hi i hope none of you needs this information but i felt it may be usefull.
Last year i had my dog Ruby all sorted for her pet passport everything went well and we took her to france and got her home very easily no problems atall .We came home at the end of august and 2 months later got a letter from our vets telling us that there had been problems with the chips that had been inserted and would we like to go to the vets and have it scanned to ensure that ours wasnt one of those affected , we did this and the chip was fine.
So this year we booked to go to france on 14 june on the 1 june we recieved a reminder from our vet that Ruby needed her health check and booster vaccinations we took her on the 3 june and mentioned that we were off to france again on the 14th vet says ok will just check her chip OH NO chip has failed so he put new chip in he says he will get in touch with defra but all should be ok now to cut a very very long storey short 2 hours ago iv been told that i cannot travel till 27 june (you have to wait 21 days after rabies injection) not my fault not vets fault but if you have one of these chips inserted in your animals to avoid dissapointment get it checked at least a month before you go we cant now take Ruby with us not even sure if we can go trying to sort care for Ruby . This chip is made by VIRBECK if yours is by this company please get it checked well in advance i cant tell you how much upset this has caused . Yes we now have a brand new pet passport and next time we go so will Ruby but this time im gutted my holiday is ruined.
Last year i had my dog Ruby all sorted for her pet passport everything went well and we took her to france and got her home very easily no problems atall .We came home at the end of august and 2 months later got a letter from our vets telling us that there had been problems with the chips that had been inserted and would we like to go to the vets and have it scanned to ensure that ours wasnt one of those affected , we did this and the chip was fine.
So this year we booked to go to france on 14 june on the 1 june we recieved a reminder from our vet that Ruby needed her health check and booster vaccinations we took her on the 3 june and mentioned that we were off to france again on the 14th vet says ok will just check her chip OH NO chip has failed so he put new chip in he says he will get in touch with defra but all should be ok now to cut a very very long storey short 2 hours ago iv been told that i cannot travel till 27 june (you have to wait 21 days after rabies injection) not my fault not vets fault but if you have one of these chips inserted in your animals to avoid dissapointment get it checked at least a month before you go we cant now take Ruby with us not even sure if we can go trying to sort care for Ruby . This chip is made by VIRBECK if yours is by this company please get it checked well in advance i cant tell you how much upset this has caused . Yes we now have a brand new pet passport and next time we go so will Ruby but this time im gutted my holiday is ruined.