Anyone, anywhere on the planet, can use United Pet Club's pet recovery lookup, and it costs nothing. Hit the Recover a Pet button up top of any United Pet Club page and search a microchip, tag, tattoo, or passport number. Pet's registered with us? We'll help track the owner down, and 1-800-AID-PETS has live agents on the line around the clock.
Every microchip carries a unique number, usually 15 digits, and a vet, shelter, or council ranger pulls it up with a scanner. On its own that number's meaningless, tells you nothing about the owner. It has to get matched against a registry, and that matching is all a lookup does: type the number in, and whichever registry holds the record hands back a way to reach the owner.
Our registry takes chips from any manufacturer and sits inside the AAHA universal pet microchip lookup, usually the first thing a clinic or shelter checks when a stray turns up. Not in our system? The universal lookup points to whichever registry does hold it, so the search keeps moving instead of dead-ending.
Owner reading this rather than a finder? A lookup's only useful if your own chip's registered and your details are current. Register your pet's microchip free, or check what the free lifetime plan includes.
A tag with a phone number is the quickest fix going. QR or printed code on it? Point your phone camera at it and up pops the registry profile.
Any vet clinic or shelter can run a scanner over it, usually free for a stray. Takes seconds, and the chip number shows up straight away.
Feed it into the United Pet Club pet recovery lookup, or the AAHA universal lookup if you want every participating registry checked in one hit.
Match found, and the registry connects you with the owner directly. No match, and the vet or shelter takes it from there under local council rules.
Any brand of ISO chip, not only the ones we sell.
No scanner handy? The code off a United Pet Club QR tag types straight in by hand.
Older ID methods still work here too, the lookup takes tattoo and pet passport numbers.
No fee, never closes, and 1-800-AID-PETS has live agents ready to help with a reunion at any hour.
Get it scanned first, any vet or shelter will do, then punch the number into United Pet Club's free pet recovery lookup, sitting behind the Recover a Pet button on every page of unitedpetclub.com. The AAHA universal microchip lookup's another option, checks a bunch of participating registries, ours included, in one go.
Not a cent. Searching the United Pet Club registry is free, and there's no account needed to look up a stray.
No, personal details don't come out of a lookup like that. It hooks you up with the registry, and the registry contacts the owner through whatever details are on file, keeping the owner in charge of what actually gets shared.
Happens more than people expect, chip's in but was never registered. A vet or shelter can sometimes trace the manufacturer off the number's prefix and follow up with whoever bought it. Also the best possible reason to get your own pet's chip registered right now.
A free tool that checks a stack of registries in one search and shows which ones hold a record for a given chip number. United Pet Club's part of it, which is why shelters can dig up our records fast.
This whole page only helps a finder if you've done your bit as the owner. Register your pet's microchip free, and keep those details current.
