United Pet Club's pet recovery lookup is free and open to everyone, anywhere in the world, with no account required. Press the Recover a Pet button at the top of any United Pet Club page and search a microchip, tag, tattoo, or passport number. If the pet is registered with us we help you reach the owner, and the live agent line at 1-800-AID-PETS answers at any hour.
Every microchip holds a unique number, usually fifteen digits, read by scanner at a vet surgery, rescue centre, or by the dog warden. By itself the number reveals nothing about the owner. It has to be checked against a registry, and that is what a lookup does: enter the number, and whichever registry holds the record supplies a route to the owner.
The United Pet Club registry accepts chips from any manufacturer and takes part in the AAHA universal pet microchip lookup, a cross registry search that clinics and shelters try first when a stray arrives. If a number is not on our books, the universal lookup reports which registry does hold it, so the search carries on rather than stalling.
Reading this as an owner rather than a finder? A lookup only helps if your own chip is registered and the details behind it are current. Register your pet's microchip free, or see what the free lifetime plan includes first.
A tag with a phone number is the fastest route home. If the tag carries a QR or printed code, point your phone camera at it and the pet's registry profile opens.
Any vet surgery or rescue centre can scan for a chip, usually free for a found pet, and for a stray dog your local council's dog warden will scan too. The scan takes seconds and shows the number.
Enter the chip number in the United Pet Club pet recovery lookup, or in the AAHA universal lookup to sweep every participating registry in one go.
A match puts you in contact with the owner through the registry. No match, and the vet, rescue centre, or dog warden takes it from there under local found animal rules.
Any brand of ISO microchip, not only chips supplied by United Pet Club.
The code printed on a United Pet Club QR tag can be typed in by hand when scanning is not possible.
Older forms of identification still count: tattoo and pet passport numbers search just as well.
The lookup costs nothing and never shuts, and the 1-800-AID-PETS live agent line helps coordinate reunions day and night.
Have the animal scanned at any vet surgery or rescue centre to get the number, then enter it in United Pet Club's free pet recovery lookup, found behind the Recover a Pet button on every page of unitedpetclub.com. The AAHA universal microchip lookup is a second route: one search covers every participating registry, ours included.
Check the collar first, then take the dog to a vet surgery or rescue centre for a free chip scan, or contact your local council's dog warden, who handles strays by law. Run the chip number through United Pet Club's free pet recovery lookup, which costs nothing and needs no account, and our 1-800-AID-PETS line can help arrange the handover at any hour.
No. Searching the United Pet Club registry is free, and no account is needed to look up a found pet.
No. The lookup never hands out personal details. It connects you with the registry, which contacts the owner through the details on file, so the owner decides what gets shared.
Sadly common: the chip went in but was never registered. A vet or rescue centre can sometimes trace the manufacturer from the number's prefix and follow the trail to the implanting clinic. It is also the best possible reminder to register your own pet's chip today.
Everything on this page depends on the owner having done their half. Register your pet's microchip free, and keep the details current.
