Pet owners beware: pet microchips fail as standards change  The pet microchip industry, previously standardized on a 125 kilohertz broadcast, now also offers a 134.2 kilohertz broadcast frequency, leading to errors in scanning and fewer lost pets recovered.

'There's no way to know how many lost animals might have been unclaimed by their owners and improperly euthanized because their chips couldn't be read by available scanners...'

 Shelters using 125 microchip scanners cannot identify Banfield PetSmart pet microchips, implanted with 134.2 microchips. [Herald Sun, American Association Veterinary Journal] Related: Reuniting pets with families

If you can't trust your pet's microchip, maybe it's time to Network your pet [Big Green Monkey] (might as well put some of that spyware to work for you... Future Fido may someday sport a cellphone, a GPS , a wi-fi modem, integrated with a live Microsoft Security Spy Center from Microsoft Windows Security and a microchip.)

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