June is Microchipping Month

hethmar

If anyone has a pet which needs chipping (and PLEASE microchip, it could save such a lot of heart ache, let alone an animal being put to sleep, if they go missing) June is subsidised chipping month. I know our vet is charging only £9 - so check out your local offers.

whamfanuk

theres a place in worksop doing it for free this saturday

emlou2009

Thanks for this, just checked with my local vet who are doing it for £10 per animal this month. Had been meaning to do this for a while!

balletshoes

Do cats have to be a certain age before you can microchip them? We are picking up our kitten on Friday, but he will only be 7 weeks then. Is that too young?

hmc

been having a ring round, various prices in nth lincs not all vets discounting.
my dog is ear tattood and n a register but i wonder if its enough,he wears a tag with tattoo register number on but if he lost his collar would anyone look in his ear

beckster84

hmc- maybe get him chipped aswell? Extra piece of mind

PDC

I was only reading this yesterday seeing the posts here

http://www.dogsmonthly.co.uk/2010/06/08/pros-and-cons-of-microchipping-%e2%80%93-be-informed/

Makes you wonder what to do for the best?

hethmar

Hmm, well I appreciate the article is written in good faith and I dont know whether a chip could cause cancer but they do seem to be scraping around for the horror stories dont they? One in UK, one in Tennasee and one in Australia?

SiuLoong

It really upsets me to see stories like this based on circumstantial evidence at best putting doubt in peoples minds when microchipping has such massive benefits. Nothing is without ANY risk but where do you stop?! It reads like it was written by a Daily Mail journalist... I'd recommend anyone who is concerned by these articles read 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre.

I am a vet and the only problems I have seen with chips have been those that have been implanted incorrectly, either into the skin rather than beneath it or into muscle and have been solved by either antibiotics or removal of said chip and are a small price to pay for the number of reunited owners and potential lives saved.

TehJumpingJawa

What's the recurring cost for keeping your microchipped pet on the database?

kazaimee

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

What's the recurring cost for keeping your microchipped pet on the database?

I've had my cat chipped for 8yrs now & we've moved house too & I've not had to pay anything more than the initial chipping.