Pet Microchipping
We offer pet microchipping – a minor, painless procedure that provides a permanent ID for your pet, ensuring their safe return if lost.
Ensuring Your Pet’s Safety
At Admiral Veterinary Hospital, we recognize that your pet is a beloved family member, not just another animal. We provide the most thorough and compassionate pet microchipping service in Farragut, TN, because we understand your affection for them and worry for their welfare.
Pet microchipping is about more than simply compliance; it’s about giving your pet buddy a lifeline. It’s a little gadget but provides pet owners great peace of mind. Here are some reasons why choosing Admiral Veterinary Hospital to microchip your pet is a choice you won’t regret.
Microchipping
Each year, thousands of pets go missing, and many don’t make it back home. Many pets (especially indoor pets) don’t wear collars or tags. Even if your pet wears a collar and identification tag, collars can break off, and titles can become damaged and unreadable, so these forms of identification may not be enough to ensure your pet’s safe return. Your pet needs a form of identification that is reliable and can’t get lost, stolen, or damaged. A microchip is a secure, simple form of identification that can significantly increase your pet’s chance to return safely.
A microchip is about the size and shape of a grain of rice and is placed underneath your pet’s skin between the shoulder blades. Microchip implantation takes only a few minutes and is very safe. Each microchip is unique and carries vital information about your pet, including your name, address, and contact information. When a microchip is implanted, the pet owner is given a registration form to complete. Registering the number on the microchip includes your pet in a national pet recovery database. Veterinary hospitals, animal shelters, and animal control offices nationwide have special electronic scanners that detect the microchip and read the identification number. If a lost pet is picked up by animal control or found by a good Samaritan and presented to a veterinarian, a quick microchip scan reveals the identification number. A toll-free phone call to the pet recovery database alerts the microchip company that a lost pet has been identified. The pet owner can then be contacted and reunited with his or her pet!
Young puppies and kittens can receive microchips, but even if your pet is already an adult, you should consider microchipping. Even indoor pets can get outside accidentally and get lost, so relying on other forms of identification could put your pet at risk. Microchipping is a safe, effective way to help ensure your pet’s return if the unthinkable happens.
At Admiral Veterinary Hospital, we provide more than simply a service. We also provide assurance. Your pet’s safety will be our main priority if you choose us for pet microchipping in Farragut, Tennessee. Make an appointment with us immediately to get started on securing your pet’s safety.