Posted by admin | Posted in Dog Care Tips | Posted on 07-09-2009
Tags: cancer, health, medicine, rfid, verichip
Microchips and Your Dog
The method of microchip identification for your pet's regular became popular for pet owners after AKC approved this method of identification. The American Kennel Club decided that it was necessary to be another way to keep track of lost animals with an identification standing both in the same way that zoologists have been using in the field for years. The AKC also created a program called Companion Animal Recovery began to educate the public about the use of this new technology to find lost pets and stolen as quickly and safely as possible.
The benefits to "chop" your dogs are many. Once the microchip is inserted under the skin that is there for life. The chip is active only when scanned, so there is no continuous computer parts go on your animal and each is equipped with a cover for anti-immigrant not to go around in the body. Each tab contains information individual, so what is encoded in the chip remains the same once inside your dog. Also, within each chip is an antenna and a capacitor within a glass tube very small. The three components are what make the chips work.
Now there are two main manufacturers of microchip: AVID and Schering-Plough Animal Health. The problem with this is that both companies have developed chips that can only be read by scanners of your brand. So, say you have an AVID chip on your puppy, but are discovered by the shelter that has a chip Schering-Plough, and vice versa. What this may mean is that your puppy will not be identified with a microchip the shelter unless it employs the use of both types of scanners. For this reason it is suggested that your pet should have a microchip, tattoo and use a regular collar with identification tags at all times.
There is another downside to going the route of microchips as a means to identify his lost dog. Before the microchip was popularized its use by the AKC had not have produced a large study of the effects on the dogs in the use of a product that had already been shown to cause cancer in laboratory mice. So far, there has been only one 2006 documented case of a dog contracting cancer from a microchip. Leon, the French bulldog who contracted the cancer has had both the chip and the tumor removed successfully in 2004 and has had no recurrence reported. The standard developed tumors in rats and mice are always around the microchip itself.
The decision to microchip your dog must be individual. Talk to your vet, see what options are available and also look at the companies behind the chip for the most information possible. Just as the case may be human not a medical treatment promoted everything the vet's office is something you or your pet needs.
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