TOPEKA (KSNT) - A new microchip technology is coming to Topeka to help people reunite with their lost pets faster.
Helping Hands Humane Society is installing microchip scanning stations around Topeka over the next few weeks. One station is currently available at the humane society while the others will be up soon at the bark park at Gage Park and at SENT Topeka at Fellowship Hi-Crest in Southeast Topeka.
You can scan the animal and if a microchip is detected, you can be connected with the pet's owner.
"To be able to have a way that people who encounter loose or stray dogs can get that pet back to their owner without bringing it to the shelter," Helping Hands director of philanthropy Grace Clinton said. "Our hope is that we'll see our intake of stray animals decline substantially in the next year or two as these pickup."
The humane society says it had this concept for a while and Trak Roofing and Construction quickly helped build the boxes to bring the idea to life.
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