Unregistered chips, disconnected phone numbers, rehomed lost pets and so many other frustrating scenarios plague the lost and found team when trying to reunite a lost pet with their people. I'm looking specifically for SOP's, but also any good tips or tricks to solving the hard to solve "ID trace" puzzles. What are your most successful pet detectives doing that is making a difference in your RTO rates for animals with messy ID situations?

Unregistered chips, disconnected phone numbers, rehomed lost pets and so many other frustrating scenarios plague the lost and found team when trying to reunite a lost pet with their people. I'm looking specifically for SOP's, but also any good tips or tricks to solving the hard to solve "ID trace" puzzles. What are your most successful pet detectives doing that is making a difference in your RTO rates for animals with messy ID situations?

The Community Cat Podcast did a great interview with Corinne Bourgoin of the MSPCA where they have a RTO of over 30% for cats!  Enjoy!

https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/episode-484-corinne-bourgoin/

Unregistered chips, disconnected phone numbers, rehomed lost pets and so many other frustrating scenarios plague the lost and found team when trying to reunite a lost pet with their people. I'm looking specifically for SOP's, but also any good tips or tricks to solving the hard to solve "ID trace" puzzles. What are your most successful pet detectives doing that is making a difference in your RTO rates for animals with messy ID situations?

Unregistered chips, disconnected phone numbers, rehomed lost pets and so many other frustrating scenarios plague the lost and found team when trying to reunite a lost pet with their people. I'm looking specifically for SOP's, but also any good tips or tricks to solving the hard to solve "ID trace" puzzles. What are your most successful pet detectives doing that is making a difference in your RTO rates for animals with messy ID situations?

Oftentimes when I find a chip that isn't registered, I am saved by the company that bought the microchip. Let's say the microchip isn't registered, but the microchip company can tell me X shelter/vet bought the chip. I can then contact them, and they often have the animal and owner on file. 

Now if their system comes up with nothing, I will ask if they can check for an animal with the next/previous microchip, since chip numbers are sometimes input incorrectly. For example if I'm looking for an animal with the chip 111, I can check 110 and 112, see if 111  is a sibling or check for other animals around that intake date to see who would have been 111. Sometimes depending on their software this isn't possible, but it's worth a try.

Unregistered chips, disconnected phone numbers, rehomed lost pets and so many other frustrating scenarios plague the lost and found team when trying to reunite a lost pet with their people. I'm looking specifically for SOP's, but also any good tips or tricks to solving the hard to solve "ID trace" puzzles. What are your most successful pet detectives doing that is making a difference in your RTO rates for animals with messy ID situations?