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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / May 2005Microchipping
My local news just had a story that has been discussed here before - multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan them all. The story recommends that you find out -before you chip- which manufacturers scanners are in use at your local shelters and vets. They also say that if your pet has a newer chip and your local shelters and vets don't have a scanner that detects it, call the manufacturer and have them send a scanner free of charge to these facilities. Interesting, but I wonder if it'll happen just by making a phone call. Now I wonder - is it a good idea to have more than one manufacturers chip implanted? Would it be potentially harmful to do so?  SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields Suddenly, without warning, Cheryl exclaimed (5/13/2005 3:38 AM): > My local news just had a story that has been discussed here before - > multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan them all. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > manufacturers chip implanted? Would it be potentially harmful to do > so? Probably not necessary. Just do your research and get one of the common chips. I think Meep's is called Avid (was implanted here in the UK), but at any rate she's had it since 1999, in three different countries (including the US), been wanded dozens of times, and it's been compatible with all of them. About once a year I'll have the vet check and make sure her chip is still broadcasting. jmc > Suddenly, without warning, Cheryl exclaimed (5/13/2005 3:38 AM): >> My local news just had a story that has been discussed here [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > jmc Good suggestion. Then if you move to a different area, and other scanners are in use there, maybe it would be wise to have another chip put in. I dunno. I haven't chipped any of my cats because they stay indoors. I want to be prepared if they ever get out, and have been thinking about having this done for all 4 of my furkids. SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields > My local news just had a story that has been discussed here before - > multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan them all. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > manufacturer and have them send a scanner free of charge to these > facilities. Interesting, but I wonder if it'll happen just by making > a phone call. Now I wonder - is it a good idea to have more than one > manufacturers chip implanted? Would it be potentially harmful to do > so? > > -- > Cheryl That's a good question, Cheryl. Good tip about advising shelters of new scanner manufacturers, too. One thing we have come up against is finding pets who are actually chipped, only to find out that the people have since moved and didn't update their info. with the scanner people. It makes the chip virtually useless unless the shelter can do some detective work and find out where you moved. Sherry On Fri 13 May 2005 08:31:40p, wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav (news:1116030700.562114.167350@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com): >> My local news just had a story that has been discussed here >> before - multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > useless unless the shelter can do some detective work and find > out where you moved. Sherry When I was volunteering for the local SPCA here, part of my duties was to create a database with the AVID chip numbers and reference the cat it was installed in. I'm not sure if the adopters were ever informed to update AVID with new home info or not! AFAIK, AVID only had the local SPCA on file. Unfortunately, the record keeping of our SPCA was very very bad. I know that I found dups of AVID numbers, adoption contracts with multiple AVID records, and then there were times I was given AVID numbers without adoption contracts attached. I imagine that even within the rescue organization some cats had more than one chip in them. You can see some of the reasons I stopped volunteering for them. There are many more; you know about them, too. :( SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields : My local news just had a story that has been discussed here before - : multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan them all. That sounds like a press release that turned into a news story. There are only a few compaines that make the real chips and there are international standards for animal tags. What ends up happening is that some other company will package the tags for the vets and then sell them 1000 tags with a free scanner or some other promotion. The free scaners may only detect some tags where if the vet buys a scanner thats not part of some promotion, it should read allmost any tag ever made. In Australia, 1000 tags cost the vet about $10 with the free scanner. You can buy a scanner for $1000 and the tags for about $3 each in small numbers. One way is a bargin at $10,000 and the other is better for everyone ('cept the chip reseller) at $4,000. I expect that generic chip readers will fall to about $300 in the next year. -tim http://web.abnormal.com >: My local news just had a story that has been discussed here >: before - multiple microchip technology; scanners can't scan >: them all. > That sounds like a press release that turned into a news story. The news I watch does "animal interest" stories very regularly. The story was sad; not a press release, but a true story about someone who had their dog chipped and there was an unhappy ending. I'm not going into details because it makes me cry. The bottom line was that it was a warning that just because you have your pet chipped doesn't mean that it will save them. > There are only a few compaines that make the real chips and > there are international standards for animal tags. What ends up [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I expect that generic chip readers will fall to about $300 in > the next year. I hope so. I haven't heard about any generic chip readers yet. For the time being, I'm going to find out what the common chip reader is here in my area and have that brand chip inserted. Unless I find out there really are generic readers in use here. It doesn't seem that there are. SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields > The news I watch does "animal interest" stories very regularly. The > story was sad; not a press release, but a true story about someone > who had their dog chipped and there was an unhappy ending. I'm not > going into details because it makes me cry. The bottom line was > that it was a warning that just because you have your pet chipped > doesn't mean that it will save them. There's always the human factor, too. We got two dogs from a neighboring town into our shelter. They had been held by the ACO for 7 days and were not claimed, so he transferred them to our shelter. The dogs were scanned on intake, and a chip was found. The owners were called and were at the shelter within the hour. The other town ACO was just plain lazy and hadn't bothered to scan the dogs. At least this story had a happy ending. Signature-Kelly |
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