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Originally Posted by kalina82  The first microchip available was the AVID chip i believe that that is the scanner that most shelters have. Now there is also the home again chip, and scanner. The home again scanner will not read the avid chip numbers however it will tell you that there is an avid chip in the dog, then the vet/shelter will know about it and they will find the avid scanner to use. The avid scanner also will not read the home again chips but it will tell you something is there. I believe there is a scanner out there that will read both chips but its not regularly used. |
I'm not sure about the Home Again scanners, but the Avid scanners can read other chips that use the same frequency. It doesn't tell you who it's from unless it's an Avid chip, but it can read the number.
The other day I used an Avid scanner on both my dogs.... Charlie has a Home Again chip and Lilly has one from Avid.... The Avid scanner read Lilly's chip and told me it was from Avid. Then I scanned Charlie (with his Home Again chip) and it did read the number, but it couldn't tell me it was from Home Again.
I might take them into another vet that uses the Home Again scanners and have both of them scanned just to see what that one can read...