Microchipped/neutered tags

[Clodagh]

Springer spaniel welfare have got collar tags for sale, they say microchipped one side and neutered the other, a good idea I thought.

 

[CAYLA]

I always have tahs made up for our rescues when they go, if I can't use the company we normally use as im short on time, I go to pets at home and have one made there and then and I always add

I AM NUETERED
I AM CHIPPED
TEL:
and something extra (my trick of the trade). Why risk a dog ending up in the pound when they can be returned to you via a tag is my way of thinking.

 

[Alec Swan]

I always have tahs made up for our rescues when they go, if I can't use the company we normally use as im short on time, I go to pets at home and have one made there and then and I always add

I AM NUETERED
I AM CHIPPED
TEL:
and something extra (my trick of the trade). Why risk a dog ending up in the pound when they can be returned to you via a tag is my way of thinking.

Would secondary Microchips, carrying the information that you suggest, not imprint upon the animal the same information? Collars can be lost, Chips can't, so easily.

Would it be an idea for further details to be available on chips, or perhaps two being implanted at the same time, and via the same jab?

Alec.

 

[CAYLA]

Would secondary Microchips, carrying the information that you suggest, not imprint upon the animal the same information? Collars can be lost, Chips can't, so easily.

Would it be an idea for further details to be available on chips, or perhaps two being implanted at the same time, and via the same jab?

Alec.

Yep all that info is on the chip, so when you register the chip you add the dog sex, age, colour, name and neuter status but joe public won't know as they won't have a scanner. I always think (if the tag is removed by the finder) then someone is most probably chancing their luck at keeping the dog! and then your best hope is the dog will get loose at some stage again and get handed into a vets or end up with the dog warden with a more honest finder. With the extra (something) I add to the tag is makes sure the dog is handed back sharpish!!
I just dont understand a dog not being tagged in order for finder to have a contact number to reunite the dog asap, saves the dog being handed to a pound.
There is a new scanner (we have one) called a "HALO" and it brings up extra info when you scan the dog (not just the number) like the old ones do....like who the dog is reged to and if it's reported lost (you constantly update the info on it by keeping it connected to your computer where it automatically uploads info. I hope I made sense with all that.

 

[blackcob]

The vast majority of microchipped dogs that get handed in to our surgery end up being sent to the pound anyway because the chip details are out of date - address several hundred miles away because it's still registered to a previous owner, mobile numbers out of service... utterly pointless.

Collar and tag is so much easier because the member of public who finds the dog can contact the owner directly. Otherwise you're banking on the finder to either take the dog to a vet or call the dog warden to scan the chip - vets will be closed OOH and the warden/pound will charge to release the dog.

I had some embroidered labels made up for mine that read 'MICROCHIPPED AND NEUTERED - PHONE NUMBER ONE - PHONE NUMBER TWO'. They look like the name tapes for school uniform only with two lines of text and with customisable colours. These are sewn or superglued on all collars, leads and harnesses and only cost about a fiver for 30.

 

[CAYLA]

Yep there is that....folk not updating details, it's a pain in the a***.

 

[Dobiegirl]

All my dogs have Indigo tags, I love them, they lie flat and are guaranteed for life and dont drop off or get caught on anything, they all say neutered/spayed/chipped,2tel nos and my name and address.

My friend found a dog today and Ive spent a lot of the day ringing round trying to find out who this dog belonged to, my friend kept it in her stable , it had a collar on but no tag, after a lot of ringing people I found out it belonged to the local copper and it had lost its tag a while ago. This dog is from the RSPCA and is being trained, I use that term very loosely as Im just appalled and gobsmacked at what I found out and a waste of resources and taxpayers money. He only had it a fortnight and was regularly let off lead even though the dog had run off before.

 

[{97702}]

Yep there is that....folk not updating details, it's a pain in the a***.

Ummmm.... have you got my up to date address and phone number Cayla? Mind you, Amy always insists on coming back

 

[twiggy2]

the last three saturdays I have worked we have had a stray dog bought in, all of them have been chipped and I have scanned obtained owners details and dogs and owners have been reunited within half an hour, all three have been young un castrated male dogs.

my lurcher has my vets contact details on her chip-my details will always be up to date there

 

[CAYLA]

Do you mean me needing a contact for you as obs she is chipped to rescue and I know where to find you.

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