Microchipping
Each year thousands of pets go missing, and many of them never make it back home to their loved ones. Mountains View Veterinary wants to help you keep track of your pet and make it easier to find them should the unthinkable happen and you get separated. Many pets get lost and are never returned to their owners because collars and tags can unexpectedly fall off or become damaged or unreadable. If you choose to have your pet microchipped, you don’t have to worry about a mishap such as this, since microchipping is a method of providing identification for your four-legged friend that is reliable, and can’t get lost, stolen, or damaged.
A microchip is a safe, simple form of identification that can significantly increase the chance that your lost pet will be returned to you. It is about the size of a grain of rice, and is implanted under your pet’s skin between the shoulder blades. The procedure takes only a few minutes and can be completed during any visit to Mountains View Veterinary.
Each microchip has its own unique registration number that is registered in a national directory and can be read by a portable scanner. We use the Avid microchip service for our patients. Once your pet is microchipped, you will be required to complete the registration process and keep it updated in the event that your contact information should change.
Veterinary hospitals, animal shelters, and animal control facilities across the country are equipped with scanners that can detect the microchip and read the identification number. When a stray pet is brought to one of these offices, it will be scanned for a microchip. Upon discovery of a microchip, a call to the pet recovery database will alert the microchip company that a lost pet has been identified. The pet owner can then be contacted and reunited with his or her pet!
Young or adult, inside pet or outside pet, get your pet microchipped today and give yourself peace of mind knowing that your pet is permanently linked with you.