Re: smartchip

Nicola Smith — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:18:19 GMT

I think for me the worst thing is that animals can be changed to new owner without previous owners permission.

Re: smartchip

Alison Clare Hickman — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:36:26 GMT

http://www.smartchip.org.uk/

Try this. Hope it helps.

Ali h

Re: smartchip

Sal the 1st — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:58:57 GMT

I have heard of these - in fact we have a couple of dogs chipped with them in our practice (both came from puppy farms). Thinking about it we also have a couple of dogs with multiple chips - one of them with a passport has a failed virbac chip plus its replacement. Another is a dog that was chipped but chip not registered and was then chipped again (original chip had migrated and wasnt picked up on) and is now being exported to another country - no end of problems with it. Until recently it was possible for folks to buy a DIY microchip on amazon no idea what chip or database it was and there would have been no way for the DIY implanter to be able to check the chip number or check that the animal wasnt already chipped - and call me picky but I dont like the idea of somebody with no idea sticking a microchip needle in an animals neck somehow