What the search covers
A search finds:- flags other rescues have raised that are active and shared with the network;
- your own rescue’s flags, whatever their status or visibility.
What you can search by
Results appear as you type.
One kind of identifier is used at a time. If you fill in more than one, a microchip number is used first; failing that, the email and phone (a flag matching either is found); failing that, the name. To check a person by name as well as by email, search twice.
Searching by name
A flag about a person is matched by name on the Also known as its rescue gave, or, when there is none, on the first and last name together. A prefix or suffix is not part of it. When you open the search from a person’s record, Name / alias is filled with their name as the record shows it, including any prefix or suffix, and Subject is set to person. If the name has a prefix or suffix, remove it from the box before you read the results. A name match is only as good as a name. Two people can share one, and one person can be flagged under an alias: check a match against the other details before you act on it.Searching by microchip
A flag about an animal can only be found by its microchip number. The search does not look at an animal’s name, species, breed or color, so an animal flag filed without a chip number will not be found. When you open the search from an animal’s record, Microchip number is filled with its chip and Subject is set to animal.Your privacy, and theirs
What you type is not added to the page’s address, so it does not end up in your browser history or in a link you share. Email, phone and microchip numbers are compared in a scrambled form: a search can confirm a value you already have, and never reveals one you do not. See what is shared.What a match shows
Matching flags are listed in a table, newest first.
When nothing matches, the page says No matches found. That is the expected result for most lookups. A search that finds nothing looks the same whether the person has no flags or a detail was mistyped, so check what you typed.
Registered to a rescue
A microchip search also looks for rescues that publish their animals’ chip numbers. A match is shown above the flags, under Registered to a rescue, and is not a flag: it is a rescue saying the animal is, or was, theirs. Each registration shows the animal’s name and species, and whether it is in the care of that rescue or was previously with them. It shows the rescue’s found-animal contact, or No found-animal contact listed. Reach them through their public page. When the chip’s maker is known, a line names it and offers a lookup with the maker or through the AAHA Universal Pet Microchip Lookup, for when the rescue cannot be reached. When there is a registration but no flag, the flags table says No safety flags. Your own rescue’s chips are published, or not, under Settings → Operations & forms → Microchip registry.During an application
RescueConsole does not search the registry by itself when an application arrives. The check is part of the review:- On a form submission that is linked to a person, the Follow-up card lists Search the Public Registry among the checks to make before deciding. With Change on People, Add a task puts it on the applicant’s record as a task, and with See on Registry, Open the registry search opens this page, empty, for you to search.
- On the applicant’s person record, Search the Public Registry opens this page with their name filled in.