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Here's an email, in its entirety, I just received at my work email:

Hello i have a spy microchip in my body
I would like to know
what material has microchip in human body and is
How can i find it in my body ?
please help me

Another advantage of having an animal ID/trace-back program for livestock. Besides food-borne illness and contagious disease controls, it's apparently a good way to get your cattle back after natural disasters...

Sale of the clinic closed on Wednesday, bank funded it on Thursday. For better or worse, it's my responsibility now. I'm sure that by the end of January, that won't seem quite so overwhelming, but right now? scaryscary. Sale of the land is still pending. When that goes through, I'll be over a million dollars in debt. Literally. How freaky is that?! Well, I'm freaked out by it, anyway. Also, I'm extremely tired of insurance applications, as the lender required that I have disability, office overhead, life, real property, and business property insurance!

Bruce has decided to give up on the commuting thing and become my house-spouse full time, effective later this coming week. I look forward to having many fewer household chores to deal with while trying to figure out how to run a business, but have to admit to being a little stressed over the decrease in income (reference above about $1M debt!).

Arctic got adopted to a local lady with 200 acres to play on. Good deal for him, I say...she wouldn't let Bruce and me move up with the dog though.

And in a totally bizarre set of events, Birthday Bear got adopted out. I'm sure you remember my posting about him earlier; he's been at my place for a while now, playing with Minnie (my one-eyed yellow pit mix).
Earlier this week, a lady (M) arrived at our clinic with a dog she was going to foster, that she had just picked up from a rescue. Knowing how slim the chances are that this particular rescue had scanned the dog for microchip on getting her in, I scanned her. And microchip she did have. So I called the associated phone number, and asked if they were missing a dog. The gentleman who answered said "A 3 legged German Shepherd? She's alive?! I thought she got eaten by a cougar!" Turns out she's been missing for about a month, and was found 30 miles from home. Have I mentioned that even out here in the middle of nowhere, microchips are useful for getting animals home?

So we contacted the rescue, and told them what was up, and kept the dog. Which left M sad, because she'd driven all the way up from PF (in a snow storm, no less!) to pick up this sad, skinny, 3 legged German Shepherd. So, about half jokingly, I offered to replace her with a different 3 legged dog. Took a couple minutes to convince M that I actually had one, and then she was quite excited about meeting him. So I sent my mom to get the dog from my house, and bring him back. It was instant love, of course--only a totally hard hearted monster could resist Bear. *Sidelong look at Bruce*-+

M took Bear home, and emailed me back that he'd gotten on instantly well with their other dog-a 1 eyed yellow pit mix!-and that her kids love him. They were going to rename him Baxter, but the 4 year old was pronouncing it "bastard" so they are going to call him Bailey Bear instead.

Now I just have Holly to place; and got an email just today that sounds fairly promising on that front, so wish me luck!

So that's the summary of my week. How are you all doing?

I have 2 dogs in foster currently. Arctic is a young adult male neutered Siberian Husky, good with other animals but needs a good fenced yard (was found wearing an Invisible Fence collar--still surprised nobody at least called to get the collar back, those things are spendy).
Holly is a medium sized, short haired, yellow dog of indeterminate breed, a "lady of a certain age". Really well behaved and calm, have yet to find anything that gets her riled up.

Pictures and full profiles here: http://www.petfinder.com/pet-search?shelterid=WA388

In other news, if you have a pet, get them microchipped, and register the microchip. I have a client who found a cat last weekend. She brought it in, and it has a microchip.
I called the microchip company: chip is not registered to an owner, but lot was shipped to Idaho Humane Society.
I called IHS: click/disconnect
Called IHS again: left message
4 hours later, no return call, called back, again got message machine.
I called Humane Society of Palouse (howdy, sphynxagain!) and left cat's description.
Finder called IHS, left message.
Finder called all veterinary clinics in Pullcow area, as well as Pullman shelter.
We heard nothing back over weekend.
This morning, I called IHS: click/disconnect.
I call IHS AGAIN: finally spoke to someone who gave us owner information. For someone in Meridian (this is many and long away from Pullman, where the cat was found).
Finder calls number IHS gave. Turns out that cat belongs now to that owner's daughter, who is a WSU student. Cat has been missing since September, which is why nobody had a current lost ad.

