Benefits of Microchipping Your Pet
Losing a lost pet can be devastating. That’s why when it comes to the welfare of your pet, you should consider resQ® as an important part of their overall care program along with dental exams, vaccinations and the monthly, year-round, prevention of ticks, fleas, and heartworm.
Benefits:
- No surgery is required and resQ® chips are well-tolerated by pets
- resQ® provides online tools to notify our large community of pet owners and animal professionals immediately when a pet is lost to help you look for your missing pet
- resQ® is like an insurance policy for your pet because, unlike collars, it never comes off or gets lost - and it works all over the world
- Approximately 8 to 12 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year and approximately five to nine million are euthanized (60 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats)1
- Less than 2 percent of cats and only 15 to 20 percent of dogs are returned to their owners. Most of these are identified with tags, tattoos or microchips1
- If your pet is on medication or has a serious medical condition (for example: epilepsy or diabetes), it is important to find your pet as fast as possible so that it can get its medication
- When you move to a new address, during the hubbub of holidays, or when pets visits an unfamiliar location, they tend to get disoriented or scared—they may leave home and not know how to get back
- Microchips can be an integral part of an emergency plan—for example, if there is a house fire, a flood or some other natural disaster it is easy for your pets to get separated from you
1. ASPCA, Facts About Animal Sheltering. http://www2.aspca.org/site/DocServer/AFacts_ About_Animal_ShelteringFinal.pdf?docID=9283, Accessed April 11, 2010.