Passports and Microchips-Are you at risk?

[MHOL]

SURVEY PLEASE HELP

Could you please ask your vet, that if they are presented with an equine that already has a microchip but no passport would they, in the interest of 'every equine needs a passport', do they go ahead and do a new passport and use the old already in place microchip? We have had two cases from Essex and Surrey [where the horse had an Irish microchip,but no passport] and there was no issues over new documents being done and no thought to checking out any connection to the already in place microchip. The horse was 10yrs old and being sold by a dealer from the Lingfield area. If this is a standard practise by all vets does this not mean ALL our horses could be at risk [Possibly not the freezemarked ones] of theft???

Every horse microchipped or not can easily be given another passport,and no way to check as the inventors of the passport system have closed your only way of highlighting details by not keeping NED available to us all.
How does your vet know if the horse might not be stolen or missing on loan?
Why microchip if this is the case? If your not happy with your answers from your vets try asking Defra what is going on and by the way why did they close NED?

YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS HORSES COULD BE AT RISK,WHAT CAN WE DO?

 

[OWLIE185]

What I can also tell you is that there is no obligation for the vet implanting the micro-chip to forward the contact detaiils of the owner of the horse to the micro-chip company so that their details are held on their database.
Also there is no central data base for all micro-chipping numbers.
Furthermore because there are at least 7 different muicro-chipping systems the scanners for one system will not detect all of the others.
The demise of the www.nedonline.co.uk database will also result in the identity of many horses becoming impossible to determine.
The only safe option is Freezemarking where anyone can read a freezemark.

 

[Clava]

Passports are simply a means of trying to keep track of horses which may end up in the food chain and their movement in terms of infectious diseases, they were not designed as evidence of ownership or tracking stolen animals.

 

[cally6008]

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[rhino]

Passports are simply a means of trying to keep track of horses which may end up in the food chain and their movement in terms of infectious diseases, they were not designed as evidence of ownership or tracking stolen animals.

This; a passport is not proof of ownership.

 

[LittleWildOne]

Passports are simply a means of trying to keep track of horses which may end up in the food chain and their movement in terms of infectious diseases, they were not designed as evidence of ownership or tracking stolen animals.

^^^THIS 100% !^^^
Passports are ONLY to identify horses for human consumption/infectious diseases. Basically, stolen horses or those issued with a 2nd passport... and we have all heard of this happening....could STILL end up in the human food chain even if their original passport had the "not for human consumption" declaration signed.