Is your pet's microchip actually registered?
A microchip only leads home if the number is linked to your details on a registry. Enter the number and we'll tell you where it sits.
- Free, and no account needed
- We don't keep the number you enter
- No personal details are ever shown
Microchipped and registered are two different things
A microchip is a number under your pet's skin. It holds no contact details of its own. When a vet, shelter or council scans a lost animal, they read that number and look it up on a registry, and what they find is whatever was recorded there.
So a pet can be chipped properly and still be unreachable, usually because the registration was never completed, or because the details belong to a breeder, a previous owner or a phone number from three houses ago.
Common reasons a check comes back empty
- The chip was implanted but the registration was never finished.
- The pet is still recorded to the breeder, shelter or previous owner.
- A digit was written down incorrectly somewhere along the way.
- The registry holding it isn't one we can search, which happens with some working and racing animals.
About Central Animal Records
We're an Australian pet registry. Vets, shelters and councils search our records when they scan a lost animal, which is why keeping the details on a registration current matters as much as having one at all.