Quote Originally Posted by cloverfdx View Post
I am surprised at the number of animals not chipped on PT . By law they have to be chipped here before being sold/ rehomed, be it through a shelter, breeder, BYB or shop.

Realy even the most well behaved animal could easily get a fright and take off, is it worth not chipping them.
I think in North America it's probably alot different -- up here there are SO many different kinds of chips, and most vets do not have universal readers so most times a chip can not be detected or read. For instance, my female puppy that just went to the states. The vet that chipped my pups messed up and wrote "black male" on both papers so, having a 5/50 chance, I sent the papers and tag for one chip, and the owner's vet confirmed that it was the right one. However the pup just went to a new vet last week, and she tried with three different scanners to detct a chip -- two of them could not scan or detect it, and the last one could detect it but couldn't read it. In my opinion chips are useless. If CKC would have sent me my tattoo series in time like they should have, they would have been tattooed (and I would have paid $20 instead of over $100!!)

A friend of mine had a litter two years ago and one of the owners insisted on a certain kind of chip. So she chipped the pups with this special chip she wanted. Then she discovered that CKC would not accept this chip as a means of identification. So she had to rechip the dogs that were local and available for her to rechip. Now CKC won't let her register these dogs because they know she sold them before she re-chipped them. Pain in the butt, I much prefer tattoos, readable by anyone whether it's a shelter or just a normal person who found your dog, and MUCH less expensive! I pay $10 each for tattoos.