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Microchipping Your Standard Poodle
High Tech Way to Identify Your Standard Poodle Microchipping has taken the fear out of having my Poodles lost or stolen. Losing your pet can be a heartbreaking experience and most searches are unsuccessful. Unfortunately, once a pet is lost, the odds are against him finding his way home again. The American Humane Association states that only about seventeen percent of lost dogs find their way back home from shelters to their original owners. The rest are euthanized because their owners can’t be found. The best way to beat the odds these days, is to have him microchipped. Microchipping has been around since 1989 and is widely recognized as the best way of permanently identifying your dog. Tags and collars are a good start, and although quite handy, they aren’t permanent. Tags and collars can rust, fade get scratched and come off. Collars can also get caught on something while your dog is out roaming around and could hurt or kill him. Tattoos are another means of identification, but can be altered with ink. What is Microchipping? It is a painless procedure that injects a tiny microchip, about the size of a grain of rice, under the flap of skin on the back of the dog’s neck. The procedure is similar to getting a vaccination. A microchip is permanent and cannot be cut off or altered in any way. After the chip is inserted, the number on the chip is entered into an international database. If your Poodle is picked up as a stray, stolen, or sold to a research facility, a scanner will be used to read the digital number on the chip. A quick call to the microchip company will verify your information and your Poodle will soon be home safe and sound. Research labs won’t take dogs that have been chipped. Many veterinarians, shelters and humane societies now have the chip readers, and although it isn’t as popular in the US as it is in Canada and Great Britain, vets and animal shelters are working hard to inform their clients about microchipping. So, if you want to rest easier knowing you have a better chance of getting your precious Standard Poodle returned to you, please consider getting him microchipped! Here are a few companies that provide microchipping:
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