Oct 11 2008
Denver Area Shelters Giving Away Free Microchips
Denver area animal shelters are beginning their Chip Your Cat campaign! I think this is such a great idea and program.
The Denver Dumb Friends League, the Denver Area Veterinary Medical Society, and participating members of the Metro Denver Shelter Alliance are participating in the campaign. The Chip Your Cat program is being sponsored by HomeAgain and Bayer resQ, and will provide 150,000 microchips and lifetime registration to cat owners in Adams, Denver, Jefferson, Arapahoe, Broomfield, and Douglas counties over the next year.
The shelters hope to promote the significance of having your cat microchipped as well as promoting the image of cats as pets. According tot he president of the Dumb Friends League, Bob Rohde only 10% of cats who are brought into shelters are reunited with their owners. He hopes the program will help reunite more lost cats with their owners.
I think this program is excellent. I have both of my cats microchopped to increase the chances they will find their way back to me if they ever, Heaven forbid, got lost.
To find a location participating in this program, please visit the Chip Your Cat website.
Please tell me what you think in the comments section below!
Source:
Cat Channel: Denver Shelters Start Microchip Program
