National Microchipping Month Archives

I'm sure there are a few things in this life that you wouldn't mind losing, (I certainly could do with losing a few pounds off the waistline) but losing one of your dogs, doesn't even bear thinking about. It can happen in so many ways: an open door, an unlocked gate, a romp off-lead in a field. In a split second, your pet can go missing. Sometimes a pet finds its way home on its own. More often, though, a lost pet remains lost. The main cause: lack of identification. You can greatly increase your chances of finding your wandering pet by making sure it has identification at all times. The standard collar and identification tag are a must. But you should also consider the added insurance of a modern microchip, a permanent identification technique that successfully reunites hundreds of pets and owners every year. A microchip is an invisible form of identification. The chips are the size of a grain of rice and contain a unique ISO standard number. This number is recognise…

Senior canines have called upon the government to microchip dangerous human beings, who they claim to be a “menace to dog society”. The proposal was made at the Kennel Clubs recent AGM round-table discussion on the future of canine-human relations. “Basically, some of them are nutters,” said Mr Fluffy, a 6-year-old Poodle from Poole in Dorset. “I mean, my owner’s OK – she’s in her sixties and wouldn’t harm a fly – but you see them hanging around on street corners with these things hanging out of their mouths, making all these strange noises. If I did that, I tell you what, they’d put me down!” Rex, a 4-year-old Labrador, from Lincoln barked his agreement, adding that “the Dangerous Humans act should be enacted as soon as possible. I sniffed one the other day who had clearly peed himself, and he was foaming at the mouth. Drinking in public, too – these humans should be microchipped so that we can tell where they are at all times. They disgust me.” A number of dogs were …

National Microchipping Month

June is National Microchipping Month (NMM)

Dogs call for dangerous human beings to be microchipped