Microchips are tags pets will always leave home with

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Amber Hemphill's 6-month-old boxer, Heide, ran away from home several weeks ago. Hemphill and Heide were reunited with the aid of a microchip implanted under the dog's skin.

http://www.omaha.com/living/microchips-are-tags-pets-will-always-leave-home-with/article_d22ca02d-ea12-5da6-a4b8-8b5291af9a47.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015 1:00 AM
By Blake Ursch / World-Herald staff writer

Three weeks ago, Amber Hemphill returned home from work to find one of her dogs missing from the yard.

Frantic, she asked her neighbors if they’d seen Heide, her 6-month-old boxer. Her search took her to the Nebraska Humane Society.

There was Heide. She wasn’t wearing a collar, but Hemphill proved the dog was hers by presenting paperwork for a blank microchip embedded under Heide’s skin.

Traditionally, pet lovers have designated May as Chip Your Pet Month to promote the practice of tagging dogs, cats and other pets with small microchips encoded with their owners’ information.

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