PERMANENT PET IDENTIFICATION METHODS:  MICROCHIP IMPLANTS

To gain the best understanding of microchipping, and how important it is that its incidence becomes the rule rather than the exception, see Save Our Strays

Learn about microchipping from:

	Veterinarians & Animal Hospitals:  Note that while some of these seem to be espousing the particular microchip their business has selected to implant, most of what they say about one microchip applies to its competitors, as well. Amer Vet Medicine Assn VIP Vaccine Scottsville Vet Adoptions Wheat Ridge Anim Hosp Kingsbury Animal Hosp Olney Sandy Spring Vet Hosp Ulladulla Vet Hosp Don Wilson, DVM Dr Jim Rummel Indian Hills Anim Clinic
	Animal Advocate Organizations:   American Humane Association Volunteers for Animal Welfare Ventura County Animal Regulation Collier County Humane Society Mission Valley Animal Shelter Cats Protection League (UK) Toronto Humane Society Edmondton SPCA Pet Helpers NCPetPlace
	Pet-Related Websites:   Dog Owners Guide Dirt Dog Pets Magazine Winged Wisdom Pet Bird Magazine
	Breed-Specific Websites: Dachsund Network Maltese Only Vizsla Dogs
	General Interest Periodicals & News Sites:   BBC Online USA Weekend Palo Alto Wkly Beloit Daily News Ratite Encyclopedia Mercury Center Sidney Morning Herald Lexington Herald-Leader Lincoln Star-Journal

Reasons to choose microchipping:  Keeping in mind that all pets do need one or another form of permanent identification, consider first that microchipping is both the newer and the more high tech of the two methods.  

The rest of the world is going high tech, so why not pet identification?  Every day, a manual method of doing something is replaced by a high tech method, and can you guess the reason? Generally, the high tech method is going to have some distinct advantages; pet microchipping is no exception to this rule.  

And microchipping is already required in some places now, such as Hickam AFB in Hawaii for all pets, and in Novato CA, for all cats.

What to watch for in considering microchipping:  While there are some disadvantages to microchipping, if you review them you'll see that they are all resolvable problems that will go away in time, when microchipping has really caught on.  The answer is not to abandon microchipping simply because it hasn't already caught on, but to help it catch on by participating. 

Fortunately, municipalities such as Seattle and Los Angeles and individual shelters & humane societies such as Benton Franklin, Sonoma County and Quinte are beginning now to include microchipping in the cost of adopting their pets.

Vendor Home Pages (microchip manufacturing companies):

• HomeAgain by Schering-Plough, formerly Destron-Fearing); registry is AKC CAR
• AVIDID (see here too) * AVID Canada; registry is Pettrac
• Anitech (Canada); registry is PetNet  (this looks like an older Pet Net webpage)
• The Belgian Electronic ID & Tracking System For Animals
• I've found these websites but I'm not sure they're current:  Trovan  *  InfoPet 

Saved by the Chip - Success Stories: Major's Mission Stories * CAR Program Stories * Anitech Stories * Ruby's Story * Wilbur * Casper * Tia * Charlie * Charley * Mollie

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