Do not think that you will be reunited with your lost pet in NSW because the animal is microchipped. I think it is very wrong that NSW council pounds can ignore that your pet's ownership details may be recorded on a different register other than the NSW companion animal database. They may take the microchip number, add it to the NSW register and record ownership to somebody completely different. You may never know but if you do find out, you are powerless to change it. If the dog or cat is found and it has slipped its collar identity tags, if it is not registered on the NSW Companion Animal register, which is not linked to other national databases, then after 14 days your pet may be put down or legal ownership given over to someone else.
Spook said
08:36 PM May 8, 2014
Stuff NSW then. Why would one go there...................oh yeah, it's filled with good people, except the beaurocrats..................and the pollies..................and the druggies................ad infinitum!
Rivor said
10:07 PM May 8, 2014
I recommend that when you call the council ranger and vet clinics, that you include your lost pet's microchip number with the information you give them. When they scan the animal and come up with a blank on the NSW register, they might at least still have your info in a drawer somewhere and it's much easier and reliable to check a number than a description.
pawsoz said
01:16 PM May 11, 2014
Sadly this is actually the case in most States it's all down to the fact that in the early days of microchipping there was no uniformity and 2-3 different microchip registers, also at one time RSPCA had chip readers that could only read some of the chips...
Annie
Do not think that you will be reunited with your lost pet in NSW because the animal is microchipped. I think it is very wrong that NSW council pounds can ignore that your pet's ownership details may be recorded on a different register other than the NSW companion animal database. They may take the microchip number, add it to the NSW register and record ownership to somebody completely different. You may never know but if you do find out, you are powerless to change it. If the dog or cat is found and it has slipped its collar identity tags, if it is not registered on the NSW Companion Animal register, which is not linked to other national databases, then after 14 days your pet may be put down or legal ownership given over to someone else.
Stuff NSW then. Why would one go there...................oh yeah, it's filled with good people, except the beaurocrats..................and the pollies..................and the druggies................ad infinitum!
Annie