We have microchipped our pets with the expectation to be reunited if the worst happens and they are lost or stolen. If just one organisation is not committed to scan and check microchip registration the whole system fails and is not fit for purpose.
Debbie turned to the Daily Express for help and jounalist Rachel Spencer got the restriction lifted! The Sunday Express, 25th August 2019.
Please sign this petition to close the loopholes preventing missing microchipped dogs and cats from getting home:- http://chng.it/Zt48N9qbgZ
Updates needed to help all missing microchipped pets get home:-
1. We want a ‘Veterinary Practice Policy’ that guarantees the veterinary profession will scan and check pets microchip registration on the original database to establish if a dog, cat, horse etc is reported as missing. Vets should be checking upon a patient’s admission for treatment and hospitalisation, and also when a dog, cat or horses are presented for euthanasia. Microchips should be checked annually as a routine, to make sure contact information is up to date. This should be implemented across the industry as a Standard Operation Procedure which is also an excellent opportunity to check that the microchip is registered on a Government approved database.
You only find out that microchips are not helping sold on stolen pets when your own pet is missing.
Microchip Database guidance needs updating. (Some are better that others but a Code Of Practice is urgently needed):-
2. One microchip number on one database, to prevent new identity being given to missing and stolen pets.
3. Databases must not change registration information without contacting the original keeper. All databases should be working in unison to a Code Of Practice.
4. When a microchip is scanned the keeper must be contacted immediately by the database before the missing alert is removed.
5. Deceased and injured pets on roads and railways must be checked for a microchip.
6. Seized and hand-in pets must have their microchip registration checked by the authorities and rescues.
7. Immediate reunification when a pet is scanned and is registered as missing on original database.
8. Defra must issue a warning about the bogus database operating as a UK Pet Registry Database which is taking money from innocent pet keepers, not realising that when their pets microchip is scanned the microchip will read as unregistered!
COMPULSORY TO MICROCHIP DOGS BUT LEFT OPTIONAL TO SCAN AND CHECK MICROCHIP REGISTRATION ON THE ORIGINAL DATABASE.
We don’t believe that the Government should only take advice from the British Veterinary Association (BVA), RCVS, BSAVA and Rescues on this issue, as they are at the centre of this injustice and are protecting themselves first and not putting the welfare of the animals or their clients first.
Every missing microchipped pets deserve the right to be reunited with their loving family.
Please sign this petition for change. Thank you.
Pet theft rate climbs by 51 per cent in four years, sparking calls for new pet scanning laws: https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/9598216/call-new-pet-scanning-laws-beat-pet-thieves/
Dr. Daniel Allen ‘s Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective:- https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/5/209
Please note that a microchip is not proof of ownership and we are referred to as ‘keepers’ in the Compulsory Dog Microchipping Regulations, which also gives the new keeper the rights to change original registration on a database:- http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111125243
Fern has become the figure head to help all stolen and victims of ‘Theft By Finding’, microchipped dogs, cats, horses and any other pet.
Stolen Fern was reunited after 6 years because she was picked up as a stray, on her own with no new owner present and her microchip was checked. If Fern had been taken to the vet with an owner, she would still be missing.
We want ‘sold on’ and ‘kept by finding’ missing dogs and cats, who have a new keeper present, to have the same chance as a stray to get home.
Many missing pets are never reunited with their families because it’s left optional to scan and check microchip registration on the original database to make sure pet and keeper match.
Best practice recommendations by the veterinary professionals, authorities and rescues to check microchip registration is devised to be misleading and is approved by Defra. You only find out the truth when your pet has disappeared.