The Message:
We the undersigned have concerns about the process of the micro chipping of animals for identification, while we all agree that this is the most efficient way to re-unite animal with owner and would agree with any progress to make this a legal requirement.
Our concerns at this moment in time are that some vets and most councils are not scanning for a microchip on presentation of an animal unknown to them / picked up as a traffic accident , and by not scanning they could miss an animal that has been stray or lost to the owner of that animal.
We would therefore ask that this process of scanning every unknown animal should become second nature and included in any vet training.
Otherwise what would be the point of micro chipping, one animal that falls through the net can cause so much anguish to a distraught owner, for the sake of a 30 second scan.
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