This little kitten is quite the traveler. My friend from Sunday School, Andrea, found her on a shipment of lumber that had recently arrived from Arkansas. She may have travelled as much as 600 miles, tucked into a pallet of lumber on an 18-wheeler. We assume that she, her siblings and her mother had made [...]
“My cat doesn’t need a microchip. She never goes outside.” “My dog doesn’t need a microchip. He’s always with me.” Willow is a beautiful tortoise-shell-colored cat who never, ever went outside. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Until the contractors working on the Squires family home left a door [...]
This may be the quickest example of a microchip getting a pet back to his home since I’ve been scanning for chips. Our regular client brought this dog in for an examination, heartworm test, stool test and vaccinations because he had been hanging around a construction site for about six weeks. Now, in my experience, [...]
Your dog is lost. Now what do you do? If you live in a cell-phone commercial your dog is quickly found in the food court at the airport. If you live in Canada and travel via Detroit it may be a different story. Josiah Allen took a trip to Mexico and planned to come home [...]
Microchips must be registered. Otherwise they are worthless bits of glass and metal. We faced the sad situation today of good Samaritans who brought in a dog slightly injured by an automobile, but with no resources (or willingness?) to pay for his care. We scanned him for a microchip and, voila!, he had one! We [...]
I got these two letters in the electronic mail from a mother who obviously knows how to rear a terrific and caring child. You surely recall the story of Brindle, discovered lost and nearly dying by little eight year old Tristan. Here is an update to the ongoing story of Brindle’s recovery. TRISTAN’S MOTHER’S FIRST NOTE Dr [...]
Kristi called with a question while I was away from the clinic. She needed help finding a Rabies tag number for a patient no longer in our computer system. “Sure, that’s easy. What’s the tag number?” I said, and she gave me the number. “Something’s not right,” I replied. “That’s only a four-digit number.” “I’m [...]
You thought your dog didn’t need a microchip! After ten years, you thought you’d never seen your dog again. For ten years you’ve known that the microchip was there. Even if Brindle was found deceased somewhere, why didn’t someone scan him for a microchip and let us know he wasn’t coming home? Alas, this story [...]
“Fluffy is having her ovariohysterectomy, spay, surgery today, Mrs. Jones, and this would be a perfect time to proceed with the AVID microchip we discussed during her puppy vaccination series. Would you like for Dr. Randolph to put that in today while Fluffy is anesthetized?” “I’ve thought it over since we first talked and I’ve [...]
Rut’s show-dog story happened before microchips were in widespread use, as was the case when this next tale occurred. The Youngs were travelling in a Class A motorhome across the panhandle of Florida with their two cats, Toby and Alley. An automobile swerved in front of them, forcing them off the road. The RV flipped [...]
Dopey the cat is back with his family. Thanks to his microchip. In Sacramento, CA, the Lane-Mills family lost track of their beloved cat in 2003. After years passed they assumed he had been hit by a car, though no body was ever found. Somehow Dopey lived forty miles away in Winters, CA, for six [...]
The lady burst through the front door with the most beautiful Cocker Spaniel I’d ever seen. He was black and shiny, had a clean coat that was perfectly coiffed and a two-foot-long tongue hanging out of a happy mouth. Oddly, I didn’t recognize either the dog or the lady. Just then, she spoke. “Do you [...]
Over the weekend one of our employees had a baby. 32 weeks. Praise God both mom and son are fine, but we had planned for her to be out much later in the year. My, my, there are always challenges to running a small business. All that, though, is offset by the joy we have [...]
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