#FernsLaw 🐾❤️🐾

Law to microchip dogs & cats but optional to check! Make it compulsory for vets to check microchip registration at first treatment #FernsLaw #MakeChipsCount

[#FernsLaw 🐾❤️🐾 @CheckThatChip]

Stolen Fern was reunited after 6 years picked up as a stray dog. She could have been home earlier because she’d had a medical procedure! #MakeChipsCount to reunite missing #dogs #cats PLS email your #MP https://t.co/Gc7vGSwijV #FernsLaw #ScanMe #VetsGetScanning @VetsGetScanning

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘27 MAY 2026 #Lost Harry #ScanMe
German Shepherd Cross Male #PUPPY
Sighting in Nelson Avenue around 12pm today
#Howden #Livingston #EH54
City of #Edinburgh #Scotland
He is timid but approachable.
https://t.co/A1LfDndPJC

[MakeChipsCount to Reunite Pets @VetsGetScanning]

Thank you 🐾❤️🐾
24,000 signatures another 76,000 needed to trigger a debate in parliament, petition closes on 5th June 2026!! Please help save the Central Microchip Portal a single login available for vets, wardens and police, 24/7 linking all 25 UK microchip databases https://t.co/vuTl8q6oWt

#MakeChipsCount #ScanMe #PetTheftReform #Lost #Microchipped #PetTheftReform

[MakeChipsCount to Reunite Pets @VetsGetScanning]

This is exactly why we need a Central Microchip Portal. 🐾

Bo, a family’s beloved therapy dog for their autistic child, went missing at a beach in Cornwall. He was microchipped and fully registered with up-to-date owner details — but the vet who scanned him didn’t have an account with that particular database, so couldn’t access the owner’s contact information directly.

The result? Inaccurate information was shared publicly stating Bo wasn’t microchipped or registered. A distressing call was made to the family demanding information. Personal details were passed to a third party. And a family spent hours in agony searching for their dog — not because the chip failed, but because the system failed.

Bo made it home safely. But this story shows exactly what happens when 25 databases can’t talk to each other. A vet, warden or rescuer shouldn’t need an account with the right database to reunite a pet with their family. A central portal would have resolved this in minutes.

“This wouldn’t have happened if there was the Government’s Central Microchip Portal.” The promised central portal was going to link the 25 microchip databases with a single login available 24/7 for authorised users, insuring quick reunifications. Defra’s response to the petition makes it more urgent to save the single point of access. A genuinely independent, government-mandated central portal — free at the point of need — is the only solution that protects every pet owner equally.

Please sign and share — 9 days left, 77,000 signatures needed. 👇
🔗 https://t.co/vuTl8q5R6V

We need your help!

#MakeChipsCount #microchip
#PetTheftReform #ScanMe #animalwelfare #MicrochippingMatters #HumanAnimalBond @DefraGovUK @DannyVet @DrNeilHudson @APDAWG1 @Dr_Dan_1 @JaneFallon @PeterEgan6 @BrendaBlethyn @KatieAmess @rickygervais

[🐾THE DOG ARMY 🐾 @DogTheftCrisis]

@VetsGetScanning @CheckThatChip @SAMPAuk_ @PeterEgan6 @PetTheftUK @pettheftaware @millypod1 @MissingPetsGB @WaterhousePat @theFOALGroup @Animal_Watch @rosieDoc2 Over 24,000 now 🎉

https://t.co/nigeYyUy28

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘26 MAY 2026 #Lost Lola #ScanMe
NERVOUS Collie Cross Female
Kings Avenue #Carshalton #Surrey #SM5
Potential sightings around Belmont area reported
https://t.co/S4x0OyhgxV

[Rosie Doc @rosiedoc666]

#StolenDogHour

NIPPER STILL MISSING - believed to still be in area #ChippingNorton #OX7
2/4/26 owner asking to lookout 👀 in surrounding areas #Bruen #Lyneham #KinghamWay #ShiptonAscot #ChadlingtonWay pls call ASAP with sightings TY
MALE #Whippet
https://t.co/kEqNdVksCS

[MakeChipsCount to Reunite Pets @VetsGetScanning]

Twenty years ago I was reunited with my two stolen dogs, Widget and Gizmo 🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾.

