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Personal message from Sharon Ní Bheoláin

Chip it, Check it

For many years I worked at the coal face of animal rescue; taking dogs from the pound when their owners couldn’t be traced and euthanasia was to be their fate.

I recall hundreds of beautiful pets; but not a single microchip led reunification.

Thankfully the animal welfare landscape has improved since then. Destruction numbers are considerably lower and microchipping is now part and parcel of responsible pet ownership. However there are hundreds of thousands of dogs still un-chipped and as many as 200,000 dogs  with an incorrectly registered microchip. Were any one of those pets to stray or even be stolen a reunification would prove impossible.

September is National Chipping Month: for those who haven’t microchipped their dog they can avail of thousands of free and reduced price microchip offers.

If your pet is already chipped; check your details are accurate and up to date free of charge.

Remember your pet would be lost without it. Log on to www.chipcheck.ie, or follow on Facebook and Twitter.”

How cool is this?

Even Minister Simon Coveney is talking about NCM. He tweeted the following earlier:

@simoncoveney 1st Sept starts National Chipping Month, info about new laws & free dog chipping in Sept http://tinyurl.com/pdm2cpe  #Chipcheck

Thanks for that Minister!

Keep spreading the word.

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Hello everybody,

It’s so good to be back here again for another National Chipping Month. This year NCM is even more important because now the new Microchipping of Dogs Regulations are in place.

Throughout the month of September, I’ll be giving you information about what the new regulations mean for dog owners. And of course I’ll be telling you about the great microchipping events going on around the country.

Once again my friends in Dogs Trust are on board and are doing great work promoting this month. They are even giving free microchips to vets all over the country so if your four-legged friend still isn’t microchipped, keep an eye on this website for details of all the veterinary practices around the country where you can make an appointment and have your pooch chipped Free Of Charge!!! Sounds good to me!

Talk to you all soon

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