Here is some advice,

I bought a Springer Spaniel a few years ago and I spent the money to have a chip installed.

A few months later the dog was stolen from my yard.

I called the vet that did the operation and his reply to me was that he does not scan a dog unless he knows that there is a chip inside it.

So what good does it do to have a chip installed inside your pet if the vet is not willing to turn in the person that stole it in the first place.

There is a big sign outside his office that says that all of his pets are protected by them chips.

It made me so mad that I almost wanted to kill his horses just to make him feel the grief that he made me feel when he told me that he was not willing to turn in someone with a stolen dog and was not willing to look for it. Even though he was the person that strongly suggested just a few months before to have the chip installed.