Avid microchip problem
Has this ever happened to anyone else? I was reading a thread on here today about lost pets and remembered that I ran across Bella's microchip certificate the other day. I did a google search and ...
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dturm wrote:
I did a search on AAHA/AKC universal lookup tool and found Jill's chip to be unregistered too.
A major problem here is that each company has a proprietary computer file and there was no single data base. AAHA and AKC has attempted to make a centralized data base to help with lost animals, but obviously there are some flaws in the system.
That was my initial thought when I read the original post -- problem with the online database, not with the registration with the chip company.
In addition to the universal database issue, my vet told me several years ago that there's no universal scanner that will read all chips. He said that any scanner would (or should) detect the presence of a chip, but might not be able to read the number. So in order to read the numbers they needed a scanner for AVID, a scanner for Home Again, etc. I don't know if that's changed since then. One would hope so.
