Microchip "updating"

Re: Microchip "updating"

Rob Loxley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:09:15 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]Or perhaps I was just being facetious[/quote]

Were you?

Re: Microchip "updating"

Anthony Todd — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:55:23 GMT

[quote user="robloxley"]The chip simply has a 15 digit number; how can that be distressing to a person??[/quote]

Stray dog [had been chipped by previous owner] turns up at police or vet, scanned, chip discovered so registered owner phoned and 12 year old girl told that her beloved pet has been found when she understood that it had died because....... or

Ex-wife now knows where her beloved dog has been taken by her ex-husband........

Ex-husband now knows......

Shall I go on??

[quote user="robloxley"]crushing a glass chip containing bits of metal and silicon under an animal's skin may be a sensible thing to do[/quote]

Ask the charity; may turn out that this has been seen many times with absolutely no problems at all but don't try it until you've checked.

Or perhaps I was just being facetious.

Re: Microchip "updating"

Rob Loxley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:45 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]

[quote user="Richard Carter"]

on the subject of microchipping, an owner of one of our local dog charities explained to me a method of using pliers to crush the chip that has surfaced in the dog theft world!!

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It may be a good way to eliminate a redundant chip when it is known, by a responsible person, that a microchip contains information distressing to the previous owner.

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1) The chip simply has a 15 digit number; how can that be distressing to a person??

2) You seem to suggest that crushing a glass chip containing bits of metal and silicon under an animal's skin may be a sensible thing to do??

Re: Microchip "updating"

Anthony Todd — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:43:48 GMT

[quote user="Richard Carter"]

on the subject of microchipping, an owner of one of our local dog charities explained to me a method of using pliers to crush the chip that has surfaced in the dog theft world!!

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New one on me, hadn't dreamt of that!

So if a "new" pet comes in with a suspicious reaction where a chip might have been an Xray might reveal foreign bodies.....

Not being facetious, sarcastic, ironic, offensive, destructive or silly either.

It may be a good way to eliminate a redundant chip when it is known, by a responsible person, that a microchip contains information distressing to the previous owner.

That's assuming there isn't a foreign body reaction to the contents of the chip pellet......

And that it isn't possible to reprogram a chip in situ

I've learn't something.

Re: Microchip "updating"

Richard Carter — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:32:31 GMT

on the subject of microchipping, an owner of one of our local dog charities explained to me a method of using pliers to crush the chip that has surfaced in the dog theft world!!

Re: Microchip "updating"

Martin Atkinson — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:04:03 GMT

[quote user="Lorna McHardy"]

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Yup, I thought mine was inoffensive and constructive enough albeit maybe tinged with a hint of sarcasm, quite frankly I don't give a sh1t about getting red stars, I feel sorry for the poor sod who gave it to me.

Re: Microchip "updating"

CatherineThomas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:17:58 GMT

[quote user="David Beattie"]

My own rescue dog has a microchip from a number of years ago. I am in the process of trying to change the ownership details to my name and address as it is a legal requirement from April for me to have him microchipped. This will cost me £15 as his microchip is registered on Petlog (though there may be a different database that charges £35) plus postage of various paperwork if it ever arrives etc. Ironically I could have chipped and registered him for free if he didn't already have a microchip, but then of course I still pay every time I move house...

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When I registered my details for my rescue dog's chip with petlog I'm pretty sure they said that you pay the £15 to register and then you can change it as many times as you like for the life of the pet.

Re: Microchip "updating"

Lorna McHardy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:08 GMT

Re: Microchip "updating"

Anthony Todd — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:16:21 GMT

No facetiousness this time but, as I thought I had made clear, the piece in the Mail said "it can be read using a hand-held device and updated ......" giving the impression that the chip itself could be updated, after all, they put the number on the chip somehow so maybe they can change it??

Apparently not, but don't be surprised if a client, or new client, comes in and demands that you change the chip number because said client read in that font of all gospel truth, The Daily Mail........

Re: Microchip "updating"

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:08:36 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]

1) My impression, from the piece in the Daily Mail, was that the chip itself could be reprogrammed, which is what I meant to ask.

2) "And can you erase data if multiple chips are discovered?

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1) I assumed you were being facetious Anthony.

2) Do you mean on the chip this time or the database? If the former, as the chip is a transponder and only sends a signal to the reader when activated I would say it is inert and therefore cannot be reprogrammed or rendered inactive other than with a big hammer! If the latter, I would like to think that there would be a fail-safe system in place to prevent the unscrupulous from implanting a second chip in order to attempt to circumvent the data held for the original chip and that the data should be held in perpetuity. I have a couple of patients that have had 2 chips for one reason or another and so long as both are recorded and the data is the same for both there is no problem.

Re: Microchip "updating"

Anthony Todd — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:17:12 GMT

My impression, from the piece in the Daily Mail, was that the chip itself could be reprogrammed, which is what I meant to ask.

"Once in place, it can be read using a hand-held device and updated every time the dog is either sold or the owner moves home."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098552/Microchip-puppy-tackle-dangerous-dogs-crackdown-irresponsible-owners.html#ixzz1lydRmqqP

I do remember, some time ago, there was a scurrilous rumour that some system from Spain was being used to "update" the microchips in racehorses....

And can you erase data if multiple chips are discovered?

Re: Microchip "updating"

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:56:07 GMT

Anibase Identichip have their 'Locate' scheme whereby you can pay a once off fee (last time I checked it was £13.50) and you can change details as many times as you like.This facility is offered to the client when the pet is first chipped but I thought they charge only £5 each time to change details on the database.

Re: Microchip "updating"

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:50:52 GMT