After a traumatic 10 days I was reunited with my dogs because I had a famous father, Sir Bruce Forsyth. We were able to get national newspapers and TV attention. After our first live appearance on GMTV, appealing for help, a man called in saying he thought he had bought Wigdet at a livestock market in Southall, DogLost organised an animal warden to check the dog’s microchip number and it was Widget! The next day we did another appeal to find Gizmo and luckily enough a lady phoned up to say she had bought a dog of a man in Hayes Park, who looked like Gizmo. The animal warden went out again and it was Gizmo. If it hadn’t been for my father I don’t believe I would ever had got them back!

This was back in May 2006.

Twenty years ago, my family and I thought we could help other pet owners with missing/stolen dogs and started the Vets Get Scanning campaign.

I thought it was a simple fix 🤦🏼‍♀️

Dog Theft was a new phenomenon, I remember telling people in the pet industry that my dogs were stolen, only for them to laugh saying dogs aren’t stolen - they run off and get lost 😡.

Because I had experienced the complete cycle of car window being smashed and the dogs being sold on to unsuspecting new families, I could see there was a possible route to help others who were suffering the devastation that my family and I had just experienced.

Microchips were fairly new back then, mainly being used for the pet passport scheme, which is why our boys were chipped. I wondered if the veterinary profession thought that they could help reunite dogs that had been sold on by checking microchip registration at pets first treatment? There were only 2 microchip databases back then!

Today we have a fragmented microchip system with 25 independent databases in competition with each other, with incompatible logins and no joined-up access. Authorised users searching for a chip match, find the database and then the problems begin with most databases working 9-5 Monday to Friday, some databases have none GDPR call centres who can only take messages, some databases still relying on phone messaging or emails, the person with your lost dog or cat can wait days or even a week for a response from them. Animals go unidentified. Owners go without answers.

With the #PetTheftReform campaign highlighting the microchip problems the Government’s Pet Theft Taskforce recommended a Central microchip Portal, at last a solution to a growing problem.

DEFRA picked up the mantle and announced in March 2024 the fix with their Central Microchip Portal the single, publicly accountable system linking all 25 UK-compliant databases with one login for vets, wardens and police, providing instant 24/7 access to all microchip records, saving time and ensuring rapid reunifications.

Why was it dropped?

Still petitioning, still trying to get microchips reuniting missing pets!

PLEASE sign to save the UK microchip portal https://t.co/vuTl8q5R6V

#MakeChipsCount #ScanMe #PetAbduction #TheftByFinding #petition #doglover #catlovers

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘25 MAY 2026 #Lost Brecon #ScanMe
NERVOUS Golden Retriever Female
#Callanish #HS2 #IsleOfLewis
#WesternIsles #Scotland
Last seen on Tue 26th in the Pentland Road area.
Please help find Brecon- three children (plus the adults) desperately worried😢
https://t.co/CODpucnvM7

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘24 MAY 2026 #Lost Milk #ScanMe
Siberian Husky Male
Croxdene Avenue #Walsall #WS3 #WestMidlands
https://t.co/PdbGmAIrAu

[Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB]

SAGE MISSING TWO YEARS TODAY

SAGE has been #missing since Tuesday 3pm 28 May 2024

She ran off chasing something on her walk. From near FORNCETT ST PETER CHURCH NORFOLK.

Sage has not been seen since. Please contact asap if sighted/any information

[MakeChipsCount to Reunite Pets @VetsGetScanning]

HELP us SAVE the CENTRAL MICROCHIP PORTAL - You and your dog may be depending on a microchip system that works one day! The Government backtrack and our dogs and cats will suffer 🐾💔🐾 Please sign the petition to save the single login, linking the 25 UK databases, available 24/7 for vets, wardens and police - it’s a no brainer! WHY was it dropped!

PLEASE - SIGN - SHARE

https://t.co/vuTl8q5R6V

Petition closes on 5th June!

This little dog was microchipped and fully registered with up-to-date owner details — but the vet who scanned him didn’t have an account with that particular database, so couldn’t access the owner’s contact information directly.

