Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: fluffybunny on March 06, 2008, 18:55:47 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7281529.stm
In these days of accellerating technology, I wonder how long it will be before these can be incorporated into microchips. Now that I would pay a monthly fee for!
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I would pay a monthly fee too
Cars can have a tracker so why cant cats !!
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Sadly, you'd need o attach a bettery pack to them somewhere.....
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At the moment maybe but who knows what the future may hold - it wasn't that many years ago that mobile phones were the size of house bricks to accommodate the battery and other technology.
Ever the optimist!
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Someone mentioned incorporating trackers into microchips on a recent thread about collars and I thought, YES! What a fantastic idea! Even a separate tracker that could be imbedded when chipping would be great. I looked into trackers on the internet and they all seem to be quite bulky at the moment so only suitable to be attached to a collar. But this is a sure fire, gold clad marketing opportunity as I would imagine most pet owners concerned enough to microchip would gladly pay a little extra for a tracker. As soon as technology delivers a small enough tracker unit I expect someone will jump on this... I'll be waiting :briggin:
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until they can get a natural bio power supply sorted from the cats body, I wouldn't have any size of battery embedded in any of my cats. :sick:
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until they can get a natural bio power supply sorted from the cats body, I wouldn't have any size of battery embedded in any of my cats. :sick:
Oh no nor me, I hadn't thought of it like that. I meant when computer technology allows some sort of tracker to be programmed on a microchip... I had not considered any sort of battery being put in the cat... never :sick:
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yes a fab idea but cannot see how it will prevent theft, i know it says it lockable collar but it looks like it would be very easy to cut and be removed.
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until they can get a natural bio power supply sorted from the cats body, I wouldn't have any size of battery embedded in any of my cats. :sick:
Oh no nor me, I hadn't thought of it like that. I meant when computer technology allows some sort of tracker to be programmed on a microchip... I had not considered any sort of battery being put in the cat... never :sick:
It'll still need a power source of some kind :) GPS satellites don't continuously scan the whole world for satnavs, like a vet would scan the shoulders of a cat looking for a microchip. The chip would need to send a signal out to the satellites and be in view of the sky - by default not possible if embedded in a cats body. The power drained from a battery by GPS modules is still considerable, especially in a continuous reporting state.