Microchips are the best back up for a collar and visible identification tag. All pets, even indoor-cats, should wear an ID tag with a contact number on it, preferably your cell number.
Microchips are a safe, permanent way to identify your cat. Having your pet injected with a microchip greatly increases the chances he or she will be returned to you when lost.
To detect a microchip, which is a small computer chip (about the size of a rice grain) injected between the animal’s shoulder blades, the animal must be scanned and the unique identification number will be read. This number is entered into a database and the owner can easily be contacted.
CAT microchips all cats adopted through our shelter.