There's an upgrade to the PicKit2 that allows it to talk to many of the newer PICs. I think boyelroy11 wrote up a how-to on that a couple years ago. In involves updating the definition files -- and he provided the update along with it.
You also might try the PicKit2 standalone software -- you can find it here: It includes the update for the 16F1825 chip....
http://digwdf.org/store/ Even though the DIGWDF Store has been closed for almost five years, it's still awesome!
User guides, documentation and other files are still free and available for downloading.
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