Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post
Are you out in the boonies or something? The first thing our local Humane Society does when a stray is brought in is to scan for a chip - I've seen it in action.
No I'm in a large city, though none of these dogs came from the same shelter, and I don't think any came from our local shelter. I believe all but one came from the Vancouver area though Icould be mistaken. It's not just us with bad luck -- we posted about it on FB and came across several angry breeders/rescuers who were frustrated by the lack of shelters checking for chips. It may just be that they don't have a scanner, or only have one kind of scanner (not all scanners are the same, like the problem with my Kira -- 4 different scanners and not a single one could read it and three couldn't even find it). They should have stuck with one type of chip & one type of scanner. Instead they had to go and make things complicated!