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Perhaps one of the most interesting pieces of information we've come across in our work to solve microchip and lost pet issues is that most shelters do not share lost/found information between them. This may come as a shock to some of you, it did to us. Firstly, the issue is not malicious. Shelters do not do this because they want to or because they do not want to work together. Rather, it is a

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There are so many ways to help animals - helping lost animals to make their way back home is an important job. Statistics show that 1 in 3 pets will be lost in their lifetime. Less than 3% of lost cats will make it back home. Less than 15% of lost dogs will make it back home. As Steve Wozniak (founder of Apple Computers) says, "In a technologically connected world and in Silicon Valley

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The state of the microchip mess. We came across this forum thread discussing the issues with finding your pet's microchip database and found this a good time to talk about issues with multiple microchip databases. Lets start with a clear example of the complexity of the problem: Lets say you wanted to find the owner of a car through the cars license plate number. Lets also say that the State

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Shelters = orphanages for pets; a place where we take pets who do not have a home, where we take pets that we don't want anymore so they don't have to live on the street, a shelter for those who have been abused to recover. This is a good thing. For those of you who love critical thinking and plausible theory, what formula would we need to make a shelter obsolete, to create a scenario where

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In the world of animal rescue, there are two major players: publicly funded animal shelters small, local, independent pet rescue groups While traditional animal shelters are familiar to most, smaller rescue groups still remain mostly obscure and operate by word-of-mouth. Some of these groups are very small while others are very large and quite well funded. The animal rescue groups work

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This morning, I found a lost dog. She is a friendly, chocolate brown tuxedo Pitbull/Corgi mix wearing a collar but no tags. She happily followed me back home, leaping and wagging her tail, desperately wanting to play with Chloe who was with me on our morning walk. At home, I grabbed my universal microchip scanner to find her microchip but I couldn't scan because the batteries were too low (a

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