Every year 1000’s of misplaced and deserted animals are taken in by shelters and humane societies throughout North America. A few of these animals by no means make it house as a result of they will’t be recognized.
Microchipping is a dependable, everlasting, one-time service that helps provide you with peace of thoughts in your furry good friend’s lifetime. Microchips are solely efficient if the microchip is registered in a database, resembling PetLink, and the pet dad or mum’s contact info is saved updated.
With correct registration related to the distinctive microchip quantity, a misplaced animal will be traced again to their pet dad or mum as quickly because the chip is scanned at a veterinary clinic, animal shelter or municipal pound.
Do you know that the Ontario SPCA helped reunite over 280 misplaced animals with their households in 2021? Microchips assist make lots of these reunions doable!
Listed here are some solutions to generally requested questions from the Ontario SPCA’s microchip supplier, PetLink.
Will the microchip put on out and must be changed?
The microchip is passive, which suggests it doesn’t have an inside battery. When a microchip scanner is handed over it, it’s powered by the scanner and can transmit the animal’s ID quantity. The identical microchip will final by means of your furry good friend’s lifetime.
Is microchipping painful for my furry good friend?
Microchip implantation is not any extra painful to animals than a flu shot is to a human. A PetLink microchip is as small and skinny as a grain of rice and is well implanted with out anesthesia.
Can a microchip work like a GPS?
Microchips can’t be used as monitoring units. They’re a type of identification that may be checked with a microchip scanner by a veterinarian or shelter group.
What occurs if the implanted microchip doesn’t work?
Within the unlikely occasion that your PetLink microchip stops working after it’s implanted, please have your veterinarian contact PetLink at petlink@petlink.web.
It’s essential to all the time hold your contact info present and updated. Contact your microchip supplier on to replace info concerning a transfer or change of telephone quantity.
*Materials tailored from https://www.petlink.web/frequently-asked-questions/