Originally posted by Lisa Owens: I have heard that savvy bad guys (drug dealers, for instance) will surgically remove the chip. True? To do that they would have to have a chip scanner, surgical equipment, and keep on chopping until they got it. Chip readers have a wide scan area, so it would really be trial and error and I doubt someone would go through all that just to remove a chip. I seriously doubt it unless there's a method that I don't know about. Chips are extremely tiny.
My vet accepted a chip for OFA without a problem, but I do think that I will do both in the future.
Will, I bet the failure rate for tattoos (unreadable) is a lot larger than 3-4%.
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Microchipping a young dog (under 6-8 mo) is not wise because the skin is not tight yet. This is what my vet told me. My JRT's chip is down on his shoulder. If you don't know where it is, you wont find it. The people doing the scanning (pound, rabies control, etc) generally only run the scanner across the back and withers.
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Lauren, I agree with you about the failure rate for tattoo's being higher than the failure to read rate for the microchips. It's that crappy equipment we have to train on in the prison systems..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
In my openion Deanna is on the money. If your worried do both. You need the tat. for compatition. AAAANNNNDDD I've probably chiped over 100 GSD and most, afterwords I can find them with my fingers in 10 minutes.
Why couldn,t you tat. a dog on the inside web of the rear leg so you could see it better?
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Yep genious, you can, but can you also register with USA with a chip? You can do everything with the tat, why bother with the chip. It's a waste of time IMO.
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My three year old GS bitch was tattooed when she was six months old, on the inside of her leg at the vets office. They anesthetized her to do it,and it was done with the same equipment that one would use on a person. Sadly it faded in a very short time. I choose not to have another tattoo. I now have all five of my dogs micro-chipped.
Also since I live in a part of Missouri where they do a lot of dog research for dog food companies. Any dog they purchase for (sad to say) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> experiments is supposed to be scanned for a micro chip.
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