Scan a dog's nose on any smartphone. In under a minute: vaccination status, sterilisation record, prior treatments, owner contact. Works on strays, pets, and ABC-programme dogs alike — no RFID scanner required.
A stray rushed in after a road accident. A dog that bit someone — owner claims it's vaccinated. A pet whose booklet is at home, or missing, or filled in by a different vet three cities ago. Without a way to identify the dog independently, you're working blind.
Microchip scanners cost ₹8,000–₹25,000, require a chip that most Indian dogs don't have, and read only a number — not a history. Paper booklets are forgeable, loseable, and single-clinic. Muzzl solves the identification problem differently: it uses the dog's nose print — unique, permanent, readable by any smartphone — to retrieve a shared, network-wide record the moment the dog enters your clinic.
"Of the roughly 62 million stray dogs in India, fewer than 1% carry any form of verifiable ID. For most, the vet clinic is the first and only point of contact with the formal system."
Open the Muzzl app. Hold the phone about 30 cm from the dog's face and record a 10-second nose video. The app extracts a biometric template from the nose-print pattern — unique to each dog, stable across its lifetime — and queries the national database. Results in under a minute.
If the dog is in the network — registered by a community feeder, an ABC shelter, or a previous clinic — its full profile appears: name, registration date, sterilisation status, vaccination history, and any treatment notes logged by anyone in the Muzzl network. If it's not registered, you create its profile on the spot. Every subsequent vet, feeder, or shelter that encounters this dog will now have something to work with.
Scan the nose. If it's in the Muzzl network — registered by a feeder, shelter, or previous clinic — its full profile appears: name, location, vaccination status, prior treatments. If it's not registered, create its profile now. The next person who encounters this dog will have something to work with.
Scan the nose. Anti-rabies vaccination status is a named field in the Muzzl profile, with the date and administering clinic recorded. Confirm status in seconds — without relying on a paper booklet that may not exist, may have been left at home, or may not reflect the latest booster.
Scan the nose. If the dog was registered under the ABC programme, sterilisation status and date are in the profile — logged by the shelter or field team that did the procedure. No guesswork. No unnecessary pre-surgical workup.
A dog's Muzzl profile is built collaboratively — every vet clinic, shelter, and feeder in the network adds to the same record. You see everything logged by anyone who treated or registered the dog before you.
Permanent nose-print ID — the same for the dog's entire lifetime. Can't be lost, faded, or removed.
Status, date of last vaccination, and administering clinic. Updated each time a booster is given.
Yes/No, date of procedure, and which shelter or vet performed it. Cross-referenced with ABC programme records.
Who registered the dog (feeder, shelter, vet), when, and where. Shows the dog's geographic history.
Free-form treatment log from any clinic in the network. Injuries, medications, procedures — all timestamped.
If the dog is a pet, the owner's contact details are linked. Strays show feeder or shelter as the point of contact.
How does nose-print ID compare to microchips and ear tags? →
"India has roughly 20,000 rabies deaths a year — 36% of the global total. Most could be prevented if vaccination status were verifiable at the point of care."
Android 8.0+ or iOS 14+. The phone at your reception desk is all you need. No scanner to buy, no software to install beyond the Muzzl app.
A short nose video. No sedation, no restraint beyond standard handling. Results in under a minute.
Records from feeders, shelters, and other clinics are all visible on the same scan. One dog, one record, accessible to everyone who treats it.
Anti-rabies and other vaccinations are logged against the dog's biometric ID — not a paper booklet that can be forged or forgotten at home.
Data stored and shared per India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Used only for dog identity verification within the Muzzl network.
Dogs registered under municipal ABC programmes are flagged — sterilisation status, vaccination date, and originating shelter all visible from the same scan.
Joining the Pune early access programme. Free to partner. No hardware to buy. The phone you already have is enough.