Why the chip update belongs at the top of the moving list
More dogs slip out during a house move than in an ordinary week: doors stand open for furniture, fences at the new place have gaps nobody has spotted, and familiar walking routes vanish. If your dog gets loose in an unfamiliar neighbourhood while her chip still points to your old address and a landline you no longer own, the reunion slows to a crawl. Updating the register is a ten-minute job that protects her precisely during the riskiest fortnight of her year, so schedule it with the utilities and the mail redirection, not as an afterthought.
Make the edit before the boxes are taped, or just after
Contact the register named on your dog's chip paperwork, or identify it through a vet scan if the paperwork is buried in a box, which during a move it often is. Replace the address with the new one in full, including postcode, and use the same session to refresh your mobile number and email, since moves and number changes travel together. If you have a moving date but no completion certainty, wait until the address is legally yours, then update on moving day itself; an address you never occupy is no better than the old one. Keep the confirmation email somewhere you can find it offline.
Verify the record from a finder's point of view
Ask for written confirmation, log back in to view the record, and at the first vet visit in your new area ask them to scan the chip and read back what the register returns. Register the family with that new local vet in the same visit if you have moved away from your old practice, and have your previous clinic forward her history. Check a second pet's record in the same pass, because household chips were usually registered on the same day with the same now-stale details.
Cover the new home's weak points in the same week
The chip is the safety net, not the fence. Walk the new garden boundary at dog height looking for gaps under gates and loose panels before she explores off lead, update her collar tag if it carries an address, and tell new neighbours she exists and where she lives, since the first finder of an escaped dog is usually three doors down. Keep her routine, bed, and feeding spots familiar amid the boxes, and walk the immediate streets on lead so she learns the local map and you learn its hazards, main roads, unfenced ponds, and the park gate that swings.
Keep every route back to you consistent
Finish by aligning the rest of her identity trail with the new address: vet, insurer if you hold a policy, boarder, walker, and any local registration. Mismatched records, chip saying one address, tag saying another, waste a finder's time and goodwill. On her collar, KinsLe Verified QR ID Pet Profiles add a second, instant route home for your dog, because anyone who finds her can scan the code and reach her profile and you without waiting for a vet or warden to scan the chip.