Well, Cathy, this may be true in some areas, but not all! My vet is young, relatively new building / equipment/ etc. - and the scanner she had would NOT scan the European chip - didn't even show there was one there! And my friends at Va Tech indicated none of the scanners they knew of would scan it, either - Joan
Cathy J. Gish wrote: > They must have been chipped with the ten digit used in Canada and Europe. Avid > has a scanner that can read them. The one that most vets have now the big one can > read both. > > Cathy > > Liz Gordon wrote: > >> Okay, now I'm reeeeeeaaly angry! I just found out, after importing three dogs >> in the last six years, a Norfolk Terrier six years ago from Sweden and two >> Cavaliers from Holland this last year that the microchips the foreign vets >> implanted that allowed us to import them can NOT be read by the pet tracking >> company, Avid, with whom I have had an account for these six years. (Really >> long sentence.) >> >> It seems the numbers come encrypted and cannot be scanned or read by vets in >> the States. I am not so angry about the wasted money spent changing address >> information, etc. on my dogs over the years, or the cost of having them all >> re-chipped, not to mention the discomfort it may cause them, but that if >> something had happened, the process would have not helped and probably >> hindered any search for them. I can't believe the Avid company did not tell >> me this when I first called six years ago to register my first dog. Just >> thought the list should know if you didn't already know. >> Liz Gordon >> Merrychase >> >> ========================================================= >> "Magic Commands": >> to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL >> to start it up gain click here: >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL >> >> E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. >> Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html >> >> All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. > > > -- > http://www.FlyingColorsCavaliers.com > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. > > ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
