We now offer pet microchips to our surgical patients. Microchipping offers pet owners the only truly permanent method of identifying your pet and linking the animal back to its owner via the Lost Pet Recovery Service.
Animal microchips are about the size of a grain of rice and will be implanted by our vet just beneath the surface of the skin. The process is similar to receiving vaccination through a needle and is painless to most pets.
When found pets are brought into animal shelters, pounds or even found by some police departments, they are scanned with a wand. The owner of that pet is notified immediately if the pet has a microchip in it. Each microchip has a unique number in it that is associated with that pet and the owners contact information. This information is stored in a national database.
We use the 24PetWatch Microchip ID. 24PetWatch is dedicated to the safe return of pets all across the United States.
Be sure to update the contact information associated with the chip if you change phone numbers or if the pet is adopted by a new owner. Microchips only work if there is human to contact if the pet is found!
Microchip Fees:
- Microchip implantation and registration... $20
- If you change of emergency contact after one year... $14.95
- Optional fee for unlimited lifetime changes to emergency contact info... $35.99
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