Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 So many queries were made about microchips in the last post What Would You Do If Your Pet Were Missing. However, the thread was getting very long and I felt it was too important to get lost at the end of a thread. So I am posting this new thread. Microchips are very effective and have been responsible for reuniting hundreds of thousand of lost pets with their owners. Here is the stat from Companion Animal Recovery, the registry for Home Again Microchip. As of October 31, 2002, 1,526,349 companion animals are enrolled in the database and 111,148 lost pets have been successfully reunited with their owners. AVID boasts equally impressive recovery stats. The early days of microchip implants were fraught many problems. One, the chips tended to migrate from the implant site. This is no longer a problem since the newer chips employ ani-migration technology. This allows the chip bonds to the tissue around the implant site. The biggest problem however was that several competing companies were each making different chips all requiring different scanning devices to read the incompatable chips. It was not uncommon for a shelter to have to scan animals with three or four different devices. A few years ago this problem was solved with the introduction of the universal scanner/reader. since then the chips effectiveness has been greatly increased. If your shelter does not have a universal scanner, AVID will donate one for free. Visit their web site at http://www.avidid.com/pets/index.html to find out about their Free Reader Placement Program. Click the Shelter Program Link. We cover microchips in great detail as well as all of the other ID methods in our new e-book Proper Pet ID: Your Lost Pet's Ticket Home. You can download it for free at our web site at www.lostpetfoundpet.com Thanks Andrew Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 sorry Andrew thought you was taking advantage of us :oops: Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 No need to be rude.... That is a good link Andrew... I am sure many shelters to not have scanners for chips as ours does not! I will pass this on to them! Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 I wasn't trying to sell the e-book, it's free. It covers all the latest ID methods in detail. Andrew www.lostpetfoundpet.com Quote
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