Microchipping

WALK IN, NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED:

Mon-Fri 9:30am to 12:00pm & 1:30pm to 3:30pm

MICROCHIP COST: $25.00

Animal Samaritans Clinic provides Microchipping for your companion animals. This simple procedure has been proven to be of tremendous value in the painful event of a lost pet. The procedure is quick and painless. The tiny microchip (about the size of a grain of rice) has an identification number encoded into it and is coated with a bio-compatible material. The microchip fits inside a hypodermic needle t and then injected or implanted under the skin of your animal. The procedure is painless, and no anesthesia or sedation is required.

Each chip is encoded with a unique number that can be read by a scanner. All of the Animal Control and Animal Welfare Organizations here in the Coachella Valley have scanners available to them. If your pet is scanned and a microchip is found, the facility will call one or several of the pet recovery database services and you will be contacted by phone.

Currently we sell Avid microchips, so we recommend their registry database (Global PetTrac Database) at the time of adoption or implantation of the chip. Other registry services are not as able to track where the microchip was sold originally. At the time we implant the microchip it is registered to Animal Samaritans. Unless you register with a national service, Animal Samaritans will be contacted to provide the "Owner Information."

The Avid database registry and additional information on microchipping can be found on their Website:

http://www.avidid.com/index.html

REMEMBER! The Microchip is only as good as the information available in the database! You must keep your address and phone information up to date. If you decide not to register with a national database then you must keep your information current with Animal Samaritans. When your pet is lost and you are not registered with Avid PetTrac they contact Animal Samaritans and we have to be able to provide current information to locate the owner.

We recommend that you list a second or backup contact with Avid PetTrac from another state, or far from your residency in the event of a major disaster.