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Article: Microchips result in higher rate of return of shelter animals to owners.
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- NewsRx Health & Science
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- November 15, 2009
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Animals shelter officials housing lost pets that had been implanted with a microchip were able to find the owners in almost three out of four cases in a recently published national study.
According to the research, the return-to-owner rate for cats was 20 times higher and for dogs 2 1/2 times higher for microchipped pets than were the rates of return for all stray cats and dogs that had entered the shelters.
"This is the first time there has been good data about the success of shelters finding the owners of pets with microchips," said Linda Lord, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of veterinary preventive medicine at Ohio State ...