How does pet microchip ID work to reunite pets with owners?

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If someone finds your lost pet, they take the pet to a veterinarian’ss office and they have a scanner. They scan it the way you scan a barcode in a store, and it tells them if there’s a name and address of an owner. If there’s no chip, then an animal shelter may hold the pet for a certain amount of time to see if an owner comes forward.

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