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A couple of weeks ago i rehomed a greyhound bitch to a genuine chap in Birmingham. A few days later i had a phone call from the RSPCA in brum saying the dog had been found wandering the streets, apparently she had slipped her lead and had chased some ducks across a canal and had got lost. The new owner was contacted and was so delighted to be re-united with the dog and it was a genuine accident that the dog had escaped.I was contacted via my local track from the tattoo in her ear, apparently the microchip number was not even on the data base, so what is the point of micro- chipping all our dogs if the numbers are not being recognised.
Dave Wood United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 2840 Dogs 14 / Races 0 11 Apr 2010 18:10
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The data is held on GBGB's own database which is absolutely useless when a dog is found on the streets, they claimed that this sort of scenario would result in a quicker reuniting with dog and owner.
If they had placed all the data onto the Petlog Database alongside their own it may have had a bit more clout, after all it was supposed to be put in to allow people to follow every dog to its grave, yet another balls up.
Someone I know on the Flaps has just had a 2nd chip inserted, unaware that it had already been issued on a licenced track, I wonder what will happen in reverse, if a flapping dog goes onto licenced track are they going to allow that Chip to stand or are they going to insist on 1 of their own.
Dave, I didnt know that i thought the microchip number was on a general data base that could be accessed by relevant groups ie dog pounds. I was so worried about the dog when i first had the call and annoyed that the system is not working
Sandra Davis United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 6 Dogs 0 / Races 0 11 Apr 2010 19:46
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Rob, I run a Greyhound Sanctuary (Fen Bank) and when we had our first GBGB dogs in in January with the new chip in place I rang the GBGB and was assured that any dog warden picking up a dog would contact them to identify an earmarked chipped greyhound. So to test this I rang our local dog warden who came down, read the chips of the 5 new dogs in, and was completely at a loss to know where they came from. She didn't know who the GBGB were and tried to contact the NGRC on their old number which unsurprisingly is no longer in service! I then rang Petlog (the national database ) who had no record of the datamars chips for any greyhounds and who informed me that just this once they would register these dogs free of charge, but therafter we would incur a charge for each dog re- registered. As an independent Greyhound Charity this is not good news since we can insert our own chips a lot cheaper than the cost of re-registering. I then asked my Kennel Manager to raise the matter with Clarissa Baldwin ( Chief Exec.Dogs Trust) as she is on the Greyhound Forum. She duly did this and was assured that all rehomed dogs could be re-registered by the RGT and that yes the data was held at GBGB on a secure database. It is as you say an absolute farce- the dogs are not protected because while the RGT and ourselves do re- register dogs, there are other organisations that do not - and many genuine people who haven't got a clue how to go about it, once they are told by Petlog that the chip is not on their database. In my view it was a cynical exercise to obtain UKAS accreditation and there are a number of tracks that are not using the scheme correctly- and nobody seems to be particularly concerned I have a foot in both camps and the only difference I can see that it has made is that you cannot trial a dog before it has been chipped and you can't race it either. How that improves the Welfare of the racing greyhound I am at a loss to understand. Anyone who cares about these superb athletes is right to be seething- it6 is about time the GBGB got something right for a change and genuinly showed a concern for the servants who let's face it, pay their salaries ,by their efforts on the track.
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