Dog Dies After Chip Implant
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
February 4, 2009 1:09pm CST
A long haired Chihuahua called Charlie Brown died after receiving a legally mandated chip implant. (L.A. County requires all dogs at four months of age to be chipped.) The injection would not stop bleeding despite attempts to rescue the animal.
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While most implants go in animals with out a hitch, side effects and deaths are not uncommon. Cancer at the injection sight is a known problem, as is the wandering of the chip itself into places like the spine or brain stem.
3 responses
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
4 Feb 09
Maybe that will teach people, that noone should be chipped, it is just unethical in my opnion. I mean, it is bad enough they do it to dogs, I have heard from multiple people, they may start doing it to people!
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
5 Feb 09
Charlie Brown's people are fit to be tied. They were forced to chip Charlie by law even though they didn't want to.
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Some people are in fact chipped! There are fancy clubs that offer chipping to patrons who don't want to carry their credit cards on their persons.
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Implanted RFID club entrance/human debit card:
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http://www.identitywoman.net/implanted-rfid-club-entrancehuman-debit-card
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http://www.identitywoman.net/implanted-rfid-club-entrancehuman-debit-card@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
5 Feb 09
We should all sue the government for cruel and unusual punishment to humans and animals alike! 
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
5 Feb 09
These people may, but they are speaking out and that is giving the government a pie-in-face.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
4 Feb 09
Thats so sad. A dog dying because of such risk with the county requirements. I love chihuahua's more than any dogs so this is just sad.
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