Microchip - Pet Retrieval System

[Freedom]

Sugar already had a chip from Avid, so I just updated the info when I adopted her.

I "think" there is a difference. With Home Again, they send out emails or some sort of message to all the places which use their product, if you report your dog missing. With Avid, I think you just rely on the rescue, ACO, shelter, vet or what have you, to scan for a chip when someone comes in with the dog.

I don"t know about ResQ or any others, how they work.

My vet clinic has one scanner which reads both Avid AND Home Again. It is put out by a third party company.

[Catlady711]

I don"t know about ResQ or any others, how they work.

My vet clinic has one scanner which reads both Avid AND Home Again. It is put out by a third party company.

Our Home Again reader will tell us there is another company's chip in there but won't give us the number to look it up. The ResQ reader is supposed to read both AVID and Home Again chips as well as their own, but their ads simply don't state if they actually give the chip number or just detect another company's chip. AVID's site says their reader will read other company's chips with a certain frequency, but I'm not clear if it gives the actual chip number or not. There are also several other chip manufacturers, but again I'm not sure a truely universal scanner exists, or at least if it has we've never been informed about it.