If a lost pet is found, a chip reader is used to gather information via radio frequency. That information about the pet's owner and contact information has to be registered by owners. "The ...

Jefferson Protection and Animal Welfare Services installed the first of seven microchip scanning stations at Eastbank ...

And they will use microchip readers to do it. The animal shelter raised funds to buy nine scanners for different fire departments throughout the county. The fire departments are not responsible ...

If a lost pet is found, a vet or shelter can scan them for a chip, which will transmit the identification number to the scanner and provide the owners’ information.

Anyone who scans the back of the cat named Herb’s neck with a universal microchip reader will know he lives at the Connecticut Humane Society. Executive director James Bias showed us how it ...

NO REMOVAL OR REPLACEMENT IS NEEDED. THE MICROCHIP IS JUST A NUMBER, SO WHEN YOU SCAN IT, IT’S GOING TO SHOW UP AS A NUMBER ON OUR SCANNER. AND THEN WE CHECK THAT AGAINST THE DATABASES.