Animal Control offers sleek microchip implants for pets

It?s not magic, but Anne Arundel County Animal Control can reunite lost pets and their owners with the simple wave of a wand.

More than 100 pet owners came to Anne Arundel County Animal Control on Tuesday evening for its first microchip implanting clinic. Animal-control workers injected a grain-of-rice-sized chip loaded with owner information in the back of each animal?s neck. When Animal Control officers find a lost animal, they can wave a wand-shaped scanner to see if the animal has a microchip implanted, which will bring up the owner?s information.