Marshall starts Microchipping all Ferrets for Japan
06日 05月 2003年
February 19, 2003
Re: Microchip Requests/Information
Microchips are a very important advance in animal safety and health. By ensuring proper individual identification, this procedure helps to Provide optimum care and health tracking for each ferret throughout its life.In addition, microchips are completely sterile (and thus safe to insert).
The insertion procedure is rapid and no more painful than a routine injection (as for immunization); and they are extremely well tolerated for Many years and remain under the skin in a completely harmless fashion. The "tradition" of chip placement in the interscapular region (the area between the shoulder blades) is a matter of convenience and convention. Itfs convenient because most species of animals have loose skin in this region, which is why injections are often also given there. The convention of placement in this area makes it easier to read the chips because everyoneh universally" understands where to position the reader.
As long as the recipients know where the chips are placed (so they know where to position the readers), then it becomes simply a matter of choosing another spot where there is loose tissue for convenient injection.
Roberta Scipioni Ball, DVM
Marshall Farms U.S.A.
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