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Pet, hell, I chipped my wife...

I make mine wear a bell.

Just about all the shelters and pounds in my area chip the animals if they are adopted out. You pay a one time fee to have the chip registered to you.

Chipping pets is only common sense if you want the pet back and not euthanized, you just don't know what can happen on any given day.

As for the wife, well, the tremors from those blood curdling screams can be sensed a long ways off, and old Henny Youngman jokes come to mind.

The last three puppies we have purchased from our breeder were chipped when we got them. It's a great thing, IMO, but thankfully we have never needed to use it to find a dog.

Sadie is chipped. In this town, if a dog is chipped, you can buy a lifetime dog license at the same cost of the annual renewal fee.

I once teased my son when he was about 13 years old that when he was born, I had one implanted between his shoulders so that I could track him down.

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Originally posted by BarbC:
I once teased my son when he was about 13 years old that when he was born, I had one implanted between his shoulders so that I could track him down.

As the father of a girl, I can tell you that this idea has crossed my mind more than once.

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Originally posted by truckemup97:

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Originally posted by BarbC:
I once teased my son when he was about 13 years old that when he was born, I had one implanted between his shoulders so that I could track him down.

As the father of a girl, I can tell you that this idea has crossed my mind more than once.

Chipping your daughter, or the boys that come a-callin'?

Aren't chips specific to the reader, e.g. one manufactuers chip cannot be read by another manufacturers reader.

"...As of 2007, however, there are still many scanners used in shelters that lack the ability to read one or more of the four common chip types. In some cases, scanner makers simply left out support for one or more of the three well-known standardized chip transmission protocols. Also, in the U.S. especially, many vets have implanted pets with chips of still another type, which is made deliberately difficult to read due to encryption for security purposes. Not every scanner maker is able to decrypt these..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)

Compatibility Table of Which Scanner can Read Which Chips Expected Results for chip type (OK=Good read NR=No read DO=Detect Only with no number given ??=Status Unclear, Updates Invited)
Scanner to Test ISO Conformant Full-Duplex chip AVID Encrypted "FriendChip" U.S. HomeAgain, AVID "Eurochip", or FECAVA "Trovan Unique" and Current AKC CAR chips
Minimal ISO Conformant Scanner OK NR NR NR
Current AVID Basic U.S. Scanner NR OK NR NR
U.S. AVID Deluxe Scanner NR OK OK NR
AVID Universal Scanner sold outside U.S. OK OK OK ??
Various vintages of U.S. HomeAgain "Universal" Shelter Scanners by Destron/Digital Angel Corp. NR,DO, or OK OK OK Possibly all OK
Typical Destron/Digital Angel Corp. U.S. Vet's scanner pre-2007 NR DO OK ??
Trovan LID-560 per mfr. specs on Web OK OK OK OK
U.S. Trovan scanner per AKC-CAR Web Site DO OK OK OK
Datamars Black Label Scanner OK OK OK OK but Reliability Questioned
Older Datamars Scanners OK DO OK ??

(One study[27] cites problems with certain Trovan chips on the Datamars Black Label scanner. In general the study found none of the tested scanners to read all four standards without some deficiency.)

See previously referenced article for an easier to read chart of compatiiblity.

The state of Alaska chips about a million king salmon every year. Whenever we caught a king in our weir we had to chop off the head and send it to Juneau.

I have three dogs each of them chipped...It would be nice if the chip also had a gps locator built in.

Mine is chipped. He went missing earlier this year. Got a call the next day from the county animal shelter. Best money I ever spent!

Yep - Both of my pooches are chipped. I'm going to run them over the City Market scanner one of these days to see if it will 'read' them.
Should be fun and I usually shop at Safeway anyway. It will be permanent after that...

All of ours are chippped. Yes, there have been some issues about chips and readers not being compatable.

Pet Smart was big on the service but the down side was nobody had the reader that worked with their chips. We lost a Draathaar out hunting and called the pound the next morning. Sounded like Abigail but they said she didn't have a chip. We went in the next morning and sure enough it was our dog. Their reader didn't read the chip from Pet Smart. We paid our money and had them re-chip her with theirs. The one they use is universal to all public pounds in Idaho.

We got a new pup this spring, another Draathar. She was lost on the Memorial Day weekend out on the desert. I posted flyers from one end of the county and clear down into Nevada and over to Jordan Valley, Oregon. All the service stations and restraunts had flyers as did all the post offices and the sheriff's office. I then spent 3 week riding my butt off. I covered over 1000 miles by truck, off road and about 300 riding. I pulled 2 of the guys off their jobs and kept them riding day light to dark.

I got 5 different calls about sightings. None were Zelda. One trip to Owyhee, Nevada to pick up the dead dog along the highway was the or one of the worst drives of my life. Thank God it wasn't her. I did dig a grave for the deceased dog and post information at the store.


On the 27th day I got a call from the owner of the cafe in Bruneau. Seems one of the guys working on the power line found her and took her to Boise and the pound!!!! She wasn't chipped. I go there two days before she was to go out for adoption and they had chipped her and spayed my $1200 Draathar!!!!

Who would have thought the finder would simply take her to Boise without checking locally first.

I/we have learned our lesson and even though we live in the middle of nowhere, everything we care about is chipped. That includes goats and milk cows that aren't generally branded.

The chip info goes into a data base and can be accessed when the animal is found. There was a story in the Boise paper a while back. Guy lost his Lab a while back. Somebody turned her into a pound in CA, 5 years after she was lost/stolen. He immeadiatley drove to CA and got his dog.

Zelda is fine now and sleeping with the wife. She has put on 21 pounds. I don't want to ever go through that again, ever!!!!. Everything is chipped!!!!!

the best

Ross W THomas



aBIGAIL BUT THEY SAID DOG WAS UNCHIPPED. wE CHECKED AND OF COURSE IT WAS OUR DOG AND THEIR READER SIMPLY DIDN'T SCAN THE MAKER/MODEL SHE H

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Originally posted by BarbC:
I once teased my son when he was about 13 years old that when he was born, I had one implanted between his shoulders so that I could track him down.

It's propably not long in our future where we'll all need to be chipped. No chip, no transactions, no business, no buying, no selling, no banking, etc.

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Originally posted by billhud:

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Originally posted by BarbC:
I once teased my son when he was about 13 years old that when he was born, I had one implanted between his shoulders so that I could track him down.

It's propably not long in our future where we'll all need to be chipped. No chip, no transactions, no business, no buying, no selling, no banking, etc.

Not as far off as you would think

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