PORTAGE COUNTY, USA: Microchips are revolutionizing our lives in many ways. From wildlife tracking to medical diagnosis, the importance of microchip is increasing day by day in our routine life. And there is no need to mention the revolution it is bringing about in the IT front.

However, in this story happened in the United States, a microchip proved to be highly helpful in  tracking a pet dog and reuniting him with his family after three years.

The Humane Society of Portage County, in the U.S. state of Ohio, picked up the golden Labrador last week as it wandered with another dog, says the Associated Press.
 
The shelter's executive director Jennifer Blum says few stray dogs in that area have owner-identifying microchips embedded. But this dog's chip led the staff to the unidentified family.

According to Wausau Daily Herald, Jack is a golden Labrador the Humane Society picked up on December 22 after receiving a call that he and a shepherd mix were wandering along Dewey Drive in the town of Dewey.

Outfitting an animal with a microchip is still a relatively uncommon practice despite the ease and low cost, Blum told the newspaper. The chip, about the size of a grain of rice, is implanted under the skin in the animal's neck. Each chip has a unique code of numbers and letters that can be scanned at a humane society or veterinarian and used to identify the animal's owner.

The humane society can implant the chip for $20, and then the owner must register with the manufacturer to be added to the universal database used to identify the pet, said the organization.