Did you know that it is estimated that over 10 million pets are lost or stolen every year in the United States? Or one in three dogs will go missing at some point during their life? What if there was an easy way to find your furry friend?
Microchipping your pet is the best way to ensure that you will find your pet if they get lost or stolen. A microchip is an implantable computer chip that encodes a unique identification number to help reunite you with your pet. It is about the size of a grain of rice, and is implanted with a syringe in between your pet's shoulder blades. Microchips work by receiving a radio signal from a scanner and transmitting the encoded chip identification number back to the scanner. With the chip identification number in hand, your contact information is only a phone call away. There are many different microchip companies, the we use at Tender Care is Petlink. It costs $45 dollars for the one time microchip implant. We then have a registration form that needs to be filled out, once the form is filled out and we have your email address, we actually register everything online for you! We will give you a username and password that you use to login and change any information. You will also get a couple of stickers with your pet's microchip number on it for your files. That number will also be stored in our computer system. The great thing about microchipping your pet is that it will NEVER expire or go away. I feel a lot better knowing that all of my pets are microchipped, just in case they would get lost or run away.
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Katie MartinVeterinary Assistant at Tender Care Animal Hospital, animal lover, some say the crazy cat lady :) Archives
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