[Susan]

Hi.
Mircochipping a dog is NOT painful, I help all the time with mircochiping dogs, a microchip is about the size of a grain of rice a little bit longer in length…..You get the thick section of skin around the back of the dog or cat neck above shoulder blades (where the mother dog lifts & carries her pup) you hold up the dog thick part of skin, get the very sharp disposable Mircochip implanter, remove cover & quickly push under the dogs skin & pull back out, done finshed, it’s not painful at all, dogs & cats don’t even flinch while being M/C, I think having a vaccine injection is more painful, I see more dogs flinch & turn to look where they’re getting their vaccination injection then when a dog gets a M/C implanted…
My Patch is a rescue & was Microchipped, his M/C paper work told me he was 3 months old when he was M/C, had his date of birth, breed, owners details, (owner never collected him) ….I’m glad he was M/C, I know his DOB, that’s somthing that doesnt happen very much with rescued dogs & cats, had his original name, even though he didn’t answer & know his name was Patch 4yrs later when I rescued him, it gave the rescue vet some clues that he had probably had had a few different owners in his 4 yrs of life but after I reed his M/C paper work & it was his Birthday the day I pulled him from the pound, his kill day, I renamed him “Patch” again cause he was one very very lucky Staffy not to have been put to sleep that day….