https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/29615/microchips-not-being-scanned Hi everyone, This is a plea to all you lovely nurses out there to try to ensure that every animal is routinely scanned for a microchip when a client has an appointment. I work for a rehoming charity and in the last 12 days have had 3 cats brought inen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/165372?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:07:45 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:580d6354-f500-4eb9-a186-9336ad8b8d1cmolladog<p>I know, we have had those too.</p> <p>It&#39;s just very worrying when you speak to someone at the practice and they openly say that they know the vets are not scanning routinely despite being reminded to do so. I would have not been pleased if my cat had been taken in by someone as a stray + not scanned when taken for a check up&nbsp;+ I had been worrying myself sick for years about what had happened to her.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/165369?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:29:10 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:d58b45c9-74a0-4507-bf67-a2b0ab358f96PSA-David<p>hi it gets worse when practices forget to register the microchips.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>but just because the clinical notes do not indicate that the cat has been scanned at every appointment does not mean they haven&#39;t, also microchips do fail especially with certain brand, along with migrating within the animal.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have situations where we could not find a microchip on a RTC animal. however under xray there was clearly a microchip</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>