Raleigh Kennel ClubSeptember 11, 2010

The Raleigh Kennel Club has worked with the North Carolina School of Veterinary Medicine for the past 8 years in sponsoring a free microchip clinic. This is being held in conjunction with the Veterinary Students Dog Olympics. We have continued this community activity for 2010 to encourage responsible pet care and ownership.This program has been very popular with the Raleigh / Cary / Durham community, the Veterinary students and our own Raleigh Kennel Club members. It has been used in the past to teach the vet students the value of the AKC Companion Animal Recovery program and the microchip approach in particular. We further believe this to be very important in enhancing a strong cooperative working relationship between AKC affiliated dog clubs and the veterinary teaching community.Furthermore, The Raleigh Kennel Club has paid all of the costs for both the microchips and for the lifetime AKC registration. It will not cost the individual dog owner a single Penney. Because this is a free community service, we ask that you limit your request to only one (1) Chip per family unit, address, partners set. We want to benefit as many individual families as possible with in the amount of chips we are able to purchase from our dog club’s funds. On a total basis we have micro-chipped over 600 dogs since the inception of this program. Our value estimate is $30,000 since the program inception.Also as part of our community activities we have assisted the Raleigh Police Department’s K-9 unit in the purchase of 8 dogs valued at $50,000, have donated scholarship grants to Vet School students for their education, supported the State Animal Recover Team (SART Program), supported the Angel fund, Take the Lead Animal Fund and numerous local shelter operations. The value of these donations exceeds $276,000. Our latest commitment is $25,000 for the new School of Veterinary Medicine clinic facilities & $1,000 to the Theriogenology Department. We are proud of our club members’ efforts to enhance the welfare of our K-9 companions in the community over these past many years.