Microchipping
This service is available to owners of dogs, cats, rabbits and ferrets.
What is microchipping?
Microchipping is where a tiny chip the size of a grain of rice is inserted below the skin. This chip has it's own personal number which is either 10 or 15 digits long. This number is then registered with petlog so that if the animal goes missing anyone with a scanner can scan the microchip, phone petlog and reunite you with your lost pet.
Microchipping gives you peace of mind and is a quick, permanent way of identifying your pet.
What's included?
When your pet is microchipped you will be given a collar tag, leaflets about microchipping and the pet log premium service and basic registration with petlog, the national database.
I recommend that once you get your dog microchipped that you join petlog premium. To join you make a one off payment to petlog and then if your dog goes missing all the petlog premium partners within a 30 mile radius are informed. Once you have upgraded you will not have to pay them if you change address and you can notify them when you go on holiday so that they know where the dog has been if you loose it while you are away.
Microchip scanning
After your pet has been microchipped you should check their chip regularly by scanning it to ensure that it hasn’t migrated. I recommend that you get them scanned once or twice a year so that you have peace of mind that they are fully protected. I offer to scan your dog free of charge to ensure that the microchip is still in the correct position when your dog is here being groomed.