In the last 15 years, microchip implantation has become a popular method of permanent identification in pet dogs and cats, as well as laboratory animals 2. A microchip is a battery-free ...

The Bastrop City Council on Tuesday approved on first reading an ordinance that requires pet owners to microchip their pet and register it.

The size of a microchip can be compared to a grain of rice. It's inserted into an animal, usually near their shoulder blade. If they get separated from their family, animal services can scan that ...

It's standard practice in the veterinary field to microchip pets. So standard, in fact, that some 3.5 million household animals in the US have little rice-sized chips in them, helping rescue ...

The key to this system—called the Electronic Laboratory Animal Monitoring System (ELAMS)—is an 1 1-mm microchip transponder that is encased in glass and implanted subcutaneously or intramuscularly via ...