just checked to dogs over for their microchips,all still there, i do this at lease twice a year,to check incase they have moved. and gone missing.

have you check your dogs lately

Mine are checked every year when they go for their boosters.  They have been checked a few times recently due to going through the pet passport process.

Do you go to the vets for them to scan and check?

Thank you for the reminder

Mine get checked like every month or so -each time my kids decide to have a play with the scanner and search for chips in every dog and cat LOL. In the little dogs and the cats though you can feel the chips.

Mine too are checked when they have their annual boosters. But last time one of them had to have another microchip as there was no trace of one done the previous year.

Get mine checked if I go to the vets for anything. Unfortunately Lana's is nowhere to be found and I haven't chipped her again.

the chip of my dog puppy slipped to the side so now instead of being between the shoulder blades it is now further down on the right hand side... the vet took ages to find it.

My girl was scanned all over her body and it was nowhere to be found didn't want to put her through an x-ray for it.

Same as ClaireyS.  The vet does a check when they have their annual health check.

>My girl was scanned all over her body and it was nowhere to be found didn't want to put her through an x-ray for it.

Has the vet asked you if they should give her a new chip? mine suggested that rather than x-raying him... but then just shortly after she found it. Both my dogs have passports so they have to be checked regularly, especially prior to taking them on trips abroad...I hope that his chip won't move any further...

Just a warning, I had my dog chipped. Didnt even think about checking it until about 3 years later.
When checked there was no micro chip!!!!! He got redone for free by the chip company!!!!
So now I get mine checked regularily!!!!!
Lea :)

I was going to say, does anyone know where you stand if the chip does go AWOL? Will the companies usually rechip for free, and is there a time limit of it being implanted? Am I correct in thinking it has to be a new number? If so what happens if your dog has health tests associated with the old chip number?

"If so what happens if your dog has health tests associated with the old chip number?"

Very good question Silver. I wonder if the KC and BVA have taken steps over this problem? How does a breeder prove which dog underwent testing when a chip goes missing if it is not DNA tested? It could be very disturbing to present a dog for eyetesting and suddenly discover their is no chip to be found when other health testing documents pertaining to the dog have its chip number on.  I have had one dog completely lose a chip and two other chips have massive moves to right down near to the elbows.

They weren't interested one bit when I advised them.  Although Lana will hopefully have another 4 yers in her (she's nearly 10) I won't be chipping her again to be truthful. 

This is why I always ask them to include their tattoo numbers as well.

Has anyone asked what happens to a dog with a valid pet passport if the chip goes dead?  Is there any system for adding the new number with a vets signature?  I suppose the vet would have no real way of being sure it was the same dog.

So will they have to start the thing all over again with new chip, new Rabies vaccination, titre test and 6 months wait?

I'm going to pick up Inka's pet passport next week, in preparation for our trip stateside, (probably Janaury now, as she is in season now), I just hope her chip is still reading loud and clear.

That's another good question Brainless... I will defo go and check that out, especially that Dexter's chip has already moved around. Would be very annoying if the dogs and us had to go through this whole process again in case the dogs had to be re-chipped.