Microchip question

[ICit]

After you pay for the initial fee to register the chip (if there is one), the yearly fee is merely to provide you with additional services that are unrelated to the chip registration, meaning you don't have to pay YEARLY for the chip to point to you as the owner to be contacted. I had been paying HomeAgain over and over for services I never used (they email your missing pet's info. to other HomeAgain email addresses they have. I didn't want that extra service so I stopped paying the annual fees. I am not sure what all they offer now for the yearly fee but if you have say ... 7 dogs and several cats (ahem ICit?), that's a LOT of $$ to spend every year for extra services.

nope... dont pay the yearly fee.... and I try to be very careful with my dogs.. and try to be one step ahead of them when it come to getting away...

 

[Roman]

So wait...I got my dog from the Humane Society, and it had a chip. I've never paid for any registration; do I need to get him re-chipped or something?

ACD, they will not re-chip the pet. What you have to do is register the existing chip in your name. I went through this with the cat I posted about in post #16. I had to get permission to do so from the previous owner.

 

[ArkRescue]

nope... dont pay the yearly fee.... and I try to be very careful with my dogs.. and try to be one step ahead of them when it come to getting away...

I figured you don't pay .. just used you as an example of how easily that kind of EXTRA fee can add up.