The result? Inaccurate information was shared publicly stating Bo wasn’t microchipped or registered. The family spent hours in agony searching for their dog — not because the chip failed, but because the system failed.

Bo made it home safely. But this story shows exactly what happens when 25 databases can’t talk to each other. A vet, warden or rescuer shouldn’t need an account with the right database to reunite a pet with their family. A central portal would have resolved this in minutes.

“This wouldn’t have happened if there was the Government’s Central Microchip Portal.”

#MakeChipsCount #LostDog #LostCat #lost #REUNITED

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘26 MAY 2026 #Lost WILF #ScanMe
NERVOUS - NEW RESCUE - PLEASE DO NOT CALL, CHASE OR TRY TO CATCH
Rough Collie Male
Giffard Park #MiltonKeynes #MK14 5PT
#Buckinghamshire
https://t.co/c3VJraBUlY

[spaniel alert @rosieDoc2]

#SpanielHour RUFUS
Was taken from BRAXTED PARK FARM area #CO5 SILVER PICKUP TRUCK seen leaving scene at time of disappearance 6pm 31/5/26
Male pale yellow #Cockapoo
5k reward/finders fee for info leading to his safe return

https://t.co/uWRwQp20xI

[Lisa Clare Read 💙 @LisaClareRead2]

Dog & Cat owners,please can you sign the petition to help SAVE the Governments ONE central microchip portal to help reunite #missingpets that was promised 🙏
Only 22,368 signatures so far, please support.
✍️ ⬇️

https://t.co/thduGn4Q2Q

Thank you

#dogs #Caturday
#FridayVibes

[Focus On Animal Law @theFOALGroup]

As the weather looks promising for the bank holiday, please consider the welfare of your pets.
Do they benefit from being out in midday sun? 👎
Can you stand barefoot on the floor/sand? 👎
Do they need a day at the beach? 👎
Do they need to be in the conservatory/caravan?👎

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘16 MAY 2026 #Lost TILLY STILL MISSING #ScanMe
Portuguese Podengo Female
Behind 66 Picktree Lodge on the cycle track
Chester-le-Street, #CountyDurham #DH3
#ChesterLeStreet Last seen chasing a rabbit to cycle path. Wearing collar & ID TAG, MICROCHIPPED
https://t.co/dB4QCzBqon

[Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB]

🐕 #URGENT #ELDERLY #EPILEPTIC DYLAN #MISSING
Near woods near Fforest Farm Welsh wildlife centre #Cardigan #Pembrokeshire #SA43 #Wales since 19 May 2026
He is epileptic and on medication. Please share!

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘21 MAY 2026 #Lost Eli #ScanMe
Schnauzer: Minature Male
From garden at home #Glatton #Huntingdon #PE28 South #Cambridgeshire
https://t.co/tHWvJSBv0s

[MakeChipsCount to Reunite Pets @VetsGetScanning]

PUPPY COLAA #STOLEN: Our pup isn't fully vaccinated yet, so we don't let him walk on the ground. While I was helping my disabled mother-in-law get into the car, I set the black, pet travel bag and my phone down on the driver's seat for just a moment. In a matter of seconds, both were gone."

Taken from St. Barnabas Street, #Belgravia, #London, SW1W area on 21st May 2026.

Contact Police on 101 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 0800555111 with any information.

Or: 07766441114
(Scammer aware)

DogLost ID: 203321
Gender: Male
Breed: Toy #Poodle
Age: Young / #Puppy
Colour: light brown
Special Conditions: Friendly Dog
Microchip: Yes

Doglost website: https://t.co/xdl8NezXkM

The Pet Abduction Act became law in August 2024. Police and courts have more powers, offenders can receive a five year custodial sentence, a fine or both.

If you have the puppy please take to any vet clinic so that Colaa’s microchip registration can be checked.

#PetAbduction #PetTheftReform #DogTheft #MakeChipsCount #ScanMe #Dog

[chris towers @millypod1]

🆘21 MAY 2026 #Lost Blossom #ScanMe
ELDERLY Border Terrier Female #BTposse
Just off the path leading down to silvers pool on #CannockChase near the Rawnpike Oak #Rugeley #WS15 #Staffordshire
https://t.co/BYSTO8P5NO