Thread: Microchipping

I am not grizzling (um, well not sort of) but I find it curious the fees attached to microchipping...when I microchipped the litter in 1010 I was told that the information would go to a central data base etc etc only to find later that each council seemed to have a different reader (from memory I think it all went to Australia???) which was subsequently remedied (apparently it happened in the UK too, so we were not alone in this schsmozzle). I have been quoted 40 dollars for a microchip for the HB area, but for 55 it would go onto a central data base accessed by veterinarians, spca, and councils NZ wide. Seems a real flip around...

Not all councils have a reader, certainly not all vets have one. basically all you are doing is assigning a barcode to your dog. Who can read it is another matter. I only really see it's benefit in the case of a stolen dog

It's done a brilliant job at stopping dog attacks like they said it would. Oh wait..

Well I have dogs i value and could be targets to be stolen... I like chips. Our vets all have readers and our council has readers and our council charges $20o and I got the paperwork to say it is on the database. If that's all it costs for me to 100% prove a dog is my dog... bugger it... do it.

It ain't perfect, nothing is... but it has it's advantages.

I agree ruff, the only advantage in my eyes is to identify a stolen dog. Once you've had a dog stolen off you, the price of a chip is nothing.

I always thought it would be a good idea to have your mobile phone automatically contacted if the dog chip was checked, the contact details of the person that checked it (van registration or pound details) would be sent to my phone. Does that make sense? So if my dog goes missing and is found by the pound, or is found dead. they swipe the chip, and I get a txt that my dog was is located at the South pound and to contact 09 34#$%$%. I'll then ring them up and organise to get my dog back. Would that be easy to set up in this modern society?

One thing with the chip is to keep your details and info up to date.
Ie: If you move house update the info, easily forgotten......As I found out

Originally Posted by hollow

I always thought it would be a good idea to have your mobile phone automatically contacted if the dog chip was checked, the contact details of the person that checked it (van registration or pound details) would be sent to my phone. Does that make sense? So if my dog goes missing and is found by the pound, or is found dead. they swipe the chip, and I get a txt that my dog was is located at the South pound and to contact 09 34#$%$%. I'll then ring them up and organise to get my dog back. Would that be easy to set up in this modern society?

Well, it seems technology today is so whizzbang you would think some cleverclogs would come up with it, wouldnt you!!!!

Whizzbang technology? - our dog registration could pay for the new computer. Someone rattle the Council cage. We can track courier parcels......