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lots of folks treat their pets like family and why not they're better conversationalist 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 where 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 lids 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 skin indefinitely is that microchips are usually enclosed in an inert material such as glass so that your pets 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 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 these 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 the lost pet can be contacted quickly before shelter has to spend money to house and feed your pet or worse have it euthanized some databases will 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 thirty to sixty US dollars 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 correct scanners to read your pets 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 you use a microchip as a backup to a traditional collar with human readable contact information but the high reliability of pet microchip technology with a failure rate of less than one in a 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