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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) The City of Rochester’s Animal Services is providing microchip scanners around the city in an effort to help owners reunite with their lost pets.
The scanners will be distributed to Neighborhood Service Centers, R-Centers and pet stores around the city.
Rochester’s Animal Services provides microchips for all of the pets it adopts out and all pets supported through its Pets for Life and Pet Support programs. It also holds periodic microchipping and vaccination clinics.
Click here to find locations with microchip scanners.
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Animals Matter: Please don t give pets as surprise gifts
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Unless you have the recipient’s buy-in about a Christmas pet and they know what to expect in terms of care costs, please think of another gift.kajakiki /Getty Images
While I normally don’t mind if people give pets as gifts if they are parents giving to children or adult children giving to parents or spouses or partners giving to each other (or some other mutually consenting relationship), I often caution against people giving pets as gifts in general.
Unless you know someone really well and discussed the potential gift idea in advance, not everyone is ready for the surprise or the financial obligation that comes with having a pet. That gift might even be less welcome during the pandemic.