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Microchip Identification System
The reality: every two seconds a family pet is lost.
Tragically, most never make it back home because their owners didn’t identify them. Identifying your
pet is vital. With a HomeAgain microchip, your pet can’t leave home without his/her identification.
Scanners are provided free of charge to any shelter or animal hospital that requests one. Over 50,000
scanners have already been distributed since 2002. They are directly responsible for the recovery of
thousands of lost pets.
What is the Home Again Microchip?
Developed by a veterinarian, the Home Again Microchip is the professional way to identify your
pet and its proven safe and effective. A tiny microchip that contains a personal, one-of-a-kind ID
number distinguishes your pet as a special member of your lvaccination, it’s injected under the skin of
your pet where it remains safely for life. This inexpensive procedure can be done anytime and, best of
all protect virtually any pet you love…..dogs, cats, horses, birds, reptiles, exotics and even…are you
sitting?….fish!! Everywhere your pet goes, the microchip is there. It’s real protection that can’t fade or
fall off.
This is how it works….
If your lost pet is found and brought to a participating veterinary hospital or shelter, they’ll check
him/her for a microchip with a special scanner. When they find the chip number, they call Home
Again’s 24 hour hotline. That’s why it is so important for you to register your microchip
with all of your current contact information. After a quick search of the database, you, your
veterinarian or your alternate is contacted immediately and your pet comes home. Again, scanners
are provided free of charge!
Sad statistics:
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Only about 14% of dogs and 4% of cats taken to animal shelters are returned to their owners
30-60% of lost pets that end up in shelters are euthanized, since they cannot be identified and reunited
with their owners
Fewer than 35% of animals in shelters are adopted
Collar ID tags are easily lost and can be removed
Happy statistics:
 Microchipping is permanent, entirely unalterable form of pet identification
 Shelters, humane societies and veterinarians are using microchip scanners in ever increasing
numbers
 Microchipping is inexpensive, safe, fast and virtually painless for your pet
It only takes seconds! Be Hip….MicroChip!