I may have posted this before, but I took a look and didn't find it, so....
I am going to relate to you a story that you may find informative. We have two adopted dogs, Callie (who was chipped when we got her years ago), and Bella, who was not chipped. Bella likes to wander a bit and we have been going up to a house away from our home, so I thought it would be a good idea to get her chipped. No biggie, took her to the Humane Society and got her chipped for $20. They gave me a website I could register her on, and I did.
I thought it would be a good idea to register Callie on the site with Bella so we would be able to keep the information updated together. I did not have the paperwork for Callie so I took her to my vet to get scanned. They scanned over and over and got no hit. They told me the chips can move and scanned down both her front paws and her stomach and back legs. Halfway through they told me any shelter would have given up by this time. They found no chip.
When I took her to the Humane Society to get her rechipped, they scanned and scanned and found no chip either (they found no paperwork on her either, and questioned whether she had been adopted from them, but that's another story). So, my friends, if you believe your pets have been chipped and you are relying on that fact to recover your animals should they be lost or stolen, my advice would be to have them scanned at checkups. Make sure the chip can still be read.
If I have posted this before, please forgive me.
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