Paw TelemetryFeeders, trackers and monthly costs

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Standards, warnings and the checks worth doing.

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Tabby cat eating from a white automatic feeder with a clear hinged lid, in a tiled kitchen corner — A microchip-reading feeder opens only for the right animal, which keeps one cat out of another's bowl.Photo: Giraldillo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Two fenced dog-run enclosures side by side in a park, gates open, rules sign mounted on the fence

Safety

Pet devices and the law: microchips, welfare and failing safe

The five needs in the Animal Welfare Act, the microchipping duty with its 8-week and 20-week deadlines, and how to pick devices that fail safe in a power cut.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons