About Microchip Scanners

Just as there are different pet microchips available, there are different scanners to detect and read microchips. This can make the process of reuniting a lost pet with its owner challenging. If a veterinarian or an animal shelter does not have access to a scanner that can read each kind of microchip currently in use in the United States, a microchipped pet and its owner may not be reunited.

Scanners designed for proprietary or encrypted microchips cannot read other microchips. If a micropchip's data cannot be read, a pet owner cannot be notified that their pet has been found reducing the chance of being reunited with their owner.

ResQ scanners can recognize all brands of tested microchips currently used in the United States* including encrypted and un-encrypted 125 kHz microchips as well as other ISO-compliant 134.2 kHz microchips.

ResQ™ is designed to be compatible with any ISO scanner for companion animals.