Puck
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Tonight I am taking Sammy to a different vet who offers the Home Again chip (which has 9 digits and can be read by a "universal" chip scanner). For those of you who don't know, about a week and a half ago I went to my normal avian vet and told her I needed to microchip my Quaker for international travel to Honduras--the Pet Passport requires a form of permanent identification, and the Honduran government requires the chips be checked at the airport. It went SO much better than I expected, they put him out for only three minutes, got the chip in, then he was ready to go home fifteen minutes later. He didn't even act sore, playing with the feathers where he was stuck just a bit then ignoring it. All seemed well... until I realized that he'd been chipped with an AVID chip, a company whose 8-digit numbers are encrypted so they can only be read with an AVID scanner--common in the USA but rare everywhere else. So I did more research and realized that to get my baby to Central America he needed a 9 digit chip that can be read by a universal scanner, be it an ISO chip or the Home Again. (The first vet gave me my money back and was VERY apologetic.) So I called around and found an avian vet who does Home Again chips... Only thing is that he doesn't plan to anesthetize Sammy when he sticks him.
This makes me feel sick, as I am already going to have to leave him the evening before and pick him up the next day thanks to my work and how far away this vet office is. My last vet said that putting it in such a small bird without anesthesia would be cruel. Should I ask this vet to give him the anesthesia? They've said they another plan to use anesthesia if he gets upset. I am already feeling a huge mound of guilt over the poor guy having to get stuck twice... I don't want him to be in a huge amount of pain. What do you guys think I should do?
This makes me feel sick, as I am already going to have to leave him the evening before and pick him up the next day thanks to my work and how far away this vet office is. My last vet said that putting it in such a small bird without anesthesia would be cruel. Should I ask this vet to give him the anesthesia? They've said they another plan to use anesthesia if he gets upset. I am already feeling a huge mound of guilt over the poor guy having to get stuck twice... I don't want him to be in a huge amount of pain. What do you guys think I should do?