Get your dog microchipped

The Dogs Trust team will be at the Longwood Road store from 11am until 3pm.

Anyone interested can get their dog microchipped for just 9.50. There is no need to register, owners should just come along to the store with their dogs.

Ronnie Milsop, Campaigns Manager for Dogs Trust in Northern Ireland, explained: “Microchipping is quick and easy and is the most effective way to permanently identify a dog. Dogs Trust believes that it is also the best way to help reduce the stray dog problem in Northern Ireland and to help reunite lost pets with their owners. Our microchipping events are always popular and we look forward to seeing many Newtownabbey dogs and their owners on Saturday.”

A microchip is a small electronic device, the size of a grain of rice, which is implanted under the skin between a dog’s shoulder blades. The microchip is coded with a unique number that is stored on a database and which can be read by a scanner. If a dog is ever lost its owner can then easily be traced.