Dr. Lera Clone demonstrates microchipping a dog, a quick implant that provides ID if your pet is lost. The chip isn't GPS and needs a scanner to read it. Registration costs $15–$25 yearly, and the procedure uses a 22-gauge needle for the rice-grain-sized implant.
February 12, 2020
Dr. Lera Clone at Arian Lakes Animal Hospital
Bert and Shadow
Approximately $15 to $25 per year
22 gauge (to accommodate a rice-grain-sized microchip)
Good afternoon, My name is Dr. Larratt here at Arian Lakes Animal Hospital. Today I'm here with Bert and Shadow. Shadow today is here for microchipping. And so microchipping, the purpose of it is to go ahead and have some sort of identification device on your pet that if they happen to get lost, stolen, or happen to get away from you, that they will be able to be identified as your particular pet. Now, the one thing that I will tell you when people go ahead and have micro chips implanted in their dog is crucial that you go ahead and register your dog and keep up the registration information or the contact information with the company. I've seen it so many times where dogs will have a microchip implanted in them and then it's not registered. Or even, or worst case, or even. Worst case scenario is they will have the contact information registered, but it'll be old information, it won't be new information. So you've gone through all that stuff to go ahead and have your dog implanted with a microchip and then you go ahead and you don't register it. So very, very important. It's not that expensive. I want to say it's probably between 15 to $25 a year to go ahead and have them registered. And typically it doesn't necessarily have to be with the exact company who makes the chip. A lot of times you're able to go ahead and register with other companies who go ahead and provide other services like sending out notices to everyone who has that particular kind of chip. They also have apps so you can put alerts on there. Those are some of the different ways to go ahead and identify where, which pet is, how to get a contact in that particular owner. So the other thing that I want to show you today is when we actually implant the microchip, it is a sizable needle. And so if you come over here, I'm going to show you this particular needle right here. This is what we call a 22 gauge needle. Okay. This is a very, very pretty small needle. The needle that we use for the microchip has to be big enough to go through a grain, has to be big enough to have a grain of rice right there. Okay. I know, Shadow, trust me, you're not going to want to see this later. This, this is the needle that we have to use for the microchip. And as you can see, the needle is fairly large. Now normally what we will do is the way that I explain it to people is it's like a piercing. So typically what we're going to do is it's going to be a 1, 2, 3, and that's it kind of deal. And so we usually don't use any local anesthetic. We don't use any sort of sedative, because it is something that is going to cause more issues, more stress than it's really worth. Okay? The other thing I want you to know is that this is not a GPS tracker. I repeat, a not a GPS tracker. This is something that will only identify, that will be able to identify if people use a scanner. There are different kinds of microchip scanners, and if you notice, I'm going to see. So there it goes ahead and identifies the number versus if we go ahead and we look and we can't find it, going to say no ID found. All right, so what we're going to do now is we're going to go ahead and place this microchip in him. You guys are going to watch this. We're going to see how this goes. And fingers crossed, it'll work out great. All right, so here we go. Alejandro, I think you might need to help Bert, but we'll see how this goes. All right, let's see. One, two, three. That's it. Shadow was a champ. A champ. If somebody came at me with this needle, I would be screaming like a little girl. Okay, so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead, we're gonna scan the area, make sure that the microchip is still in there. Come here, Shadow. Good boy. And the microchip is in there. Now, the other thing that I want you to know is it is very common for them to bleed after we implant the chip. And no blood, so don't freak out if your dog is bleeding afterwards, Typically, just put some pressure on it. That will usually help stop the bleeding. Otherwise, as you saw with Shadow, didn't really hurt very much. But I'm sure it does cause some discomfort. If somebody told you that it didn't, they're lying. But Shadow handle it like a champ. So if you guys have any questions about this particular video, leave it in the comment box. If you found this video helpful, give us a thumbs up. Subscribe and share. Thanks for watching and have a great day. Good boy, Shadow.
