Microchipping: Registering your Dog!
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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.
