Meet our new dog!

[Ronni]

Hope looks so alert. Bet she’s your new doorbell and alarm system.

What do microchips show?

Also for @Aneeda72 since you asked as well

Microchip manufacturers maintain a database of every microchip sold to vet clinics who in turn implant them, by request, into the animals who come into the clinic.

Once a pet is chipped the owner contacts the manufacturer and provides the chip number so the manufacturer can access that unique chip information, and the owner provides their name, pet’s name, and owner contact information to be kept on file.

Should the animal become lost, vets (and some rescues, local animal control etc) are equipped with a chip reader. They scan the animal for a chip and any information the chip provides. So if you find an animal, you can take it to any vets office and they’ll scan it for free. That’s what I did with the dog I found. She was scanned within half an hour of me picking her up at the closest vet office I could get to.

It’s an excellent system when the owner is diligent about providing info and updating as needed..move, change of phone number etc. In my dog’s case no information was provided to the chip manufacturer so all I had to go on was when the chip was sent to the vet and vet clinic name and number, which did me no good because the vets office had closed a few years ago.

 

[Jules]

Considering how negligent Hope’s former owners were with failing to provide the basic info for that chip, Hope is extremely lucky that she now has you.

That‘s an excellent system if people are diligent.

 

[Aneeda72]

Also for @Aneeda72 since you asked as well

Microchip manufacturers maintain a database of every microchip sold to vet clinics who in turn implant them, by request, into the animals who come into the clinic.

Once a pet is chipped the owner contacts the manufacturer and provides the chip number so the manufacturer can access that unique chip information, and the owner provides their name, pet’s name, and owner contact information to be kept on file.

Should the animal become lost, vets (and some rescues, local animal control etc) are equipped with a chip reader. They scan the animal for a chip and any information the chip provides. So if you find an animal, you can take it to any vets office and they’ll scan it for free. That’s what I did with the dog I found. She was scanned within half an hour of me picking her up at the closest vet office I could get to.

It’s an excellent system when the owner is diligent about providing info and updating as needed..move, change of phone number etc. In my dog’s case no information was provided to the chip manufacturer so all I had to go on was when the chip was sent to the vet and vet clinic name and number, which did me no good because the vets office had closed a few years ago.

I suspected as much, people who care keep those chips updated.