It is extremely important that your pets are properly vaccinated. While rabies is rare, it is a serious and often fatal disease. Distemper can also be fatal. Microchips are tiny, about the size of a grain of rice, that enables CVHS or an Animal Control Officer to use a small scanner to read your information off of the chip so you can be notified that your pet has been found. Countless pets find their way back home because of microchips. Microchips do not transmit information, and only someone with a scanner can read the information.
Looking for vaccine clinics?
- Check with your Town Clerk, many towns offer vaccine clinics in the spring.
- Tractor Supply on the Barre/Montpelier Road (352 River St. Montpelier VT, 05602) typically holds one clinic each month, check their website.
- Humane Society of Chittenden County and North Country Animal League in Lamoille County both offer vaccines by appointment.