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09/08/2008, 11:46 odile Joined on 09/05/2008 East Mids + Swiss Jura Posts 555 Re: How to Register Your Pet's Microchip in France when we adopted Gadsby from friends in Switzerland who couldn't keep her (to come and live in UK until we can make final move back to the Jura)- the vet advised that the microchip she had was an old fashioned one, and may be impossible for all modern international machines to read. So before they brought her over to Calais to be picked up by moi, they fitted her with a new international chip. She has been coming back and forth with us no prob. On our last visit to the vet in Calais  - there was a young couple and 2 kids with a long haired dachshund, all in tears (I think the dog too) - they explained that they had gone to pick the dog up from her mum in Poland, as she was too ill to keep her. they had gone through all the vaccination, passport, etc, and had waited patiently for the dates. but when they got to the vet in Calais, her machine couldn't read the chip, so couldn't sign the passport. the young couple who live in Manchester said they didn;t have the money to replace chip, so we offered to pay. the vet refused, saying she couldn't prove the dog was indeed the dog from the passport. The  vet gave them 2 choices:  get in touch with vet in Poland and ask him to send machine for reading chip asap, whilst they wait in a hotel. Or drive back to Poland to pick up machine, or get chip changed for modern international version. They left in floods of tears with little dog Sonia. We still wonder which options they took, or chose  3/ hide Sonia for the crossing and return to Mancheter asap, ..or 4/ leave her by the roadside in Calais (although they were so devastated that I am sure they didn;t do that.)  Very sad, I think about them often. so if you do adopt a dog from abroad, beware, many older microchips are not internationally readable.    Report

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