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...