El microchip en mascotas | 🐱📝🐶 ¿Por qué debes identificar a tu gato y tu perro?

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Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Today I'm here to talk to you about identifying your pets, both your dogs and your cats. It's quite common for you to ask me questions in the consultation because, well, here in Spain for, for example, microchipping dogs and cats is mandatory, but also on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram, there are times when you ask me things about this because in your countries it's either not mandatory or they're just starting to implement it. Right now, as I know is happening in Chile, as I understand that there may be a bit of misinformation and that you can't find anything published online. Well, we've decided to make this video to see if I can clear up all your doubts. Today I'm going to tell you that identifying your pets is essential, not only because it's a law, but also because if your pets have a microchip, if they get lost, for example, if they get out of your house when you're not looking, or if you have them loose in the park or on the dog park and the door opens and they run away, the only way to identify these animals is with the microchip. So if someone finds your pet and takes it to a veterinary clinic, we can use a microchip reader to find the number encoded in the chip and use that number to contact you. So the only way, and the only guarantee that if you lose your pet, you'll find it again, is with the microchip. It's like the ID card in Spain that everyone has, but in this case your pets have it and they have it inside their skin. I decided to make this video because a subscriber asked me a series of questions on Instagram that I thought were very interesting to answer. Hello, friends. Carlos. I have to put an identification chip in my 5 month old kitten since it became mandatory in Chile this month. The thing is that I have some questions. Where do you put the chip in cats? I mean, on the body? Can the chip move from its place under the skin? How long does the chip last? I wish they would make a video on this topic. Greetings and thanks. My dog already has a microchip. The process was simple, but I think it's not the same for cats and I can't find much information about it. Thank you very much for giving us this idea because I think it's a question that quite a Few people have and I hope to answer them with this video. Although I'm going to refer to cats, because you're specifically asking me about the subject of microchipping cats. The process is quite similar to the one followed for dogs. The only thing is that cats, due to their special handling, may have a little more difficulty when it comes to getting their microchip inserted. The microchip is a tiny electronic device, like a grain of rice made of glass, that is placed under the skin. And when read with this type of special reader, it gives us a numeric code. They do not give us your data, they only give us the numeric code that the microchip has from which we can find out what your data is. This is important because it is what connects your dog or cat to you. Don't worry, because your data will not be available to just anyone. Normally we have them in veterinary surgeries, and at least here in Spain, only we, the veterinarians, those of us who are authorized, can access the database. Not even the police. The police often call us so that we can tell them the name of the owner. They can't see it because the police sometimes find dogs, right? Sure. Because if the police find a dog, they may have a microchip reader, but when they call me on the phone, they give me the code so that I can tell them, okay, lets identify this person so we can take the dog home. The first question, where do you put the microchip on cats? Well, it's put in exactly the same place as on dogs, because by international consensus, the microchip is always placed on the left side of the neck. Today we have help again to explain where it's placed. It's placed under the skin in this area here. And why is it always placed in the same place? Because it doesn't matter if we're a vet in Chile, Colombia or Spain, we have to know where to look, because imagine if we have to look for the entire dog to see where the microchip is. The reader has a field of action, it can't search the entire dog. And well, if it's still a small dog, like a 40kg dog, let's see where I can find it. So in animals, with a few exceptions, it is always placed on the left side of the neck. Sometimes it has to be placed in another specific place because, well, maybe this skin is not suitable to accommodate the microchip because it has a wound or a scar or something like that. And then we have to clearly indicate this in its documentation. I have brought you A microchip device so that you can see what it looks like and so that you understand a little bit about how we place it. I am not going to take this out of the bag because this is not a toy. This is a document that is valid. And therefore this number has to be associated with an animal. If I open it, it loses its sterility and I can no longer place it. So just so you can see a little bit how it works. As I said, the device is about the size of a grain of rice. Therefore the. The needle with which we have to place it under the skin is a little thick. That is why sometimes cats have some kind of strange behavior. Well, because they don't usually like what we do to cats in the clinic. The placement is generally almost painless. The only good thing is that the skin prick is a little bit painful, which of course they can feel. It might bother them a little, but not much more than a vaccine. And it's something we do super quickly for cats. There are some needles and some microchips that are a little smaller and therefore they tolerate it a little better. Once it's placed under the skin, it doesn't cause them any problems or discomfort because as I said, it's sterile. In situations where the body reacts to the microchip don't usually occur, then you'll have to fill out some paperwork and a series of documents that they'll require in your country. It's also mandatory for any type of pet that's going to travel internationally to have a microchip because they have to be identified to go through customs. It can move under the skin. Well, this happened especially with older microchips because when you put them in, they. What happened with the microchip was that the body would move it, it would go under the skin and sometimes you had to look for it who knows where. Nowadays microchips come with an anti migration device, which means that the body doesn't move it much from that area. Yes, it's true that although current microchips have this anti migration device, it can move a little. And it's relatively common to find dogs and cats in which we've put the microchip in this area and they end up having it here or they have it a little further back because the microchip has moved a little through the subcutaneous tissue. The thing is, old microchips sometimes went down to the leg and there are dogs that have the microchip placed in the leg.

Do you see that it's not there?

No, yes, it's fine now it's there, right? Yes, and it should be. I'll go from here to here. But. Oh, well. And finally you ask me how long the chip lasts. Well, this can be interpreted in two ways. How long does the process of inserting it take? It's immediate. It's simply inoculating the microchip under the skin with the needle, and that's it. And the useful life of the chip will be the life of your pet. Microchips do not deactivate, or at least not frequently when they are inserted. There are times when you go to pass the reader and an animal that does indeed have a microchip inserted, the reader does not recognize it and does not return any type of code. In those cases, it must be recorded and a new microchip must be inserted. But as I was saying, that is not very common. As you can see, the video is very short. But I think that all the questions you ask me are quite important because there are many people who may be a little lost at this time when the legislation in your countries is changing and you are being forced to do so. So, to sum up, I always recommend that you get your pet microchipped, even if they're not going to leave the house, because it's the only way you have to identify your cat. And if, for whatever reason, they go out into the city and don't have any kind of identification, it's very unlikely that you'll be able to see your pet again. This is a very important issue because we all have to be aware that animal identification is essential for caring for the dogs and cats that live with us. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like and share it with everyone. Remember that you can subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. And by the way, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who are subscribing now and those who have been subscribed for much longer, because thanks to you, the community is growing tremendously. Also, if you Click the bell, YouTube will notify you every time we upload new content. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel, and I'll see you in the next video. Oh, and the battery is blinking. Well, that's fair. Well, and lately we've had some rather intense comments saying not so nice things and such, but today we're just going to thank all those people who are subscribing to those who are subscribed. Right?

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