Free Pet Microchip Registration

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FREE Microchip Registration

 Why register your pet’s microchip here?

• Find your pet’s microchip registration with Google:

  
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• Any Microchip ID
• Any Microchip Company
• Search and find your microchip registration from any internet connection including your iPhone or Droid.
• No member account required
• It’s Free

Member Registration benefits:

• If you own or plan to register multiple pets all your registrations show up on your profile.  See example (Especially useful for rescue groups)
• Keep your IDENTITY PRIVATE*
• Edit or Remove your member registration at any time.
• If you need to remove a pet registration you may do that
• Send and Receive messages without giving out your private information*
• Share your thoughts and ideas by adding, and removing your own posts*
• Have a concern, or question? Add a post and ask the community*

(* must be logged in as a member – registration is FREE)

The Recovery process

When a pet is found and has a microchip, the local shelter or vet hospital will be calling the microchip company to locate the owner through the registration on file. So what happens if you don’t register? Most companies keep a record of the distributor who the microchip was sent to from the factory. This facility may be contacted with hope that your information can be found there, otherwise no one knows who this pet belongs to and is sent to the local shelter or rescue group.

If you happen to come forward and claim your pet once at the shelter be prepared to pay to get it back. Not only do you run the risk of loosing your pet but also incurring costly fees by the shelter. Always keep a personalized collar or tag on your pet. This will help your neighbor, who usually finds the pet first, know how to reach you.

If your pet is registered on this website, it may be a good idea to have a collar or tag made with the following information. “Google my id: 000-000-000″ or call “Microchip Co. phone #” most custom tags and collars can be purchased for about $10-20 (US dollars)

Warning!

NOTE:  Registration with just any microchip company does not guarantee you’ll be re-united with your pet.  It needs to be the company who manufactured the microchip.

Beware of websites claiming to have an all in one worldwide database.  While it may be true that you can register any microchip brand on their website, unless the person looking for you knows what website you registered with, NO One will be able to find your pet’s registration. Unless they go to that specific website and search their internal database.

PetOwnerWorld.com on the other hand makes use of  ”Google” to initiate the search, by taking advantage of Google’s powerful search engine to find your pet’s microchip registration.  Even if people don’t know about PetOwnerWorld.com all they need to know is to go to Google and search your pet’s microchip number.  Help put the word out and tweeter your friends let your friends on facebook know the newly discovered PetOwnerWorld.com  and stop the madness.  Help lost pets find their way home.  Google My ID “091-005-895″.

A Microchip is NOT a Satellite Enabled or GPS Device

A Microchip – is used as a means of identification for your pet.

GREAT!  You got a microchip for your pet.
No doubt you have made the right choice in protecting your pet and ensuring that it makes it back home should it get lost.
But WAIT! Did you follow up on the registration with the microchip company?
If you haven’t, do it now.  If you think your vet or shelter did it for you verify it.  See the list of microchip companies below.

A pet is like having a child, and as a responsible pet owner, it’s up to you to make sure your pet microchip registration is completed.   Did you know that a large percentage of all pets with a microchip go unregistered? That’s right there are thousands of pets out there with a microchip but the registration was never completed and no one knows who they belong to.  Think about it this way, driver licenses and Social Security numbers are issued for one reason and that is to identify an indivual. Like microchip numbers these numbers are unique, however the registration of a social security or driver’s licence is automatically registered by the proper authorities.

Registration of  Pet Microchips on the other hand are not automatically registered contrary to popular belief.  It is up to the pet owner to take responsibility and register with the microchip company / manufacturer. In some cases the veterinary hospital or shelter may in fact do this for you, but don’t rely on it.

If your vet says they will submit a registration for you, follow up in a couple weeks with the microchip company and make sure it was done.  Don’t wait until your pet gets out to find out the registration was never taken care of.

To improve the chances that your pet is safely returned home you must register with the proper microchip company. Contact the manufacturer of your pet’s microchip for details on how to register.  Below is a list of the most common microchip companies, if you are not sure of which company to call ask the facility who implanted the microchip on your pet.  If you adopted a pet which already has a microchip in it, call the list of microchip companies below and ask if it is one of theirs.  You can start with AVID at 1-800-336-2843 if it’s not one of theirs chances are they can tell you who it belongs to.  Once you determine who manufactured your pet’s microchip contact them for registration instructions.

(We are constantly looking to update this list if you know of a company not listed below please use the “contact” page to send us a note.)

• 24 Pet Watch – 866-597-2424
• AKC – 800-252-7894
• Avid – 800-336-2843
• Avid – Canada – 800-338-1397
• Avid – UK – 800-336-2843 (within the UK 0800 652 8977)
• Banfield – 800-838-6738
• Bayer – 800-633-3796
• Destron / Digital Angel – 800-328-0118
• EIDAP – 888-346-8899
• HomeAgain – 866-738-4324
• Microchip ID Systems Inc. – 800-434-2843
• PetIDGreen – 877-738-4384
• PetKey – 866-973-8539
• PetLink – 877-738-5465
• Trovan – 800-463-6738

Microchip Companies and Microchip registration

There’s a number of microchip companies and each one maintains their own internal database.  Unless the person finding your pet knows where you registered or who the microchip company is, the odds of finding you are very low. Likewise even the professionals in the field are not always able to identify the maker of every microchip. This causes a lot of grief and frustration plus wasted resources on the part of those who try to do the right thing and go in search of the pet owner to help in the recovery of a lost pet.

Several man hours are spent by both pet hospitals and shelters having to make phone calls to several companies just to figure out where the owner registered and in many cases only to come to a dead end. The owner thought the vet or shelter was going to take care of it or simply didn’t realize they needed too.

www.PetOwnerWorld.com was designed with this in mind, by allowing it’s database to be accessed and searched by the search enginges on ”The Internet”.   What’s the benefit?  By using any search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing, and searching for the microchip number one can easily locate the pet owner.  See example

So no matter where in the world the microchip came from, the owner can be located if registered on this website and the best part is, it’s FREE!

Microchip vs. License

License

License numbers are given by your local authorities as a means to control the pet population in your area and granting you the right to own or have that pet in you home. A dog tag is made and placed on a dog collar. Sometimes people add a phone number on the tag to assist with the recovery in case the pet gets out. What happens if the dog tag fall off or worse yet, someone likes your pet and decides to keep it. How do you get it back?

Microchip

A microchip is implanted under the skin making it safe and secure from falling off or being taken off. A scanner is used to read its number.  Personalized Dog tags and collars can still be used to help with the recovery as usual. Even if the collar and dog tag are taken off the microchip remains implanted in the pet and sooner or later that pet will end up at a vet clinic or shelter and getting scanned.  This increases your chances of getting your pet back tenfold. But you must register its microchip number somewhere. Preferrably with the manufacturing company and then here it’s FREE.

For Pets Sake

If no where else do the right thing and register it here. Your information can remain private and your pet’s safety greatly enhanced.