National Microchip
Database Established
Responding to public appeals for easier ways to reunite lost
pets with their families, the American Microchip Advisory Council
for Animals (New Orleans) now is developing a nationwide umbrella
database to track microchips in companion animals, birds and
horses.
Groups such as the American Animal Hospital Association (Lakewood,
Colo.), the American Veterinary Medical Association (Schaumburg,
Ill.), The Humane Society of the United States (Washington),
the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(New York) and the National Animal Control Association (Olathe,
Kan.) had called for such a database to help animal care organizations,
veterinarians and disaster teams return lost pets to their
families.
The umbrella database, which will operate 24 hours a day,
will coordinate with recovery networks already in operation.
AMACA will work with microchip companies and participating
recovery networks to increase efforts to educate pet owners
about keeping their pets’ information current.
“AMACA’s umbrella database will unify and streamline
pet recovery in the United States now and into the future,”
said Liz Rauls of PETtrac, one of the country’s largest
recovery networks.
AMACA is an electronic community dedicated to helping animal-care
professionals develop standards and solutions regarding microchip
identification of companion animals.
For more information, visit www.AmacaUSA.org. [February 2007
PET AGE]
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