Losing your pet can be traumatizing. Your pets can fell like they are a part of your family, so when you lose them, you lose part of yourself. Conscientious pet owners use collars and ID tags for pet identification. Unfortunately, these identification methods aren’t foolproof — collars and ID tags may break off, leaving your beloved cat or dog among the countless, unidentified lost pets in shelters.
Luckily, there exists a foolproof identification method for pets. Microchipping from Stave Lake Veterinary Hospital is an implantable computer chip inserted in your pet’s skin encoded with a unique number that enables you to reunite with your lost pet. Here are reasons you should consider microchipping your pet in Mission, BC, or Maple Ridge, BC, with a veterinarian at our veterinary hospital.
Can’t Be Lost
A microchip is a small device — the size of a rice grain— implanted in your pet’s skin. Unlike collars and tags, microchips can’t break off or get lost. These chips work by receiving a signal from a scanner and then respond by transmitting a code back to the scanner. With this code, we can get your contact details to reunite you with your beloved pet.
Is Safe
Jittery about the safety of microchips? You don’t have to. These chips are inserted using a syringe, like a vaccine. Also, microchipping is mostly painless and doesn’t require any anesthesia. Besides, the procedure doesn’t have any significant side effects bar from tenderness at the insertion site.
Increases the Chances of Reuniting with Your Pet
A microchipped cat is more likely to be reunited with the owner compared to a cat without. Similarly, a lost microchipped dog is more likely to be returned to the owner than a dog without a microchip.
Microchips are a good bet if you want to help avoid the tragedy of losing your pet. However, for the procedure to succeed, you need to keep your contact information updated. Giving additional alternative contact information to the veterinarian is even better in case you are unreachable.
Visit Us for Pet Microchipping Services from a Veterinarian on Our Team
Microchipping should be done by a veterinarian. So, if you are in Mission, BC, or Maple Ridge, BC, and want to microchip your cat or dog, book an appointment with us at Stave Lake Veterinary Hospital. Call us at (604) 286-0160.