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Furbaby safety issue

17 years ago

I know this is a bit off topic, but since there are so many cottage gardeners who are also pet lovers..please take note..

This is why it is important to microchip your pet. My daughter lives in Indianapolis. After a weekend visit home to see us for Father's Day. She was greeted upon returning at her apartment complex door in pouring down rain by a big white husky dog as she called it. We now know it is a Siberian Husky. The poor dog was wet, and pulling a walking leash behind it. She looked around for anyone looking for it in the rain and when she found no one, she took it upstairs with her so it did not get hit on the road. She lives on a 6 lane road on two sides of her building. She posted notices and checked with the rental office for lost dog reports..no one responded. I suggested she contact the vet who has a office about two blocks from her, hoping the owners might of used the same vet and contacted them. She called them and they said they had no reports, but to bring the dog in and they would see if she had a microchip in. She took the dog right in and sure enough, she had been microchiped! She called the owner today on her lunch hour and the lady was very grateful..she had spent two days looking for the dog. And last night when she put her two little girls to bed, she had to tell them that they prolly were not going to find thier beloved pet. She said it was heartbreaking. They cried themselves to sleep last night. And today, because of a $35 dollar microchip...they will get thier dog back after my daughter gets off work.....so.....this is just a note..microchiping works....I am going to make a appointment to get mine done. A lesson well learned for me too. This story has a happy ending, but without microchiping it may not of. Consider it for your pet..it only takes one escape....ok, I will get down off my soapbox now....it just hit home a bit close to me. I love my furbabies to pieces and to know what might of happened...and how those little girls must of felt makes it all a bit more real that a suggestion you read or hear about.....consider it, for the cost of a dinner out, you can safeguard your pet.

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Eduarda
17 years ago
My dog has been microchiped for years for exactly the same reason! Recently a new law was passed here forcing owners of some breeds to microchip their dogs and nowadays most pure breed dogs get a microchip as well. Mine is definitely not a pure breed - he's the best and cutest mutt in the world :-) - but I wanted him microchiped so that in case he gets lost he can be traced back to us - at least if someone is clever enough to take him to a vet. Sadly, microchipping does not prevent animal abandon, many animals with microchips are turning up in busy roads as well...

Eduarda
keesha2006
Original Author
17 years ago
our local vet told us he routinely checks for microchips when someone comes in with a new pet...especially one they found or adopted out. So even if someone who finds them does not take them into be checked..someone down the line may still locate them.
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irish_rose_grower
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This is very interesting. I was recently at my vet and was told by the desk clerks that the chip will only help if the dog is brought into the animal shelter. Now I'm reading that they gave me wrong info and think I should get my dog microchipped.

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keesha2006
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17 years ago
Animal shelters also check for microchips I have been told..so if you pet is lost and picked up by a dog pound or someone takes him/her to a animal shelter..they most likely will also be checked...I think monthly you will see more and more vets and shelters and rescue groups use this service.....the more use of it, the more sucess it will have in returning your pets to you. Like I said..our vet charges 35 dolllars..so for the cost of a dinner out you can give your pet a chance at least if he gets out or is stolen!
Eduarda
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I don't know how it is the law in the US, but my vet told me that here vets are obliged to check for microchip if/when a person brings a new dog into the practise, whether it has been lost or not. My dog's vet definitely has the scanner to read it, as I ask her to test the microchip on a regular basis. Countries such as the UK do not even allow any pet entering their territory without having been microchiped. To qualify your pet to enter the UK is a pain in the *** (ask me how I know) and one of the legal requirements for it is for the animal to be microchiped.

The chip is inserted under the skin via a needle in a seringe and is impossible to trace from the outside. In Portugal the chip has a number/bar code assigned. This number is entered into the animal's medical record (that the owner keeps), one copy is kept at the vet and another is sent to a national database which gathers all the numbers. The database collects information such as owner name and address, telephone number, so that the person can be contacted. They also issue a card, just like a credit card, in the name of the animal and which I usually carry in the purse that holds his medical records and licenses.

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