Microchipping Pets Is Super Important! You Can Get It Done For Cheap Too. Pets Who Have Microchips Have

Microchipping pets is super important! You can get it done for cheap too. Pets who have microchips have a higher chance to be returned home if they get lost. It is however just as important to keep your pets updated and keep tract of thr company! I personally use home again due to being able to pay a yearly subscription of $20-$25 for additional benefits including them reimbursing some costs should I have to travel to pick my animal up. You can also sign up for a newsletter, free with just your email, to be notified of lost or missing animals in your area

Important! Your pet's RFID chip number might have been disconnected this week.

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Microchip company ceases operations, pet owners urged to re-register

The Texas-based company, Save This Life, has ceased operations and that could become an issue for pet owners.

Is your pet chipped? They should be. Do you know who made the chip?

Pet RFID chips are so small that there's really only room on them for a serial number. When your lost pet is brought to a shelter or a vet's office, they can scan the chip, read that number, and then type it into a program that draws from a series of linked databases to find your name and phone number. That's how they find you, and tell you that Silly Lilly von Wigglesbottom has gone wandering, and she's safe and sound, and would you come get her, please?

Texas-based Save This Life, which provided chips to vets and shelters all across the US, has all at once and abruptly gone dark; their database is just gone. Their customers were not given warning and so did not know to change their registration to another company. A lot of animals have basically become anonymous now.

If you don't know what company you've been using, call your vet's office and ask what pet chip number they have on file. If the chip number starts with 991 or 900164, it's probably a Save This Life chip.

If it turns out yours is one of the affected cases, the chip itself will still be fine! There's no need to add another, or anything like that. You'll just need to transfer the number to another company, and your vet should be able to recommend the one that they like the best.