Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Do it, man.

I used to volunteer at a shelter. Every dog and cat that came in was checked for a chip. You'd be surprised how often those chips would save an animal and reunite them with their owner.

A couple I remember were a dog that the owner's neighbor was supposed to be caring for while the owner was on vacation. The neighbor got arrested for some kind of old warrant, the dog escaped and he would have been euthanized if not for the chip. We got the dog out of the shelter and into the foster system where he remained for almost two weeks before we could get in contact with the owner.

The best was a dog who had been registered to an owner in Arizona. The dog ended up at our shelter in SW Kansas. We figured the owners moved with the dog but when we made contact we found that the dog had been stolen from their back yard almost two years earlier. The owner flew up and got his dog the following day.

You never know what's going to happen. Get the chip.