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- <text id=90TT0455>
- <title>
- Feb. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Pets
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 19, 1990 Starting Over
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 73
- Business Notes
- PETS
- The Fido Finder
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> "Oh, where, oh, where has my little dog gone?" That old
- musical question now has a modern answer. A California-based
- company called Infopet is selling a computer-age tag: a
- microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder
- blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can
- be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's
- computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's
- license number, medical condition and, most important, the
- owner's phone number.
- </p>
- <p> In the 1 1/2 years since Infopet began offering the service,
- 10,000 pets have been micro-tagged in California, Oregon,
- Washington and Missouri. So far, 27 animals have been returned
- to their owners because of the device. The microchip, its
- insertion and a year of registration cost $40.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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