Rescue and welfare transfers

Rescue Centre Microchip Transfer and Rehoming Guide

Historical enquiries show many rescue organisations asking how to add surrendered animals to their account or transfer them to adopters. The correct route depends on the database holding each chip.

Find the microchip database Get assisted help

For rescues

Scan and record the chip number
Identify the database
Keep surrender or intake paperwork
Follow the provider's welfare or organisation-account process
After adoption, complete the database's keeper-transfer workflow

PetChipHelp is an independent guidance service. We can help identify the database and explain the process, but official microchip records are changed by the database provider that holds the registration.

Have the microchip number?

Check which database appears to hold the record, then go straight to the right provider.

Check the chip number