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 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 approved an ordinance requiring all dogs -- except for qualifying show dogs, guide dogs and police dogs -- be spayed or neutered and that dogs more than 4 months old be implanted with the identifying chip. The procedure is nonsurgical and requires no anesthetic 1. characterized by anesthesia; numb. 2. pertaining to or producing anesthesia. 3. an agent that produces anesthesia. local anesthetic an agent, e.g., lidocaine, procaine, or tetracaine, that produces anesthesia by paralyzing sensory nerve endings or nerve fibers at the site of application. . 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 (4.1–8.2 kg). owned by Les and Dawn White, is one of hundreds of dogs who sat tight Saturday while getting microchipped -- here by technician Kathey Moxie (language, music) Moxie - A language for real-time computer music synthesis, written in XPL.["Moxie: A Language for Computer Music Performance", D. Collinge, Proc Intl Computer Music Conf, Computer Music Assoc 1984, pp.217-220]. 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 1. Of or relating to the layer just beneath the epidermis. 2. Relating to the hypodermis. 3. Injected beneath the skin. n. 1. A hypodermic injection. 2. A hypodermic needle. 3. A hypodermic syringe. 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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