Pet owners stunned by sudden closure of microchip registry Save This Life
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — Microchips have been a useful tool to help reunite lost pets with their owners.
A chip about the size of a grain of rice is placed just under the skin, typically between the pet's shoulders. An electronic reader can be used to scan the chip and the number it displays can be used to search a national registry to find the animal's owner.
But a Texas-based microchip company appears to have abruptly gone out of business and in doing so, has disconnected its pet owners' data from registries.
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The company, Save This Life, appears to have created its own registry on which they invited pet owners to enter their information, regardless of which manufacturer made their pet's microchip.
By one count, there are more than 20 registries in North America alone.
Pet owners are able to go to an American Animal Hospital Association website to see if their information is there.
Even if their pet is microchipped, it is possible that the information linked to that chip can go back to the shelter or the veterinarian that placed the chip in the animal.
FOX 8 News attempted to reach Save This Life, by phone but it appears the phone number no longer works.
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On social media, pet owners are angry that the company appears to have shut its doors without any advance notice to them or to their veterinary partners.
The chips sold by the company are still functioning, but there may not be any access to the information linked to those chips.
Those whose pets had chips from Save This Life are being advised that they can enter their information on a different registry.
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