Microchips are very important tools in helping reunite lost pets with their owners but every day we see cases where people scanning chips do not know how to look them up. We are told the chips are unregistered and they aren’t. We are told there isn’t a chip and there is. There are so many cracks in the microchip system that we hope to share some very important information about the problems. Several years ago, the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), a leading proponent of microchipping, began a non-branded online “pet look up service.” By entering a microchip number on the AAHA look-up site, individuals have the best chance of locating who the chip is registered to. We will talk about 900 microchips and how these chips are very possibly never registered or registries kept for pets with these chips.

BIO:

Kathy Pobloskie is the co-founder of Lost Dogs of America and Director/Founder of Lost Dogs of Wisconsin. Kathy joins us every month to discuss the many methods of helping to reunite lost pets. Our goals each month are to help give people the tools they need to find their lost pets as quickly as possible and to reunite the found ones with their family. Our main goal is always to reunite the lost with their families and to keep more strays out of our local overcrowded shelters.