RFID tags for all Portuguese dogs

In an article full of really bad jokes ZDNet announced that Digital Angel, under a grant from the Portuguese government is undertaking a plan to implant RFID tags in all of it's dogs by 2007. The dogs will be tagged and entered into a national canine database. We're not quite sure how tagging a dog will help to control rabies, unless it's used to punish the owner of the dog for letting it get rabies in the first place. Why not just give all dogs rabies vaccinations while they're implanting the RFID tags if they really want to control rabies? They also claim that the next generation of tags should be able to take the animal's temperature to aid in determining if it's sick.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:39AM]

NO! Not my cat, not my dog, not my kids, and DEFINITELY NOT ME! Before drafting, volunteers are taken. It looks like Portuguese dogs are about to be DRAFTED, meaning that the volunteer period is ending at least for canine populations. Spain was the first country to compel the microchipping of domestic pets -- 1993. The Scottish veterinarian running the program announced then it was part of plan that was first national (Spain) and then regional (EU) and then GLOBAL. No thank you. Read Revelation 13 -- and 14. No advantages to this -- either in the here or the hereafter.

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY
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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:39AM]

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