My Bailey is microchipped. It was done at the humane society for about ten dollars. All of shelters scan here and I was also told by the humane society that all of the police cars also have the scanners. My boyfriends husky is an escape artist and the microchip has helped him to be returned home on the one occassion that he got away from us. They also wear the tag on their collars. And I know that this doesn't happen very often, but I have heard of dogs having the tattoo scraped off by sick individuals. There is a lot of animal cruelty here in Tucson.
