WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA)--It's a pet owner's worst fear. Your 4-legged family member goes missing. You put up "Missing" signs and put ads in newspapers and post to the web. But as 9NEWS NOW's Andrea McCarren discovered, there's one preventative step you can take as well--micro-chipping.
If your missing pet ends up at the Washington Humane Society, the first thing staffers will do is scan it for a microchip.
"The microchip is just extra insurance," says Lisa Carroll with the Washington Humane Society.
The chip is the size of a grain of rice that holds all the information necessary to reunite a lost pet with its owner.
"It makes a huge difference. We get animals in all the time and it's so much faster to find that previous owner if that animal has been micro-chipped and the owner has registered the chip," says Carroll.
Every animal here gets a chip before being put up for adoption. We watched as Remy had her chip implanted. It took no longer than it takes for an animal to get a shot.
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