COMPANION ANIMAL RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

IT TAKES ONLY A MOMENT...
A door left ajar, an unlatched gate. You look away for just a second or two, and your precious pet is gone. And then comes the sorrow, the worry, guilt, the expense of a search. You love your pet as a member of the family, and you can't help but miss the special joy he or she brings into your life every day.

Sadly, this painful drama is played out in millions of households every year, and too many of those lost pets never make it back home.

But things are changing now. Finally, there is a pet-retrieval system that can greatly increase the chances of you and your beloved pet being reunited, thanks to the Home Again Companion Animal Retrieval System.

WHAT IS HomeAgain?
HomeAgain is the most complete pet-retrieval system available - providing safe, lifelong identification and enhancing the chances of retrieving a lost pet. This system is available through veterinarians.

HomeAgain is brought to you by Schering-Plough Animal Health, a company with more than 40 years of experience in animal health.

HOW WILL HomeAgain PROTECT MY PET?
Permanent identification is provided by a tiny microchip that can be implanted quickly and safely in your dog or cat. The microchip, approximately the size of a grain of rice (2 x 11 mm), is programmed with a unique, unalterable code that can be identified with a hand-held scanner (similar to the hand-held scanners used in grocery stores). These scanners are in use at thousands of veterinarians' offices, animal shelters, and animal-control agencies around the country.

When your lost pet is brought to one of these locations, the HomeAgain identification code is retrieved and called in to the AKC Companion Animal Recovery Data Base. This data base is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through a central 800 number. You are contacted immediately, and every possible step will be taken to reunite you and your pet.

WILL I BE ENTERED INTO THE NETWORK AUTOMATICALLY?
Once your pet gets the HomeAgain microchip, all you have to do is pay a low, one-time registration fee of $28.00 to ensure lifetime registration for your pet. You also will be given a HomeAgain collar tag with the data-base 800 number and a unique, individualized identification code. There is a nominal charge if you need to change the information on your pet (eg, address, phone number, etc.).

The data-base network is expertly managed by the American Kennel Club, Inc. (AKC), an organization with more than 100 years of experience in maintaining animal registries. The AKC maintains the nation's largest high-tech data base of purebred dogs. Registration in the AKC Companion Animal Recovery Data Base is available to all dogs and cats, regardless of breed.