Microchipping for your puppy is available.  It can be a potential life saver for your puppy if he/she is ever lost.  Please seriously consider having your pet 'chipped'.  
    An article courtesy of www.Homeagain.com is provided below for you to review.  The cost for having your pet 'chipped' is 30.00.

You may think that your pet is protected from getting lost. But accidents happen, and some things – like hurricanes and other natural disasters – are out of your control. In fact, one in three pets will become lost during their lifetime. And according to the American Humane Association, only about 17 percent of lost dogs and two percent of lost cats ever find their way back to their original owners. Almost 4 million pets are euthanized every year because their owners can't be found in time – if a shelter cannot determine a pet’s owner or medical history, the pet may be euthanized in as few as three days. To help give your pet the best chance of being identified should he ever become lost, have him implanted with the HomeAgain microchip.

When a lost pet is found, any animal hospital, shelter, or humane society can use a special handheld microchip scanner to read our microchip’s unique ID number. The veterinarian or shelter then contacts the HomeAgain database. The database matches the number to a name and phone number, reuniting the lost pet with its owner.