• One Health
  • Pain Management
  • Oncology
  • Anesthesia
  • Geriatric & Palliative Medicine
  • Ophthalmology
  • Anatomic Pathology
  • Poultry Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Dermatology
  • Theriogenology
  • Nutrition
  • Animal Welfare
  • Radiology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Small Ruminant
  • Cardiology
  • Dentistry
  • Feline Medicine
  • Soft Tissue Surgery
  • Urology/Nephrology
  • Avian & Exotic
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Anesthesiology & Pain Management
  • Integrative & Holistic Medicine
  • Food Animals
  • Behavior
  • Zoo Medicine
  • Toxicology
  • Orthopedics
  • Emergency & Critical Care
  • Equine Medicine
  • Pharmacology
  • Pediatrics
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Shelter Medicine
  • Parasitology
  • Clinical Pathology
  • Virtual Care
  • Rehabilitation
  • Epidemiology
  • Fish Medicine
  • Diabetes
  • Livestock
  • Endocrinology

Practice tip: Who to pick for a secondary contact

Article

Veterinary clients often pick a spouse or child as a secondary contact for a pet's microchip, but what happens when the entire family is away from home? Practice manager Brent Dickinson encourages a different method for selecting secondary contacts.

(fotowebbox/stock.adobe.com)

Most microchip registration forms require a secondary contact, a person who can be called if a pet's owner isn't available.

We remind clients that they should utilize a trusted neighbor or nearby relative for their secondary contact, instead of their own spouse or children, as it is very common for them to be together or out of the house at the same time.

Prior to implementing this system, we commonly saw registrations with the same phone number listed for both the primary and secondary contacts, which is pretty useless!

Brent Dickinson

Dickinson-McNeill Veterinary Clinic

Chesterfield, NJ

Related Videos
© 2024 MJH Life Sciences

All rights reserved.