Microchip
Article
Home Again® Pet
Recovery System
Microchipping is
Permanent Pet Identification
The HomeAgain® Pet Recovery System is a safe,
simple and permanent form of pet identification designed to quickly
identify lost pets and reunite them with their owners. Over 10 million pets become lost
each year. One out of
every three pets is lost during its lifetime, and only 1 in 10 lost
pets is found. The
HomeAgain® Pet Recovery Service is a
proven way to successfully recover your pet if it should become
lost. Nearly 10% of
pets enrolled in the HomeAgain® Pet
Reovery Service have become lost and
were successfully reunited with their owners.
Is Microchipping Safe?
No bigger
than a grain of rice, the microchip is a small, sterile transponder
that contains a unique ID code of being read by any ISO standard
scanner. The
microchip’s biocompatible material is extremely safe for the
animal. The microchip
is a passive device.
It requires no battery and remains inactive until it is
scanned.
Anesthesia
is not necessary for implantation. Consider having your pet microchipped during a scheduled procedure or
check up. Microchipping your pet just takes seconds and is
relatively painless and is recommended for dogs and cats of all
breeds and ages. It is
safe for puppies and kittens, as well as older pets who may wander
away from home.
How Do Recoveries Happen?
When you
enroll your microchipped pet in the
HomeAgain nationwide database, your
contact information is safely stored until it is needed to reunite
you with your pet. A
professional recovery team maintains the database 24 hours a day, 7
days a week and notifies you as soon as your pet’s ID number is
called in to the 24-hour recovery hotline. Animal clinics and shelters scan
lost animals and call the HomeAgain Pet
Recovery team to report a found pet. Currently, with HomeAgain Pet Recovery Service, a successful
recovery occurs approximately every 6 minutes.
How the HomeAgain® Pet Recovery Service Works:
- Ask your Veterinarian to implant a HomeAgain® microchip.
- Fill out the enrollment form enclosed with
the microchip. The
enrollment information is stored in the HomeAgain Pet Recovery database and is used to
contact you should your pet become lost.
- Lost pets are scanned by the shelter or
veterinarian, revealing the unique HomeAgain Pet Recovery code number.
- The HomeAgain Pet
Recovery team matches the unique ID code to the contact information
in the database.
- You are contacted immediately so you can
bring your pet home.
