I use a chisel

gps that fucker

I had both of my kittens chipped right after I got them - it's not so much of a help with cats because they are generally territorial, but since I live in a very urban area now, we decided to keep them as indoor cats - so getting them chipped was a good idea for if they ever escape.

My puppy will be chipped in 3 months

4 year olds been chipped since 6 months old

we asked for it for cheap (got it like 20$ usually costs 40$) when we adopted our pets from humane society

I got my more expensive breeders chipped but that's about it... Pretty hard for one of my snakes to get out of it's locked cage out of a locked room from a usually locked house.

And for everyone saying it's inhumane... People get microdermal implants all the time. They cause no discomfort short of the recovery process which is in 99.9% of cases very short. For pets that have the possibility to escape, it's so much easier for animal control to scan a chip and drop him/her back off then hope you see the "dog found" ad, or happen to know that exact animal belongs to you...

This post was edited by Dragonkilla8 on Oct 6 2011 05:00am

while microchipping is the go now and i did have to get my dog microchipped because i took him overseas to a country with compulsory microchipping
in principle i do not like microchipping because the chip can wander through the body (doesn't happen often but it can)
but i am in favour of proper identification, a reliable and tested method is to have kennel identifier/sequence number tatooed inside the ear
(works well for pedigree dogs which are registered)