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Let's talk about licensing and identification of your pets. Every state has different rules
as far as rabies licensure is concerned, so check locally where you are. A lot of states
just require every annual, once a year, or every three year rabies vaccination. What
that does is register your pet. Essentially, you get a certificate for that, and a licensing
tag with a number on it. That number can be traced back to your clinic, or where that
rabies vaccination was given, and thus back to you, in case that pet gets lost. A lot
of companies and a lot of pet stores have these nice little I.D. tags that you can get
made. Some of them are very tough, and and withstand a a lot of trauma to them and and
last a long time. So that can have your pet's identification, your phone number's on it,
that sort of thing. These days, with new technology we have micro chipping, and micro chipping
has revolutionized the way that we have dealt with missing pets. And so, the microchips;
what they do essentially is go under the skin, and they last for a very long time. They're
benign, don't cause any problems, and they can be traced. If your dog becomes lost and
ends up in a shelter, shelters are going to I.D. these pets, scan these pets to try to
find out if they have an I.D. or a chip embedded within them. If they do, that number traces
back to your clinic and to yourself, and you can get back in touch with your animal again.