of New Orleans residents and their pets led to a new federal law-the Pets Evacuation and Transporta-tion Standards (Pets) Act-that requires local and state governments to include household pets in their evacuation plans.
It also provides federal funding for pet-friendly refugee shelters. Because of the dire experiences of Hurricane Katrina, animal owners will not have to choose between saving their own lives or remaining in a disaster-ravaged area with their pets, only to have to abandon the pets later.
-From Pawprints of Katrina
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to rescue lost animals and reunite them with their owners.
Over two hundred stories with accompanying photos describe dramatic and challenging rescue cases with details about the rescues, the examinations, treatment, and follow-up care by the selfless volunteers who worked to save beloved best friends.
From the Inside Flap
After Hurricane Katrina hit, animal rescuers found this handwritten note taped to an apartment door in a building from which residents had been forced to evacuate without their pets:
Our names are Fifi and Cici. We are both cats, one boy, one girl.
Please take us to a shelter. Our doctors are located at the Cat Practice.
If you find us, we are in the restroom. We have enough food to last us 5 days.
Please contact our parents, Daryl and Tasha, who love and adore us very much, at [and the phone numbers were given].
Please, we need your help!
Volunteer rescuers found the note and the cats a week later. Even though it was 11:00 at night, they called the number. Through her sobs, a grateful Tasha said, "It's my birthday. It couldn't be a more perfect gift."
As this book details, most people did everything they could to give their beloved pets a chance to survive in the chaos after Katrina. Thanks to the efforts of organizations and volunteers from all over the country, it's estimated that approximately 15,000 animals were rescued.
The staff and volunteers at the animal refuge facilities set up by Best Friends Animal Societyhelped to rescue between 5,000 and 7,000 terrified, abandoned animals and reunited some 1,500 pets with their people, most of whom had lost everything. This book details the rescues, the nonstop care given at the shelters, the reunions, the adoptions, the triumphs, and the tragedies. It celebrates the powerful bonds between pets and their people and those that develop between strangers who despite all kinds of obstacles, share an unwavering commitment to a common cause.
In addition to Fifi and Cici, you'll read about:
Himie, a Rottweiler found with a plastic bottle attached to his collar holding a note and his eye medicine; Himie was reunited with his owner
Tenderfoot, a Black Labrador puppy whose foot pads were burned off by the toxic sludge; he was treated for weeks and adopted
Bubba, a longhaired gray cat whose displaced owner drove for ten hours in a rented car to retrieve his cat-all he had left after Katrina
Red, a partially paralyzed Staffordshire Terrier who was hospitalized for about three months, fitted with a "wheelchair," and eventually adopted
And many more ...
The lessons learned resulted in a Law Protecting our beloved pets.
Just weeks before the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in August 2006, the plight of thousands of New Orleans residents and their pets led to a new federal law-the Pets Evacuation and Transporta-tion Standards (Pets) Act-that requires local and state governments to include household pets in their evacuation plans.
It also provides federal funding for pet-friendly refugee shelters. Because of the dire experiences of Hurricane Katrina, animal owners will not have to choose between saving their own lives or remaining in a disaster-ravaged area with their pets, only to have to abandon the pets later.
-From Pawprints of Katrina
Information on Microchip Advances
Pet microchip companies square off in a scientific "scan-off"
- Dogtime.com's Blog : Pet microchip companies square off in a scientific "scan-off"
- This is a very good post with recent information about what's happening to develop a scanning standard.
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PetLife Radio: Pet ID Options: Microchipping and More
Travel Tails: Pet Life Radio PodCast, ID for Travel...
Ever get confused about how to best ID your dog in case you get separated while you are traveling together? Should you micro-chip, should you utilize a database maintenance system, how about just a plain ol' id tag?
Listen as Janine talks with three industry experts and compares services and costs of three id tag companies; idtag.com, tags4tails, and 1-800 help 4 Pets.
If you have any questions or suggestions on topics you would like to see covered about traveling with your dog please email janine@petliferadio.com
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If you have any questions or suggestions on topics you would like to see covered about traveling with your dog please email janine@petliferadio.com
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Returned Pets
According to the National Council on Pet Population Study & Policy (NCPPSP), less than 2 percent of cats & only 15 to 20 percent of dogs are returned to their owners.
Most of these were identified with tags, tattoos or microchips.
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bloomingrose
Feb 15, 2012 @ 3:31 am | delete
- Liked this lens very much. I do have some concerns about possible cancer connections to chipping, your reassurances helped some. But since Buckwheat's chip brought him back to us after he ran away - it is a no-brainer. Angel blessed.
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SureFlap
Mar 30, 2011 @ 9:35 am | delete
- Thanks for this great lens about microchipping. Microchipping a pet is one of the most effective forms of pet identification and many cats are returned to their owners thanks to this method.
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