If your dog or cat got lost, you’d want to give him or her the best chance of getting home, and with microchipping, you can. We strongly advocate for every pet to have a microchip placed. We believe this is the best chance at reunification if a pet every escapes, is stolen, or is involved in a natural disaster.
- At Kennesaw Pet Center we use Home Again Temperature Microchips (which are best in class).
- These microchips are internationally recognized.
- They also enable us to touchlessly obtain your pet’s temperature, which everybody (human, canine, and feline) LOVES.
- Microchipped pets often have a longer the hold time at the shelter before they can be adopted out to another family or even euthanized.
Microchipping is a safe, permanent way to identify your pet in case he or she becomes lost. A microchip, which is a tiny device about the size and shape of a grain of rice, is placed just under the loose skin at the back of the neck. When a lost dog or cat without an ID tag is found, a veterinarian or veterinary technician will use a handheld microchip scanner to check for a chip. If the pet has one, it will transmit its ID number to the scanner via a low-frequency radio wave. The veterinary hospital or shelter then calls the chip manufacturer, retrieves the pet owner’s contact information, and calls the owner.
We recommend that you use a microchip, along with a collar and ID tag, to identify your pet. Microchipped pets have a much better chance of being identified and returned to you.