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Microchipping Your Dog

While collars and identification tags can provide a good start at helping to reunite your pet with you if he/she should get away from home, implanting a microchip helps to give additional protection at ensuring your pet's safe recovery. A microchip is implanted just under the skin between your pet's shoulder blades. In the event the two of you should ever become separated, and your pet is turned into a shelter, special hand-held scanner is used to read the microchip number implanted in your pet.

The shelter can then notify the American Kennel Club (AKC), which maintains a central database with your phone numbers as well as contact information for Bradley Hills Animal Hospital.

The microchip is approximately the size of a grain of rice, and the syringe used to inject it is about the size we use for our routine vaccinations. If you would like, we can microchip your pet for you when he/she is anesthetized for spaying or neutering, or for another procedure.