Why Microchip Your Pet?
Microchipping is the best way to help reunite lost pets with their owners. On average, eight to 10 million pets are lost in the United States each year.1 Only a fraction of those pets, about 22 percent, find their way home after they've reached a shelter.2 That is in large part due to a lack of pet identification.
There are different methods of identifying your pet including collar tags and tattoos, but neither provides a complete solution for lost pets. Collars can be lost, and tattoos can be altered, but microchips are permanent.
Not only is microchipping permanent, but it's also safe and convenient. As easy to administer as a vaccination, the microchip will lasts your pet's lifetime. In the United States, fewer than five percent of pets are microchipped; that small number is due in large part to difficulties in creating a national pet microchip standard. In the United Kingdom, where microchipping is a more prevalent pet safety practice, more than 47 percent of lost dogs make it home, compared to the 22 percent in the United States.1
resQTM features a microchip that is approximately the size of a grain of rice, which is implanted into a pet using a single-use syringe. Each microchip contains a code that is unique and readable by scanners based on the ISO-standard 134.2 kHz frequency. When a lost pet arrives at a shelter, the resQ serial number can be identified and the pet can be traced back to its owner.
The resQ pet identification system utilizes the technology recommended by most major pet welfare organizations in the United States. resQ represents three advancements in the United States pet identification industry:
- resQ uses scanners that read all brands of microchips tested.3
- resQ uses ISO (International Organization for Standardization) compliant microchips for companion animals
- resQ uses a true, no-cost pet registration database
Contact a veterinarian to find out if the resQ system is right for your pet.
1 Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 9CFR Part 2, Docket No. APHIS-2006-0012.
2 "Microchip and tags important for lost pet recovery," Veterinary Forum, September 2007, Vol. 24, No. 9.
3 Third-party test results confirmed that the resQ reader successfully read 200 out of 200 encrypted AVID® microchips, 50 out of 50 unencrypted AVID microchips, and 100 out of 100 HomeAgainTM microchips.