Hi folks,
I wonder if I could ask a big favour, as many of you will already know microchipping of dogs becomes compulsory next April, it will also become compulsory to keep the address details of the keeper of the dog up to date, at first glance this seems to be a fairly simple request, BUT there are at present, I think, six UK databases that can register the dog and keepers details. If you have a microchipped dog, but have not got any paperwork that should accompany the dog when it changes keepers, you then need to know which database it was originally registered with.
I am trained to microchip dogs, and mainly do working collies some of which change hands a number of times before they find the right owner, some of my clients have already asked me how to change the address details, unfortunately I can only help them if their dog is microchipped with a pet detect microchip.
This is where the favour comes in, microchips have a 15 digit number, the first 3 numbers indicate the manufacturers code, I was hoping some of you would have a look at your dogs paperwork for the microchip and tell me what the first 3 numbers are and which database it is registered with, so I can at least point someone to the right database to change their details.
I have found some of the details online but there are some missing, and some databases use multiple manufacturers, these are the databases and some of the chip numbers that they use.
Pet identity
Smarttrac
Petlog - 956
petprotect - 960
Animark - 981
Petrac - 977
I would be really grateful if you could help to fill in some of the gaps.
Thank you
Regards
Sue