Patent ID: 8037846

Claim:
A method for tracking animals, comprising: receiving a group of animals; entering information relating to the group of animals into a computer system; entering into the computer system an identification of each animal from a physical identifier for the animal enabling the computer system to identify each animal and distinguish each animal from every other animal in a group; entering into the computer system animal data relating to individual animals and correlating the animal data with an identification of the individual animals in the computer system; entering into the computer system location data for identified individual animals for a location or locations occupied by the identified individual animals; correlating in the computer system the location data for each identified individual animal with the identified individual animal's identification; filtering confidential information from data entered into the computer system, wherein the confidential information includes at least one previous location identifier; and allowing a user to review a filtered record for an identified individual animal that includes a present location identifier for a present location of the identified individual animal and that the identified individual animal occupied at least one previous location without disclosing the at least one previous location identifier.