It’s a legal requirement for your dog to be microchipped. Discover all you need to know.

A microchip is a small electronic chip, around the size of a grain of rice, which is implanted under the dog’s skin and contains a unique number that can be read by a scanner. 

The dog / pet owner’s contact details relating to each number are logged on a central database, so should the dog / pet ever go missing or be stolen it can be scanned by the authorities and returned to his owner swiftly and safely.

It is vital that the owner takes responsibility for updating their details with the database should their circumstances change.