Identification Tags & Microchips for Rescued Pets

Video Transcript

"I'm Sylva Kelegian with Expert Village with Simone Luncher of Pet Mania in Burbank and we rescue dogs together and we're going to talk about the importance of keeping an id tag on your dog as well as microchipping. When your dog gets out, if he unfortunately doesn't have a tag on and he's microchipped, and so he's lucky enough to be picked up and brought to the pound, Simone will explain how that works. Having a tag on your dog is very important but what happens, for whatever reason, the dog loses the tag or even somebody has just taken the collar off and wants to keep the dog and just throws away the id tag, so a microchip is something that can't be removed. The microchip is actually implanted into your dog and it's a very reasonable procedure, very short and painless and it can be scanned by any animal shelter or any vet. So if somebody brings your dog to a veterinarian or animal shelter, they have the scanners, scan it across the animal and an id number will show up with your address on it so it's a great thing to have and I wish every animal should be microshipped, for sure. One little quick story, a dog was stolen from a yard, the dog had an id tag on, someone jumped the fence, took the dog, a year later, obviously they took the tag off because it had the old owner's number on it, a year later the dog got out of the house that it was stolen from, someone found the dog, brought it to the shelter, they scanned the dog and the dog got back to its original owner. So that's why it's so important to not only have an id tag on but also microchip as well. Any vet will do it for $35 to $40 and then you register for $18.50, you never have to pay another dime for the life of the dog, it's covered and safe. So please, microchip and tag your dogs."