Protect Your Pets the Betty White Way -- HomeAgain Pet Microchips

[Omaha Steve]

http://public.homeagain.com/bettywhite/?gclid=CNmAjeGP9bECFUdvTAod2TAA8w

&feature=player_embedded

[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. I love Betty White and my Moopies have these chips. n/t

[Major Nikon]

2. Both my dogs are microchipped

Home Again is probably the biggest outfit that does them, but there are other microchip brands and registry services. Most of the registry services, including Home Again, have a lifetime registration which means you register your microchip once and you never have to re-register it. You want to stay away from services that require you to keep re-registering your pet. Home Again is a bit deceptive in that they will send you reminders once per year to sign up for "enhanced recovery" services which make it sound as if you have to keep paying them to keep your pet registered, but you don't.

[KT2000]

3. just found the owner

of a cat that moved into my backyard because he had a chip.
They thought the coyotes had gotten him so they were really happy to have him back.

[xchrom]

4. thank you, miss betty. nt

[KurtNYC]

5. These chips are linked to cancer, especially in cats and smaller dogs

and this video is just an advertisement.

Cancer at the site of implant:
http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/131533/

WaPo story on cancer and these chips:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090800997_pf.html

[Robert Czar]

6. Cancer

I thought of this when I had my pet micro-chipped long ago.

It's just so hard to make these parental decisions.

[MADem]

8. The poster's links are crap--World Net Daily and a Wapo article about TRANSPONDER chips for medical

applications in humans--not passive reader chips in pets.

[MADem]

7. Those links--to be blunt--are total horseshit.

Your first link--the opinion of a "radio host" -- is from WORLD NET DAILY, a discredited, bullshit website that is not valid here at DU. You would be well advised to avoid using it again if you want to be perceived as credible. The article has at the bottom a shill for a nutcase book about Spychips. Please.

THAT WAPO story is about RFID chips with transponders in them implanted in HUMANS--not passive chips that require a scanning device to even know they are tehre. That has NOTHING to do with the reader chips that are put in pets. The human chips monitor conditions and send out signals--the pet chips just sit there waiting for an EXTERNAL reader to reveal their information.

To date, about 2,000 of the so-called radio frequency identification, or RFID, devices have been implanted in humans worldwide, according to VeriChip Corp. The company, which sees a target market of 45 million Americans for its medical monitoring chips, insists the devices are safe, as does its parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, of Delray Beach, Fla.

[obamanut2012]

9. You are using WORLD NET DAILY as a source on DU???