ALL MISSING, ALL MICROCHIPPED, ALL LOVED, ALL LET DOWN 

‘The Government does not consider it necessary to require vets and animal welfare authorities who come into contact with a dog to scan it in order to check compliance with the microchipping requirements or to establish whether the dog is lost or stolen.’

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)  

This can’t go on!  Missing microchipped pets deserve the right to be scanned and microchip registration cross checked on original database to be reunited, especially as the Government have made it compulsory to microchip our dogs!  

Please sign #FernsLaw petition to help ALL microchipped dogs and cats get back home:- http://chng.it/hxW952ry

The Defra response was to this archived petition:- 

“Introduce Compulsory Scanning for microchips by vets, rescues and authorities.”
The new compulsory microchipping regulations don't go far enough and have only been put into place to save money on the management of stray dogs. Nothing is mentioned about the need to scan microchips and check registration to help find missing and stolen pets.

It's no good giving all dogs microchips if all vets, agencies and other establishments do not scan for microchips as standard procedure every and any time an animal is dealt with whether dead or alive.

Compulsory microchipping does not work without compulsory scanning and responsible owners are being let down as we have to rely on a 'Duty of Care' which doesn't work now!