Anyone having trouble with their microchips? - Page 1

I just had two dogs..........littermates.......2 yrs old......hips and elbows done.  Neither of their microchips would scan.  My vet checks the chip before it leaves the package and after he puts it in the pup.  These chips had only been in 2 yrs.  I use this method of ID because I do have a guarantee attached to my pups.  I will be contacting AKC about this as I purchase my Indigo 128 Microchips from them.  Both dogs had to have new chips.  The female's original chip was seen in the x-ray showing her elbow.  Just wondering if anyone else had experienced the problem.  Thanks  Jill

I,m no Chip expert but my vet could not scan a chip in one of my dogs, he explained to me that his scanner could not see all the diff brands of chips out there,,,, seems to me the industry needs to get on the same page and use only one brand of scanner and one standard brand of chip, I see advantages of still using tattoes

The scanner used was suppose to be able to scan......any and all chips.  I agree there needs to be a standard...........way too many out there.  I went to microchips after the ear tattoos would fade with time. 

Jill

When I tattoo my own dogs I can read them easy enough and  use a short number for best results and some dogs you need to shave hair to read better still, I have heard there are scanners that are suppose to read either most or every brand but if so does it mean these chips we cant rely on for any length of time, What is the longest known still working microchip in a dog ?

I have trouble with my chip (Virbac Back Home) not being read by a few different scanners, its to the point that i have to purchase my own scanner

My guy was also checked after giving chip however, I was rubbing that approx area and felt it just uder the skin and massaged the area as I did not know what it was until after I thought,  OK that was his chip.  I'll have vet check next time I go in to see them...  Thx for the heads up,  Nan

They do migrate, more than one dog has 2 or more because the scanner couldn't find the first one; not necessarily because the scanner couldn't read it. I hate them, much prefer tats. Somehow injecting a foreign body into a dog doesn't feel right to me and I'm wondering about side effects in the future.

My female's chip has migrated to the front of her right shoulder!    I have heard migration happens more often with older chips.

My rescue female has an ear tatt that is quite readable in bright sunlight, but no one can trace it. So, no method is perfect!  (It's an non-standard format, consisting of all letters, rather than numbers.)

I have had 2 chips that quit working in the older chips, and one migrated on another dog from between shoulder blades to rib cage area. we like to never found it. I heard some where that an average life of a chip is around 5 years, my 2 dogs were only in a couple of years. I haven't had any scanned lately to see if they still work, have to run them back to the vet that did it to get them scanned I guess, or at least some vet with a good scanner.

My dog's chip could not be read after five years.  Once in about every ten runs of the same scanner or even different scanners it would read and then it would not.  Company allowed vet office a free new chip to be inserted.