04/07/2018
One of our clients had this happen also. They had a Yorky who was just under two years old when it ended up missing out of their backyard. Eight years later, they get a call from their vet that they had scan this dog that was brought in in terrible shape with a damaged Eye and it came back to being their‘s. They immediately rush down to their vet to pick Roxie up and have her treated there. They ended up removing the damaged I and her good I she was mostly blind in. Unfortunately, last week the housekeeper who is quite old but they didn’t want to let her go because they’ve had her for 23 years accidentally left the door open and Roxy who was partially blind fell into the pool and drowned. They’d only had her back for less than a year.
Microchips do work but I still always recommend people put collars with current tags on their dogs. I don’t have a chip reader now but I often stop to pick up dogs that are wandering around and it takes me a long time (hours if not days where I also have to enlist a friend to kennel them in her pet grooming shop) to find their homes if I ever do when they don’t have a collar. One thing about microchips, you need to make sure you register them and update their information every time you move. I have ran into several dogs that have microchips but when you call the chip company, they have not been registered or updated and no way to locate the owner. I’m thinking about buying a microchip scanner even though it doesn’t generate me any business or money and are expensive . Maybe I’ll start a go fund me page for that.
Watch that door!
