Comments on: Lost Dog Returned Just in Time for Christmas

By: Zashkaser

Zashkaser — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:58:50 +0000

WOW! Good thing you kept your wits enough to fight off the bugger. Glad you’re ok. The worse thing to happen to me on that street was when I encountered a pack of dogs late one night. I kept a safe distance behind them until I got home. Take care.

By: CrazyCanine

CrazyCanine — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:45:52 +0000

Sharon, people who ‘find’ dogs and cats and decide to keep them are more commonly called thieves. If you find a car with the keys in it parked on your drive you would think there was something funny going on not just keep the car! With dogs I think that ‘Pedigree Breed Syndrome’ affects some finders, they see a nice looking dog and must think ‘aw it has been dumped, lets keep it!’ They then never call the council or police and years later the dog and owner may be reunited if it has escaped or as in this case it is found through its microchip. As the same has happened with your cat, then there must also be a syndrome called ‘Feline Breed Syndrome Disorder’. My mums cat disappeared and returned a couple of months later wearing a collar and tag of its new owner…nice one, not!

By: Sharon Walker

Sharon Walker — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:21:21 +0000

What a happy ending for this family!
l also think it should be promoted and compulsary for all vets to check for a micro-chip on all newly registered pets!!
l lost a cat who was chipped and it took a whole 12 months for me to get him back. Someone had found him and decided to keep him themselves, they registered him at thier vets without any checks for a chip. Lucky for me he was lost again and someone else took him to a vet’s to be taken to a rescue centre, the vet scanned him and l was contacted and able to go pick him up. l found the people who had been keeping him after l saw a ‘lost’ poster of my cat and they admitted it never crossed thier minds to get him checked for a chip when they originally took him in and thier vet never suggested it or asked any details about where they got him etc etc….
lf all vets scanned new patients many lost/stolen pets could be quickly re-united with thier families. l also agree that ALL pets should be permanently identified either by micro-chip or tattoo as tags and collars (my cat had both on when he disappeared) can so easily be lost or removed.

By: CrazyCanine

CrazyCanine — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:40 +0000

Nice result, it is great to see a positive outcome because the people responsible for dealing with stray dogs know what they are doing. A few years ago round where I live two dogs were found by the local Dog Warden Service, both had microchips, one had been stolen in a burglary three years previously. When the owners were contacted though, they did not want it back, this does not make a positive story promoting responsible dog ownership when the owners do not want their dog back! The other one had been stolen and bought in a pub ‘off a bloke for £50′, unfortunately the owners when contacted had given the dog to another person who had moved out of the area. The microchip details had not been amended so there was no way of tracing the owner. Well done Hounslow Animal Warden Team keep up the good work. Not sure why http://www.doglost.co.uk is telling councils that they need to scan dogs they seize, perhaps they think that dog wardens do not bother checking dogs for forms of identification? They should instead lobby for all people who find dogs to contact the local council where the dog is found to enable it to be checked for ID by people who work with dogs and have a statuttory duty to deal with them….Dog Wardens.

By: Dave the Dog

Dave the Dog — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:07:45 +0000

Well done the Animal Wardens! Nice to see Local Authority staff getting the kudos for a change, instead of others.