Do you have a "microchip" in your corgi?

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Permalink Reply by *Samantha* on July 12, 2008 at 11:12am

I have Maya and Maddie both chipped. I work at a vet clinic and we get calls all the time about dogs who are lost but have no chip :(. In fact yesterday someone brought in a dog that had been running around their neighborhood for 2 weeks. It had a chip and we were able to contact the owner. Turns out they were visiting from California and the dog got lost. It really is well worth the money :).

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Permalink Reply by Eruc on July 14, 2008 at 7:14pm

Emma was chipped by the breeder before she even came home. I guess there used to be two kinds of chips and there was an issue with the fact that the readers could not read each others signals, but not they have standardized and boths kinds of chips can be scanned by the modern readers.

From the way she described it, the chip is about the size of a grain of rice and is injected under the skin between the shoulder blades. The dogs have completely forgotten about the injection a minute after it is done.

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Permalink Reply by Brodey on July 15, 2008 at 11:22pm

Brodey had a chip when we got him. I really should remember to change his address. My friend just got his dog chipped with a GPS. His "dog" is actually a $3,000 wolf so it was pretty important that, if she runs off, he can find her. He said he can get online with his phone and know exactly where she is. I don't know how much it was or if he has to pay a monthly fee.

My lil man ran off after we first moved here. We were frantic. He was gone for about four hours then he just trotted himself back home. As it turns out, he went visiting the neighbors a couple blocks away, barging into their house, and making himself at home. It was an interesting way to meet the neighbors, but I don't want to go through that again. My next chip is going to have a GPS. I want to get online, know exactly where he is, and go get him.

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Permalink Reply by FuzzyButt on July 16, 2008 at 10:49am

There are GPS trackers that go on collars. They are available online...I think the petsmart site has them. Other then that I have no idea about the cost and upkeep.

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Permalink Reply by FuzzyButt on July 16, 2008 at 10:52am

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3093698

There it is. ^^

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Permalink Reply by Avyon on August 12, 2008 at 3:20pm

Its a good idea and Im sure works great :) My only problem especially around here is if someone steals the dog they can easily just throw the collar away.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on July 16, 2008 at 10:44am

Tiki got her chip when she was spayed and Cruise last week when he was neutered. The chips are about the size of a grain of rice. They both have homeagain chips (http://www.homeagain.com/). It's not very expensive and only a small fee each year to maintain them in the database.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne on July 16, 2008 at 11:41am

Both of my boys are microchipped and registered with homeagain.com. Further they now have usb thumb drive id tags. Talk about over protection!

We found a dog in the parking lot two years ago and the first thing we did was check to see if she was chipped. It turned out that she wasn't and we never found out who her owners were. She was also unspayed, so when we had he spayed we also had her chipped.

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Permalink Reply by Jenni & Dave Fields on July 16, 2008 at 1:03pm

We also microchipped Spencer when he was neutered last week. For us, it is an added piece of security

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Permalink Reply by Katie on July 17, 2008 at 10:21pm

My female is microchipped. I had it done when she was spayed, so she didn't feel it.

I need to get my male microchipped because he likes to follow his nose! But I really don't like how the dogs react when they are microchipped awake- I think it might be painfull.

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Permalink Reply by Erica on July 23, 2008 at 11:38am

All of my dogs are microchipped. My grandpa is a vet so he does it for us. We have always used AVID and they do not cause cancer. I love the piece of mind that if my girls get lost they will make their way back home.

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Permalink Reply by Shepdog on July 23, 2008 at 1:56pm

All my pets are chipped at this point, including the horses.

One of the reasons I really am for chipping is... well, natural/man made disasters. I've worked a few of them myself and it's scary how many animals get caught in them and might not find their way back to the owners. There is a much better chance that if your pet ends up being taken somewhere and held, you'll get them back. Or if you're traveling.

Especially if they lose their collars or someone grabs a collar to read the tag and the animal gets frightened and the collar is loose enough to slip over their heads. (It's happened to people.) I had Gabe get loose at Denver International Airport on the Tarmac while we were flying, and even though he had a collar on, my first thought was "Thank goodness he's microchipped."

Also, if any of my crew was to get stolen, that does point ownership right back to me. I had a dog who was stolen out of its neighbors yard and dumped here (forty miles away) on the highway with colllar and tag missing and we have a chip reader here at work. We called, and the chip company apparently had the account flagged - they asked us to hold the dog (and called both the owner and the police.) She made it home the day before Christmas to a very happy family. Without that microchip, there was a good chance that might not have happened.

The big thing is to update them! If you move, get a new cell phone number, home number, etc, you really need to call immediately and get that done. It's really hard when the people don't have a current contact number...

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