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Chipped, never registered
Clinics and breeders implant chips and skip registration. The number leads nowhere.
Ras Al Khaimah pilot · Animal Welfare Centre
Almost every pet is chipped. Almost none are findable.
A chip only helps if the number leads somewhere. PetRegistry gives every animal one national record — shared by every licensed clinic, shelter and authority.
- 1 in 5
- Chipped dogs ever returned to their owner
- 230
- Clinics emailed by hand for one found animal
- Zero
- Databases in existence for birds
- 3 months
- AWC's old system offline, no replacement
The problem
The data already exists. It just doesn't connect.
Six things the RAK Animal Welfare Centre deals with every day.
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One animal, many records
A transfer at a private clinic opens a new entry, even when the animal already exists in three other databases.
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Transfers without the owner
Ownership moves without the original owner present. No verification, no audit trail.
04
Import data locked away
The ministry holds every imported chip. Nobody outside can read it, and email requests go unanswered.
05
Recovery by mailing list
One found animal means a manual email to ~230 clinics. Most are never read.
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Species that don’t exist
Bring in a bird and there is no database to check at all.
The chips work. Four out of five microchipped dogs still never make it home — because nobody could look the number up.
Before / after
One lookup instead of one mailing list.
Today
- 01Animal arrives at the shelter.
- 02Chip scanned against one local database.
- 03No match — email ~230 clinics by hand.
- 04Wait, and hope someone replies.
- 05Any answer lives in an inbox, not a record.
1 in 5 reunited. Birds: nothing at all.
With PetRegistry
- 01Found by a shelter, a clinic or a resident.
- 02Chip or tag scanned against the national registry.
- 03Owner, vaccines and licence return instantly.
- 04No match: one alert reaches every licensed facility.
- 05The reunion is written to the record.
Minutes, auditable, every species.
The platform
Three surfaces, one record.
01 · Registry console
One record per animal, not one per clinic.
Search a chip, a tag or a name and get the whole animal on one timeline.
Chip, tag and name lookup
Age, desexed status, condition
Vaccination and licence expiry
Full ownership history
02 · Reunite app
The public becomes the sensor network.
A resident reports a found animal in under a minute — straight into the shelter's queue.
Report found or lost in one flow
Scan a collar tag with no account
Digital pet passport and reminders
Rewards for verified reunions
03 · Authority controls
Permissions that mirror real authority.
Transfers can be restricted to government facilities, and every action is logged to a named user.
Roles & permissions
| Action | Vet | Shelter | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| View national record | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Register a microchip | Yes | Yes | No |
| Update medical history | Yes | No | No |
| Transfer ownership | No | No | Yes |
| Audit log | No | No | Yes |
How it works
A found animal, from scanner to sofa.
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Scan
A chip reader, or a phone camera on the collar tag.
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Look up
One national lookup returns owner, licence and medical history.
03
Alert once
Unregistered? A single broadcast reaches licensed facilities nearby.
04
Log the outcome
The result is written back to the same permanent record.
Adoption
A registry only works if it is the only registry.
Voluntary adoption is what produced today’s fragmentation. So the model follows the licence: procured at ministry level, issued to facilities as part of licensing.
Arrange a briefingMinistry
National source of truth and policy levers
Municipality
Registration and licensing enforcement
Welfare centres
Instant identification on intake
Vet clinics
Registration at the point of chipping
Residents
Free pet ID, tag and lost-pet alerts
Contact
See the working demo.
Tell us where you sit and we’ll walk you through it with your own scenarios.
hello@petregistry.ae
Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates