November 20, 2020
2020-11-20T11:00:00
Reston Bible Church Parking Lot, 45650 Oakbrook Ct, Sterling, VA 20166
45650 Oakbrook Ct
Sterling, VA 20166
This clinic is free for all Loudoun residents.
Free Microchip Clinic
Friday, November 20, 2020
Loudoun residents are invited to bring their cats and dogs over 8 weeks of age to this free microchip clinic. Cats must be in carriers and dogs on non-retractable leashes. This clinic will be drive through to allow for social distancing, please bring a face covering.
Microchips are a safe, permanent way of identifying pets should they ever be found by Animal Services or a veterinary office. The microchip itself is about the size of a grain of rice. It is implanted under the skin in the area around the shoulders through a needle. The procedure is no more invasive than a vaccination shot, and requires no anesthesia or recovery time. Once implanted, the number on the chip is registered with the owner’s information. The microchip can be read by a scanner (similar to a bar code scanner) and provides a unique number for animal shelters, veterinarians, and rescues to trace the microchip back to the owner in order to reunite them with their pet. A microchip is not a GPS unit.