TO BRING FIDO SAFELY HOME MICROCHIP CLINIC OPENS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Some 400 dog owners who live in unincorporated areas came out Saturday for the first day of a free clinic to get their pets implanted with tiny microchips that hold identification data. The implants -- about the size of a grain of rice -- fulfill a new Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County ordinance requiring the chips for dogs living in Quartz Hill, Littlerock and other unincorporated county territories. The chips aren't required -- yet -- for dogs in Palmdale or Lancaster. The implants are free. Residents also will receive free lifetime registration for their animals. The program will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Lancaster Animal Shelter, 5201 W. Ave. I in Lancaster. The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. approved an ordinance requiring all dogs -- except for qualifying show dogs, guide dogs and police dogs -- be spayed spay tr.v. spayed, spay·ing, spays To remove surgically the ovaries of (an animal). [Middle English spaien, from Anglo-Norman espeier, to cut with a sword or neutered neu·ter adj. 1. Grammar a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. a. and that dogs more than 4 months old be implanted with the identifying chip. The procedure is nonsurgical and requires no anesthetic. Each microchip has a code number embedded in it that can be read by a hand-held scanner. The number is stored in a database that included the owner's contact information. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color in AV edition only) Annie, a Shih Tzu Shih Tzu (shē dz  ), breed of active, alert toy dog originating in Tibet centuries ago. It stands from 8 to 11 in. (20.3–27.9 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 9 to 18 lb (4. owned by Les and Dawn White, is one of hundreds of dogs who sat tight Saturday while getting microchipped -- here by technician Kathey Moxie and county Animal Control Officer Will Saunders in Lancaster. (2 -- color in AV edition only) The requiered microchips for dogs are small enough to fit into a hypodermic needle hypodermic needle n. 1. A hollow needle used with a hypodermic syringe. 2. A hypodermic syringe including the needle. and require no anesthetic for insertion. (3 -- color -- ran in AV edition only) Each chip will contain the owner's contact info. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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