Can you boil it down? Register with all three? Or?
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For Dogs, I'm not sure there is one like that. It would take a gigantic network of the shelters, Vets, rescues etc. Could be done, but....I registered my dog's chip with both Home Again and the AKC. I did report him missing once and got follow up calls from the local shelters. It's a good system and doesn't require an app.
I use AVID too. Mine are not 'Purebreds' they're mainly rescues. It would be sorta of neat though that if a vet in Glendale scanned one of my 'Lost dogs' that I'd get a message on my iDevice telling me...There are 2 major problems with chipping dogs (which we do for all of ours).Some are more slippery than others.The HomeAgain folks put an "anti-migration" cap on theirs, and generally they stay where you put them. The Avid chips don't have that, but generally don't migrate much. The AKC branded chips act like they're coated with teflon. We had a yearling male Borzoi who was acting chronically and mildly lame. We wanted to know if the vet thought it was a real orthopedic problem or just a big, heavyset dog who was growing fast. On the x-ray he took, the leg was fine, but, incidentally and unrelated to the lameness, you could see that the chip, which had been emplaced between his shoulder blades, had migrated to the chest wall next to the breastbone!The other problem is what is called the "microchip wars" -- you can actually google "microchip wars" to learn more.The ID chip is an extremely short-range RFID transponder. It doesn't broadcast constantly, but when "pinged" by an external detector, it converts that weak radio signal into energy and broadcasts its pre-programmed ID number.In Europe, chip frequencies are regulated, so the chip readers in use in Delft will be able to read a chip put in in Marseilles, or Stuttgart.In the US, every manufacturer decides for themselves what frequency to use, and their proprietary reader may or may not read any other brand. Further, some encrypt their chips, so even if a HomeAgain reader detects a response from an Avid chip, all it will display is "Avid chip", and not the actual ID.And again, chip readers are relatively expensive. The Avid people went around to every pound in the country (more or less), and GAVE the their readers -- as many as they needed. So Baltimore County Animal Control has an Avid reader for every truck that goes out to pick up dogs. But HomeAgain, or AKC, provide 1. Any more than that, the shelter has to buy (and you *know* they are chronically underfunded).That means a dog with an Avid chip can be picked up, ID'd, and returned immediately to its owner, and a fine assessed, without ever having to go all the way to the pound and fill up one of the limited number of kennels available.Because we are breeders, and run a boarding kennel, and do Borzoi rescue, we have bought both a HomeAgain reader and an AKC multi-format reader.
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