Morals of the story:
--Microchips get lost pets home. They are worth doing.
--Registered microchips eliminate the hassle and many potential points for failure in getting the pet home; what if I'd not persistently called back, or if IHS hadn't kept back records of microchip numbers with adoptions? if the microchip is not associated with owner's name, it makes it MUCH less likely to be traceable.
--Update your registration when you move! What if we'd dropped it when we found the registration was so far removed from where the cat was found?

is why we recommend the use of microchips, despite the media hullaballoo about the one cat and one dog that had tumors that maybe, potentially, might have been, possibly associated with a chip.

http://www.freep.com/article/20101120/NEWS06/11200350/Purr-fect-reunion-Missing-cat-back-with-owner-after-3-years

http://www.allbusiness.com/society-social-assistance-lifestyle/animals-society-pets/15185042-1.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/100000-pets-returned-home-again-with-digital-angel-corporations-patented-implantable-microchip-technology-76813097.html (Please note that this is the 100,000 animal identified and aided in its return home by this brand chip, in this country alone. There are many brands of chips, and many countries using them.

So there's a woman suing Homeagain because her cat got a tumor.

I'd like to point out that there are a couple very important details not provided in this article, which I immediately want to know. 1: Did the cat receive leukemia vaccinations? If yes, were they given in the area of the tumor? Because, unlike microchips, there is a known relationship between sarcoma formation and leukemia vaccination sites. 2: What does the biopsy of the tumor show? (and there BETTER have been a biopsy, or why the hell are they even in court?) Because if this is a mast cell tumor or melanoma instead of a sarcoma, then just no.

Previous discussion, same topic: http://draggonlaady.livejournal.com/163158.html

I'll post a long write up of the whole trip soon (but need to finish typing it first). in the mean time, have some news articles.

Horse breeder convicted of animal cruelty
My favorite line:

Michael Howard, Paragallo's lawyer, called the verdict disappointing and surprising and said he would appeal the convictions.

"This requires a horse owner to take on a very high level of burden," he said.

Gee? no shit?

FDA looks into complaints about dog treats made in Mo.

This is why we recommend microchips

4th dog poisoned in Spokane

For those of you who don't know, NAIS is the National Animal Identification Service, the basic idea of which is that if a central database of who keeps what type of livestock where and who sells what into the food chain exists, then disease control and trace-backs of food chain contamination will be easier.

Of course, tons of people immediately threw a fit, because this obviously means that the gub'nment wants to be able to confinscate your aminals. (Please see the rant about the monkey smuggler, as she's fanatically anti-animal identification.)

Anyway, I signed myself up, being the good commie girl that I am. Cost me all of about 5 minutes and a stamp. I've been signed up for over a year now, and am happy to say that the government has not come to take my horses (yet).

However, they did very nicely send me a letter today, warning me that several horses in the state have potentially been exposed to a highly-contagious disease, and explaining what horses are most at risk, what signs to watch for, and what to do if I notice said signs. You know, this is suspiciously like what they said I was signing up for....

That I have crazy/weird clients. This woman is one of them:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/09/monkey.smuggling/

This is, by the way, the woman who wanted me to remove microchips from her dogs. Who is adamantly (fanatically, even) opposed to the National Animal Identification System.
As Dr S says "Gee, no wonder she's opposed to animal identification!"

This woman is another:

http://www.kctv5.com/news/14098441/detail.html
http://www.washingtoninjuryattorneyblog.com/2008/09/chewelah_washington_woman_on_t_1.html
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/020208/loc_242966995.shtml
http://www.ktka.com/news/2008/nov/12/ramona_morgan_sentenced_26_years/

Having been asked a couple times now (once politely, and once rather more belligerently) about the rumored dangers of microchipping pets, I thought I'd throw some info out here for any of you who were wondering.

First, a link to the web page of the woman I was told is "the foremost expert on microchips in the country."

http://antichips.com is the main page, the page I reference most in the following is http://antichips.com/cancer

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