I heard about a dog that was euthanized by a shelter because his microchip wasn detected by the shelters scanner. How can I know that won happen to my pet?
Unfortunately, there was a case where a dog’s ISO standard chip was not detected by the animal shelter’s scanner (because it only read 125 kHz microchips), and the dog was euthanized after the usual holding period because they could not locate its owner. Although this was a very sad case, the good news is that this case helped bring national attention to the need for forward- and backward-reading microchip scanners to prevent this from happening again. Much progress has been made, and the likelihood that this will happen again is very low.
Unfortunately, there was a case where a dog’s ISO standard chip was not detected by the animal shelter’s scanner (because it only read 125 kHz microchips), and the dog was euthanized after the usual holding period because they could not locate its owner. Although this was a very sad case, the good news is that this case helped bring national attention to the need for universal microchip scanners to prevent this from happening again. Much progress has been made, and the likelihood that this will happen again is very low.
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