Microchips from PetsMart Vets

This came to me from one of the many pet groups I belong to. If you have had a pet microchipped at one of the Banfield Vets located in PetsMart stores, you should be aware:

Citing "the potential for pets to be euthanized" as a result of
deceptive advertising by Medical Management International, Inc. dba Banfield,
the Pet Hospital, the San Diego Superior Court yesterday issued a
preliminary injunction blocking Banfield from selling or advertising its pet ID microchips,
sold under the name RecoveryChip. Banfield Pet Hospitals are located in
PETsMART stores throughout the United States.

If Banfield wants to resume selling or promoting its RecoveryChip,
thecourt must first approve that Banfield's proposed advertisements and
other promotional materials disclose that the chip "cannot be read by the
vast majority of (microchip) scanners in U.S. shelters." Judge William C.
Pate noted that Banfield's actions had created a "risk of great, irreparable
harm ... specifically the increased potential for pets to be euthanized while
their owners believe them to be safe."
The vast majority of U.S. animal shelters and vet clinics utilize a scanner
system based on 125 kHz. Banfield introduced an incompatible 134.2 kHz microchip,
used mainly in foreign countries, which cannot be read by scanners used by most
American veterinarians and shelters.