They should. Obviously we don't know what all their policies are, but generally the first thing that we do with a found animal is to automatically scan them for a microchip, and a lot of the shelters in the local area have that as their policy. That’s because the microchip will not only help them know if the dog has an owner, but it will hopefully also help reunite you with your dog.

It won't—there's not a GPS microchip at this point. It will just give the number to whoever scans it. They make GPS tags that can go on your dog’s callar and they can do a bit more as far as tracking them, but not just yet with those microchips.

The microchip is going to be an identification source for them. Although you have your collars and tags, the microchip is a permanent ID so no one can remove it, they can't slip out of it. The dog does have to be taken to a shelter or to a vet's office or to someone that does have access to one of those microchip scanners. But as soon as that microchip is scanned, that number will pop up, and then whoever has scanned that is able to get in contact with the microchip company and indirectly get back to you as far as getting your contact info.

Only if the company will be contacted. So you are nice and secure knowing that your dog just has their own personal number and that your contact info is only with that microchip company.

It's a tool that we can use that we basically can go onto AAHA's website and enter in that microchip number. There are a lot of different microchip companies out there. HomeAgain is just one of them. And so by being able to enter that in, we can identify what company that it originates from because every number is different as far as usually the first three digits. So it'll allow whoever's looking at that number to know what company to contact, to better get in touch with you.