#pet microchips

[xerserise]

PSA (Public Service Announcement)

A company that made pet microchips has gone out of business, and their database of owners is no longer accessible.

If your pet has been chipped, check to see who the manufacturer is. If it was made/listed by Save This Life, you can register the chip with a different database.

[kirstenly]

Not my microchip companies, but Its important to double check your pet's microchip manufacturer/registration company regularly. this was my reminder to make sure my pet's information were up to date on their tags and that their companies are still around.

Important! Your pet's RFID chip number might have been disconnected this week.

Is your pet chipped? They should be. Do you know who made the chip?

Pet RFID chips are so small that there's really only room on them for a serial number. When your lost pet is brought to a shelter or a vet's office, they can scan the chip, read that number, and then type it into a program that draws from a series of linked databases to find your name and phone number. That's how they find you, and tell you that Silly Lilly von Wigglesbottom has gone wandering, and she's safe and sound, and would you come get her, please?

Texas-based Save This Life, which provided chips to vets and shelters all across the US, has all at once and abruptly gone dark; their database is just gone. Their customers were not given warning and so did not know to change their registration to another company. A lot of animals have basically become anonymous now.

If you don't know what company you've been using, call your vet's office and ask what pet chip number they have on file. If the chip number starts with 991 or 900164, it's probably a Safe This Life chip.

If it turns out yours is one of the affected cases, the chip itself will still be fine! There's no need to add another, or anything like that. You'll just need to transfer the number to another company, and your vet should be able to recommend the one that they like the best.

[dearcervus]

Microchipping a cute puppy boy… having him lay down on my exam table, all shaky and nervous about the big needle… gently petting him and reassuring him that it won’t hurt that bad, giving him a little kiss on the nose as I praise him for how brave he’s being for me… hearing his soft scared whine as I gently wipe off the back of his neck, softly cooing over him and reassuring him before using my arm to gently pin him down so he doesn’t move. Gently pinching his skin with my gloved hand before injecting the chip, praising him for how good he is as he whimpers. After just a few seconds I remove the needle and put a little bandaid over the injection site, giving it a gentle kiss. Such a good brave boy for me 🖤

[tommyandtabitha]

IMPORTANT PSA for PET OWNERS:

If you microchipped your pet, there's a chance you need to register the chip with a different company. 'Save This Life', a pet microchip company in the US, went out of business.

Vets and shelters no longer have access to their chip database. This means the owners information (which is in the database, not the chip) can't be looked up when they scan the chip to get its identification number.

Good news! You can register your chip with a different company, so that you'll still show up as the person to contact if your lost pet gets scanned.

[stabbysideblog]

Ohohoho Sam reprogramming Guard dog Dream.

He tells him to fight him and at first Dream refuses. Obviously. He tells him ti play dead. Over and over and over until Something in Dream snaps and he fights. Not with the dull wooden Sword Sam gave him. With his claws and teeth. Throws his frail frame into him hard enough to rattle his bones. Sam's armor has thorns, all it serves is to draw gashes on his pale skin.

The adrenaline runs out and he collapses. Sam pets him on the head. "Good boy."

[petspeopletogether]

From Downtown Dog Rescue in Los Angeles: NEVER LOSE HOPE of finding your lost dog. Frosty had been lost for five years, and because his family microchipped him, they were reunited last week at the South LA Shelter. Please microchip your pets even if you think they will never run away or they are trained. Accidents happen and sometimes the only way back home for a beloved pet starts with having a registered microchip.

[kitsune-kaos]

Before and After ✨

[rainbow-femme]

I love the trope of leaving a baby on a nice couples doorstep when it’s set in modern times because it is so funny to me

That’s not how babies work, my guy. You can’t just transfer ownership like a car, it’s not finders keepers. They can’t just take in this baby and act like it’s theirs, this baby has legal documentation. You’ve not given them a baby you’ve given them the very weird chore of figuring out how to report a random abandoned doorstep baby

[bonefall]

Forgor if I asked this. But a question about Millie's Radio Collar AU. Would something like an under the skin microchip be possible? Idk if they actually make those kind of tracking devices, but would a Clan cat notice something was in their scruff and have it taken out?

Microchips don't have GPS; they are a thing that is scanned when a cat is taken to a vet or shelter. You can't track an animal through an implant.

Or, certainly not in the 2000s when Millie was collared. I referenced the Sirtrack catalogue for the device she wears, the same product that was used for Meerkat Manor. It was absolutely top of the line at the time, that show couldn't have happened without the advancements put into that collar.

So... short answer is no. That's not how microchips work lmao

[yaoiconnoisseur]

big chungus

[rvllybllply2014]

Save this life went out of business and if you had their microchip in your pet(s) then please consider re-registering with a different company.

[astrabear]

Thank you Facebook memories for reminding me that six years ago today, my friend took a stray cat to the vet. This cat had been hanging around their apartment complex for a while, and they'd been feeding him and generally getting to be friends. But it took time for him to trust them enough to get him inside and into a cat carrier.

But six years ago today, they were able to bring him to a vet to get scanned for a microchip. And he had one. He had somehow gotten himself to the other side of town from his family and had been missing for a year and a half. And in December 2017 he went home!

I get emotional every time I think of it. Just imagine, your cat has been gone for eighteen months and you've grieved, you're maybe still grieving because you never knew what happened, and then you get a phone call.

[roseate-felidae]

Zoe had her third jab and microchip today. Poor baby was very frightened, hid her head in my arms. After she hid under her blanket in the carrier all the way home.

Poor hidden Zoe peaking out

[fxckinemo]

ohhhh i want a cat so baddddd I've never gone this long without a cat in my living space. what happened to mrrow?? mrrrroow?

[vamprisms]

withers kept my dog? more of his crimes

[petspeopletogether]

Did you know a simple microchip can make all the difference in reuniting with your pet if they get lost?