Bio-thermo Identichips

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Polly P — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:57:43 GMT

Three of my cats have the bio chip- the vet I was using back then reccomended them (and they were more costly!) none of the vets I have met since working in practice rate them at all though, due to the inaccuracy. I didn;t know some readers don't pick them up though!

Reading this thread may have saved me some cash as I was considering a petporte!

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Shelly vn — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:39:15 GMT

We stock the pet porte, and they don't recognise the biotherm ones. Not sure about sureflap. either way its a pain in the backside!

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Doolally — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00:36 GMT

I was going to say about the catflaps too....one make of microchip cat flap doesn't accept biotherm chips, but the other one does, i'm not sure which one though, i *think* it's the petporte that doesn't accept the biotherm chips? but it could be the sureflap

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Shelly vn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:59:10 GMT

We use them, although i'm not sure how much i trust the temperature readings. Not had any probs with scanners, but the new microchip cat flaps have trouble with the biotherm chips, so we have to stock normal chips as well!

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Clair Crowley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:12:37 GMT

we use these chips along with the 'normal' identichips we have had a few issues with the temperature reading being different to the rectal temp occasionally by as much as 2 degrees. on the whole they are ok especially for te difficult to handle animals

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Honeybadger — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:35:02 GMT

We used to use these in a practice I worked in about 4 years ago. We stopped because we found that the temperature readings were not accurate but that was a while ago now so maybe the technology has improved.

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Sal the 1st — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:55:06 GMT

its not just the biotherm chips some scanners dont pick up. i remember a pet shop across the road from one place i worked doing microchips and two out of the three of our scanners didnt pick up their chips (3 different types of scanner).

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

zara — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:51:14 GMT

we used to use these in my old practice as well as the tracer chips, we sold more tracer chips plus we found although the bio therm ones were good for an aggressive animal the vets and the nurses still preferred to take the temp the normal route

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Nicola Smith — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:47:53 GMT

We dont do them but a neighbouring practice does, the old scanner we had would often not pick up the chip at all, so had to invest in a larger one but this is an issue as I know the local cat rescue have a small scanner that doesnt pick up these chips - they often get them double checked at vets but how many slip through the net with rescues with small scanners. The company say any scanner picks them up but we have found otherwise which I find concerning!

Re: Bio-thermo Identichips

Emma Bartlett — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:19:24 GMT

I was talking about these today and wondering how accurate they are for reading temperatures so i would also be interested to know