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Charity Donates Chip Reader to W.O. Boro
Device will help recover lost dogs, cats
By T.J. Martin
The Tube City Almanac
August 14, 2024
Posted in: White Oak News
Lost dogs and cats that are found in White Oak now have a greater chance of being reunited with their owners following a donation from a local animal welfare group to White Oak Borough.
Gray Paws Sanctuary has donated a microchip reader to the borough. The case containing the reader, a handheld device that looks somewhat like a magnifying glass, will be mounted to a wall in the municipal building lobby so that it will be available for use 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The device will be attached to the case by a cable and the lobby is also monitored by a security camera.
Microchips are about the size of a grain of rice and placed beneath the skin of dogs and cats, usually between the shoulders, by a veterinarian using a syringe, similar to giving an animal a vaccination.
The donated reader is a universal reader that, when passed over a chip, can read an identification number from a chip made by any of several manufacturers. Then a chip registry can be called and, if the chip was registered, that registry will contact the animal’s owner to let him or her know their pet has been found and give them contact information for the finder so that they can retrieve the animal.
Gray Paws Sanctuary is a non-profit rescue organization dedicated to help older dogs. According to its website, most of the dogs in their care are from “private owners in crisis.” Were it not for the sanctuary, the dogs would often by euthanized because of their age and veterinary care costs.
Originally published August 14, 2024.
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