Lucky Dog Animal Rescue Highlights the Lifesaving Importance of Permanent Pet ID during National Microchip Month

Florence, S.C., June 26, 2025 — Lucky Dog Animal Rescue urges pet owners to  microchip their pets this June as part of National Microchip Month.  Microchips are an essential way to identify and reunite pets with their families should they go missing. While a collar with ID tag may fall off or be unreadable, microchips are a reliable way for owner information to stay with the pet.  Contrary to popular belief, microchips do not provide real-time tracking. If your pet is already microchipped, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue urges you to confirm your registration information is current.  

June was designated as National Microchip Month to raise awareness of the importance of microchipping and how it can help pets like lovely Lilly, who was lost for six long weeks before her microchip helped her get home.

Lilly is a gorgeous lynx point Siamese cat who had been lost in South Carolina for weeks. Her frantic owner had almost given up hope that she’d ever find her again. But several weeks after going missing, Lilly found her way to Lucky Dog’s Rescue Campus where staff discovered her microchip and contacted her worried Mom. She is home safely now and her story illustrates how microchips save lives and reunite families.

A microchip is a tiny device, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted under a pet's skin that provides permanent identification and helps reunite lost pets with their owners. It’s not a tracking device, but contains an identification number that connects to the owner's contact  information, either in a database at the shelter or clinic where the chip was implanted, or in a registry belonging to the microchip company. While a microchip is a fantastic backup form of identification if an external collar and tags come off, it’s vital for owners to make sure their contact information is current with the clinic, shelter or registry that stores their information.

According to Shelter Animals Count, a national database of animal sheltering data, of the nearly 6 million dogs and cats that entered shelters in 2024, 60% of them came in as strays, and sadly, only 11% of them were returned to their owners. Microchipping can help ensure more pets like Lilly are returned quickly and safely to his or her family.

Lucky Dog provides microchips free of charge at vaccine clinics. The next vaccine clinic will be offered July 25, 2025.
Learn more about Lucky Dog’s mission and how to help at www.luckydoganimalrescue.org.