GL: Pet chips

[Vincent P. Chianese]

"That's not entirely true in either Canada or the US. Most humane societies

and vets in either country do have universal scanners. We have Avid chips

in both our pups and from time to time we've checked they can still be

read. Both our dogs were chipped in the US many years ago and it's really

your added defence to safeguard them while travelling by boat in strange

waters. Naturally a collar and up to date tag is the best way to travel."



Hugh,

You may need to rethink your position a bit.  AVID chips are in fact the
chips that can not be read by the Schering - Plough Universal Scanner.

The following is an excerpt from an article on Dog Owners Guide.

"Two companies, Schering-Plough Animal Health and AVID, share the bulk of
the business of pet identification by microchip.

In 1996, Schering-Plough Animal Health, marketer of the HomeAgain microchip
identification system, announced distribution of a universal scanner by
Destron-Fearing* that can read all microchips and removed a major obstacle
to widespread acceptance of pet identification with the new technology.
Until then, no one scanner could read the chips of all the US manufacturers,
a situation that impeded efforts to involve shelters in a national effort to
return stray dogs to their owners through a chip program. The new scanners
were given to thousands of shelters throughout the country so that quick and
easy identification of those dogs with microchips could be achieved.

There are some drawbacks. AVID. encoded its chips so that the number cannot
be read, even by the HomeAgain universal scanner. Unless the shelter has an
AVID. scanner, the best it can do is identify that a chip from AVID. is
present. Thus it is still necessary to have access to at least two scanners
in order to assure that the chip number can be retrieved."

For the complete article go to   http://www.canismajor.com/dog/microchp.html

Nothing replaces training your dog.  I have said for many years that if I
see a person at a dog show and observe how their dogs act in the ring or at
ring side I can predict how there children's behavior is as well.  Some
children are unpleasant to be around as are some dogs.  But in most cases it
is not their fault, it comes from the lack of training on the part of their
parents.  Dogs are like a 3 year old, they will try you on as much as you
will let them get away with.  Show them no boundaries and they will have
none.

Vinny

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