02/10/2024
The unauthorised microchip database PetChip info has stooped to a new low, by sending out emails to the customers they have already scammed, asking for more money to keep the microchip registered!!
If you are unlucky enough to have paid and registered your dog or cat on the PetChip info database, when your pet is lost and then has a registration check to get them home, the microchip will read as unregistered! The pet can be rehomed after seven days, as we have seen already.
Defra have issued a warning on their microchipping link below.
It would be helpful if the veterinary profession could help pet owners and alert them. It would be easy to show customers, at a pet’s first veterinary treatment, how to check and update their own registration. They could reach so many pet owners if the will was there to support the whole microchip system.
Pet insurance companies could warn and advise their customers too!
Microchip databases that meet Government standards: https://www.gov.uk/get-your-dog-cat-microchipped
Trading Standards warned about the unauthorised microchip database in February 2021. The database often changes it’s name and continues to trade and scam UK pet people: https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy-campaigns/news-room/2021/warning-about-unauthorised-pet-microchip-registry/
