@elbrant thank you! I agree for sure!
Microchipping: Registering your Dog!
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And they can get "lost"…. Sophie's did when lvoss went to have her hips/elbows done. So any chip can migrate, good reason to have them checked every now and again... and there is no reason that you can't just run into your Vet and ask to have someone just scan and check the chip...
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They can come back out the tract they are inserted into which is most likely what happened to Sophie's first chip. I would highly recommend have anyone have their dog scanned about 2 weeks after being microchipped to verify the chip is still there. Also, I highly recommend scanning them yearly at their health checkup to make sure that the chip is still functioning. My friend's mom found her dog's had stopped functioning sometime after she had been chipped. The chip was there on the x-ray but would not scan.
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They can come back out the tract they are inserted into which is most likely what happened to Sophie's first chip. I would highly recommend have anyone have their dog scanned about 2 weeks after being microchipped to verify the chip is still there. Also, I highly recommend scanning them yearly at their health checkup to make sure that the chip is still functioning. My friend's mom found her dog's had stopped functioning sometime after she had been chipped. The chip was there on the x-ray but would not scan.
Yes, your right about them "coming back out"… and yes it is a good idea to have them checked... My pups were done about a month ago, when we did rabies this past week, I had their chips checked at that time.
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I know of an ACD who's chip was found in his left foot…. Yes really :).
Also know of another dogs found behind the last rib, too. Please remember to do a full body check on the slippery little suckers
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Just one thing about Canadian microchips-they must be an approved one by CKC for CKC to accept them. While in the midst of getting Sugar's done, CKC changed their policies-and then sent out the info to it's members. I had to order one from the CKC-that was approved by them (they have a list of approved ones) and had to have her redone. She now has two microchips. To say I was less than impressed was an understatement.
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Arlene - do you know what reasoning the CKC has used for doing this? It seems wrong to me. I'm thinking the intent of the chip is to make the dog as EASILY identifiable as possible and not to purely make differentiations between the CKC and AKC.
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It has something to do with the way the chip is made. It seems to be more widely accepted on both sides of the border. Being in a border town, it makes sense. I don't think their intent was wrong, just the way they did it.
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Canada has instituted a standardized signal so that shelters and vets do not need a universal scanner to read the chips. They are using ISO chips that are what they call "Canada Standard".
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Zest's chip has migrated to her rib cage behind her right elbow. It was suggested to me to have her re-chipped. The vet and vet tech did not pick it up when I asked them to scan her but the scanner did go off when I suggested where to scan. I asked if the humane society would find it if they picked her up. Vet said "Probably not." While maybe some places are supposed to scan the whole body, these are underpaid workers with a lot to do (especially in this sort of economy).
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I volunteer at my local shelter and I am currently training to do behavior evaluations to help relieve some the burden the current budget cuts have out on the staff. Even overworked and underpaid, the staff there IME working with them scan the body and scan with both scanners they have. Does this mean every shelter is this way, no, but I think alot of people paint shelter workers as being kind of lazy about microchips and that is not what I have observed. Most really want the animals to be reclaimed and reunited.
