Another goal-line technology, a microchipped football, was developed by Adidas and German firm Cairos Technologies.
The authorities in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia state, call the microchipped T-shirts "intelligent uniforms".
The animal had been microchipped, but had recently been sold at market and the chip had not been updated.
The one that died was microchipped, but had recently been sold at market and the chip had not been updated.
Most of the 16, 000 dogs looked after by the trust each year had not been microchipped, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"If Horace had not been microchipped it would have been extremely unlikely that owner and pet would ever have met again, " he added.
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Welsh Environment Minister John Griffiths said last December that he was considering introducing legislation requiring all dogs in Wales to be microchipped.
In Wales The charity also issued 15, 020 owners with welfare improvement advice, rescued and collected 21, 394 animals, microchipped 855 and rehomed 2008 pets.
Ministers are expected to say that every newborn puppy should be microchipped to make it easier to trace and prosecute owners of violent dogs.
Any owner whose dog is found without a chip and can be traced by local authorities will have a short period of time to have the dog microchipped.
Owner Jimmy Wicks said legally bought crocodiles had to be microchipped.
"Have dogs microchipped or tattooed through the National Dog Registry, " PETA says on its website, pointing out that unidentified animals can fall into the wrong hands.
Following a question by opposition spokesman Lord Grantchester on the timetable for bringing in the changes, Lord Taylor said they would be announced "very shortly" and said that 58% of dogs were already microchipped.
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