Microchip your pets

A few dollars and your pet is protected -- maybe we should start micro chipping people too. (nb -- before too many people get upset the last comment was intended as subtle irony -- and I know, if you have to explain your jokes ...).

Missing dog returns home after 9 years

1,700 Km Journey

National Post
Friday, Jul 31, 2009

A flea-bitten dog rescued from a squalid backyard is to be reunited with her owners 1,700 kilometres away -- nine years after she disappeared.

The dog, Muffy, was found sleeping on a tattered piece of cardboard in a backyard in Melbourne with a bad skin condition and matted coat by the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals after an anonymous call.

RSPCA Victoria spokesman Tim Pilgrim said the terrier-cross was found to have been microchip-ped, which did not fit with the circumstances, so they decided to try to track down the dog's owners, whom they found in Brisbane.

"It's amazing that the original owners had microchipped her as it wasn't that common nine years ago, and it is amazing that she had come 2,000 km from home," Mr. Pilgrim said.

"We are advising people to get their pets microchipped so we can have some more happy endings like this one."

The owner, Natalie Lampard, said, "I just couldn't believe it, it's absolutely amazing. I told my daughter Chloe and she was just over the moon. She can't wait to see Muffy again."
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