What is the best brand out there of microchip IDs for pets?
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What is the best brand out there of microchip IDs for pets?
I’d love to hear peoples’ experiences - good or bad - with the various brands of microchip IDs for pets. I’m looking at Avid, 24 Hour Pet Watch, Home Again and Trovan for use in a new animal shelter.
Breakfast
What is the best brand out there of microchip IDs for pets?
I’d love to hear peoples’ experiences - good or bad - with the various brands of microchip IDs for pets. I’m looking at Avid, 24 Hour Pet Watch, Home Again and Trovan for use in a new animal shelter.
Breakfast
Having worked at an animal shelter I have some experience with Avid and 24hr.
What you should look for is the quality of their customer support and not worry much about the technology. It’s pretty much the same on the inside. But you want to make sure your clients are given the best support possible while trying to locate their lost animals.
This means not only fast, accurate flow of information, but also an empathetic ear that a distraught owner can rant and rave at.
Then take a look at how they notify people when a pet is found. I know Avid used to charge extra if an animal was identified outside of a certain radius from where it was chipped.
It was only a little more every year, but if people don’t know this then they don’t pay it and their dog gets lost on a family vacation is located but Avid doesn’t notify anyone because they weren’t paying the extra.
Those are the kind of things you should look into. Like I said the technology on the inside is the same in all of them it’s the extras that makes it worth using one over the other.
I’d be wary of microchipping, and which companies you go with. Without a ‘universal’ scanner, you won’t be able to read chips from other brands, and furthermore, you wont’ even be able to tell that the animal has a chip. Companies prior to 2003 made their scanners to read any chip, but for the sake of beating out their competition, they started making scanners that won’t even detect another company’s chip. Pretty shady, if you ask me.
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I would say Avid. And they are sure to work with all AVID scanners. Every vet has or should have an avid scanner. They are fast and can get you pet back fast.
I know that Avid, 24 Pet Watch, and Home Again are universal chips meaning they can all be read on the same scanner, which is the one that most shelters have. I am not familiar with the Trovan one. The critical thing is that your chip is able to be read by the scanners that your local shelters have. It does no good to get your cat chipped with a chip that cannot be read by the common scanners. I would stick with one of the three above. I know they can all be read on most scanners (I have one). Our rescue is currently using the 24 Pet Watch chips.