Re: [PyrNet-L] chips vs tattooing

[MGApeach@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/00 1:34:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
FerreiraE@aetna.com writes:

<< I have been debating the chip vs the tattoo for Pico. I was going to go 
with
 the chip, but have heard that different chips use different scanners. If you
 are not scanning the chip with the correct scanner for that chip, you will
 not get any information. Does anyone have any information on this? >>

There is a universal and regular scanner. The universal picks up avid and 
schering chips. The regular scanner picks up schering chips, and displays 
"AVID CHIP" to let you know the dog is chipped. 

Our clinic debated doing tattooing or chiping. The Dr. decided that chipping 
was better because a tattoo can be altered, but the chip information cannot. 
The chip only takes a second to insert, I chipped my dogs myself. It is given 
just like a subcutaneous vaccine.

melissa