The Humane Society of McCormick County: Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

We bought a universal microchip scanner.

We use this scanner at our adoption events to show the adopter the microchip number. We also used the microchip scanner at our Bark in the Park event on Oct. 6, 2018. Many of our residents at the retirement community Savannah Lakes Village are retired and have moved there from out of state. We handed out information on numbers to call to update their chip's registration. We also keep the scanner in the HSMC van so we can scan dogs found on the road instead of having to drive them 26 miles to the closest veterinarian.

How many pets did this grant help?

50

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

We found a loose dog who had a microchip. The phone number was not active, but we emailed the owner and he immediately responded. The owner was in Texas because his father had passed away and he was arranging the funeral. He did not even know his dog was missing. We are keeping Miz Puppy at the shelter until he returns. The scanner was vital because if we had not reached the owner, we would have put the dog in the shelter as one of our dogs and adopted him out.