Pet Tech: To Chip or Not to Chip?

It was 1986 when John Snyder, then managing a Florida animal-control facility, saw his first microchip. He thought it was The Solution when it came to lost pets. “We thought it was ‘Star Wars,’ really cool,” said Snyder, now vice president, companion animals, for the Humane Society of the United States. “It solved all the problems — it won’t come off like collars and tags, people won’t remove them when they bathe the pet.” However, microchips haven’t been a panacea.