Please, please, please if you have a pet and it isn't microchipped, get it done. It isn't pricey and the local shelters often do free days.
We have a doggy guest for the night and it would be so much easier to find it's owner if it had been chipped.

Couldn't agree more!

Just moved to upstate New York and our Jack Russell escaped within days of being here....he didn't get as far as being taken to the SPCA but they were on the way to get him from someone up the road when we called him in...the most horrendous sleepless night ever

We found her owners thanks to our posters. The first thing we did was take her to a local vets to get her chip read though. She had lost her tags.

I just took my dog to be microchipped today after reading this thread

Our local vet charges $100 for microchipping, but our local shelter has microchipping facilities so they can chip all the rescue cats, and were happy to do ours for a donation.

Good work. We avoided phoning the county animal unit at all costs as they put down unmicrochipped dogs after 72 hours. We found a shelter that would have taken her had we not been able to find her owners.