implantation of microchips

[Vaks]

Yesterday, we implanted microchip on the 12 puppies, for CKC Registration.



What a test for me! They all screamed! lolll I am a "mom" too soft for this job!! :-)

Is your dog's tattooed? Or microchipped?

Hélène

Mom & baby, 3 weeks :-)

[GSDBESTK9]

That is a precious picture! We have been thinking of microchiping instead of tattoing but we are concern about the chip moving as they grow. I microchipped my Cisco young and last I checked, his microchip was down below his sholder on the right side.

[Vaks]

The microchip can move a little, but it never disappears. This is an advantage :-)

[GSDBESTK9]

They can also stop working, we had a dog in our club that was microchipped as a puppy, when he was ready to trial for his BH, they could not find the chip anywhere. They tried and tried, nothing! So he had to be microchipped again right before the trial.

[Vaks]

Yet in Europe it has become an obligation? Why if it's so fragile?

Hélène

[onyx'girl]

My dog is chipped and tattoo'd you can read his tat very well at almost 3 yrs old. Though I do know black dogs are harder to read the tat's.
I've also had chips migrate, and my concern with that is sometimes shelters won't scan the whole area to see if a stray dog is chipped. They only scan the area that is known for implant. Though my dogs would never end up stray!!

[Vaks]

I lost my yorkshire in October and I called the shelter in my area to provide the microchip number. The shelter does not have a scanner!! they said : "you must come and see here, 3-4 times a day, if your dog has been found. We don't have this "equipment".



Wow!! Wonderful service for our lost dogs!

So it's easy to install a microchip... it's an advantage. No need for special equipment.

just leave her mother's heart out ... lolll

Hélène

[Liesje]

I have my dogs chipped and tattoo'd. I know both are acceptable but with both available (and tattooing free!) why not use every means available to me to possibly identify and recover my dogs? When I get their official papers from WDA or USCA I typically include both the tat and the chip, so it's my choice what to check at a show or trial.

[Chris Wild]

We do both tattoo and microchip on all of our puppies before we place them, and also any dogs we get ourselves if not already done.

[Catu]

The percentage of chips stop working is minimal and a chip moving from the shoulders is not really an issue. The benefits of using them are far bigger than the cost-risk, IMO.

Akela is sable and his tattoo is already almost impossible to read at least than 1,5 years old, his ear skin is too dark. I've not micro-chipped yet, but will probably in about a month.