Mine are not.
Scanners are not universal, chips move around or hide behind organs so they cannot be read, and as katili mentioned, alot of places don't check for chips anyway.
Depending on what part of the country you're in, if a cat is picked up and sneezes while it's at the pound, it's usually euthanized within a few hours because a sneeze automatically means that a cat has a URI. Microchips don't do much for those that are blue juice happy...
Cats that have an upper respiratory infection don't have a UTI although they could.
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