Micro-Chipping & De-Sexing your Dog

MICROCHIPPING
Why microchip?
Microchipping uses technology to identify pets through an effective combination of a hidden microchip under their skin and an easily read collar tag, also with its own unique number. These unique numbers are permanently linked on the recovery database. giving your pet the best chance of a quick return home should it stray.
Benefits of microchipping
Every year, thousands of pets go missing, causing their ‘families’ considerable anguish and expense. Microchips are currently the best form of identification for your pet, but only veterinarians, animal shelters and animal pounds have access to the special microchip readers. Protect your pet by registering both its microchip number and the collar tag number with a recovery network database.
The best protection for a pet is reliable identification, and that means a microchip because a microchip cannot be removed,changed or defaced. A microchip means a lifetime of positive identification
for your pet. Once a pet is microchipped. it is essential its owner’s current contact details are accurately recorded on a recovery database. Recovery networks generally provide a national 24 hour, seven days a week service, year round.
Your personal information is securely kept and is only provided in the strictest confidence to veterinarians. animal shelters and animal pounds to help reunite you with you lost pet.

What is a microchip?
A microchip used in pet identification is about the size of a grain of rice. It is electronically imprinted with a unique and unalterable numeric/alphanumeric code. usually 10 to 15 digits long.
Check on line for Pet identification service providers in Australia.

DESEXING
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world. Four out of five Australians have owned a pet at some time and almost two-thirds of Australian households currently own pets. Despite these figures, hundreds of thousands of healthy cats and dogs are euthanased each year in pounds and shelters nationwide. Due to the ongoing problem of pet overpopulation, these healthy, loving animals are being killed because there are not enough homes available.
There are many reasons why pet owners should desex their pets. As well as helping to stop pet overpopulation. the following are some of the other benefits associated with desexing cats and dogs.
Health
Desexing your pet will:
.reduce the risk of cancer or other diseases of the reproductive organs, such as testicular cancer and prostate cancer/disorders in males, and cystic ovaries and ovarian tumours in females
.reduce the risk of acute uterine infections and breast cancer
in females, and other diseases like mammary cancer, perianal tumours and perianal hamias
.prevent females from suffering the physical and nutritional exhaustion of continual breeding
.’ give them the best chance of living longer and healthier lives.

Behavioural
Desexed pets are:
.less prone to wander, fight, and are less likely to get lost
or injured
.less likely to suffer from anti-social behaviours (they become more affectionate and become better companions).
This is why at Dog Day Care with Hound Dog, we only take de-sexed Dogs in our group, as we have found they are far more social within the Pack Structure.

Thankyou for taking the time to read our Blog and we’ll see you again soon,
The Pack Leaders
Leah & Angela OMeara (Hound Dog Day Care Brisbane)