Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Micro Chip for pet Rescue

Have you ever lost your pet? Your heart jumps into your throat as you think what may happen if you don't find our loved pet as soon as possible.

What do you do???? Put posters up, go around the neighborhood, call your veterinarian, notify your facebook and worry.

Let's do everything we can to help get your pet back home. The first and simplest to do, is be sure you keep a collar and ID tag on your pet. Anyone that finds your pet can then call the phone number on the ID tag to let you know your pet has been found. A very low tech and simple way to recover your pet.

But what if your pet loses its tag?

That is where microchipping comes in to help protect your pet. We use Home Again chips for that additional safety. When you have a simple injection of the microchip you have added an additional layer of protection to get your pet home again. If your pet is lost and then presented to a rescue group, shelter or veterinarian the scanning for the chip can occur and give quick identification of your lost pet.

We like Home Again chips because for the first year after chipping the chip fee at our clinic includes the chip, chip placement, a year of access to poison control, registered with the PetMicrochipLookup.org, lost pet notification to the surrounding area and a $3,000 insurance policy for medical care during the time the pet is lost.

If you have not microchipped your pets, let me encourage you to get your pets protected.

Have any of you ever had your pet lost and found with the aid of a microchip?