Woof! Taking Your Pet’s Temperature Just Got A Lot Easier

Well, I guess it had to happen. 

From DogFlu.ca:

“Digital Angel Corp. is a company based in St. Paul, Minnesota and is now gaining huge recognition for being the first company to produce, and patent, an injectible device that can be used to take the body temperature of its host animal via radio waves. The patent, granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, will allow for the company to sell the devices that can be used to unavaidingly test the temperature of dogs, cats, horses, pigs, and any other mammal.

Marketing of the bio-Thermo Microchip has just commenced in the US, however is well under way in other parts of the world. The belief is that the chip can be used to determine early signs of fever, bird flu, and other infectious diseases.”

The patent is No. 7,015,826 and is entitled “Method and apparatus for sensing and transmitting a body characteristic of a host.”

How long before we start seeing a kid version? And… being a cat owner, how do you take a dog’s temperature conventionally?  Do I even want to know?

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, April 11, 2006 at 9:24 pm
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On April 12th, 2006 at 9:16am Matt said…

What the heck is “unavaidingly”, anyway?