I view chipping as a good thing in the event they ever lose their collar. Does anyone know any negatives?
A couple years back I had found a dog without any ID tags near a print shop that I used for making t-shirts. I thought it may have escaped from the Vet next door, but they rather unsympathetically told me it was not theirs or their problem. I asked them if they would call the authorities and hold the dog in one of their kennels, since I cannot take a dog anywhere with me on a motorcycle, which they also declined. Then I asked if I could use a phone to call the authorities, they finally offered to scan the dog for a chip first, the owner's name and number popped up, and we called them. The owner didn't even know their dog was missing...