I vote for staying with the new owner. I do not know the past owner's situation, but it does seem to me they waited too long before they came forward. If we adopt our current rescue, we plan to have a collar, and get a tatoo in his ear.
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I vote for staying with the new owner. I do not know the past owner's situation, but it does seem to me they waited too long before they came forward. If we adopt our current rescue, we plan to have a collar, and get a tatoo in his ear.
Nebo has a microchip. I think it was around $35 to put it in, but I'm sure it varies in price. They insert it between the shoulder blades with a needle...I believe it is around the size of a grain of rice. I'm sure it hurts a little bit, but it's no big deal...it's over fast, they don't put the animals out or anything.Quote:
Originally posted by Nomilynn
All this stuff has really got me thinking. My cats are indoors all the time, but I travel with them to the USA and across the border. I'm wondering if microchips are a good idea? How much do they cost? Does it hurt the animal? Any info would be helpful :)
I feel bad for the original owners of the dog, but I also think they are stupid. If my dog was missing for even 2 hours I would call every shelter in the area. I don't know how they could go that long without even putting up signs or calling shelters....the "snake bite" thing is a pretty lame excuse. It's their own fault, the dog should have had tags, and not been running loose.
I don't know anymore, I am not sure either way is always rights. It is sad, and hurts all the parties involved. I hope the older man comes to learn this, and does right by the pet.
Here's a different and terrible slant to what can happen if your dog gets away..... This happened in my own town. :(
Posted Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 3:01 am
Jeanne Brooks
Losing Truman: three days and one possible subpoena later
On a Friday night, not too long ago, JF Lucas called to his dog.
Lucas -- JF is his full given name -- was standing outside Simpsonville's animal control kennel. It was after hours, Dec. 12. The gates were closed.
But a dog knows its owner's voice, just as an owner knows his dog's bark. Soon as he called, Lucas says, Truman started barking excitedly.
There, in the cold and dark, Lucas felt reassured. His dog was found.
But that was already Day Two.
So if you ask the Greenville Humane Society, Truman's fate was set in Simpsonville.
By city ordinance, animals picked up in Simpsonville are kept at the city's kennel for just three days.
On Saturday, Dec. 13, about 10 a.m., Lucas and his daughter McKenzie, 3, went to the kennel to get Truman back. The gates were open, but no one was around.
They saw their 7-year-old part yellow lab/part golden retriever behind a fence and walked over to him.
McKenzie asked her four-legged friend, "Truman, you coming home?"
Lucas says, "If I'd known then what I know now, I would have jumped that fence and got my dog out."
Instead, he drove to the police department to find the animal control officer. But Simpsonville's animal control officer works Monday through Friday.
Another officer took Lucas' name and telephone number and said she'd leave a message. Lucas and McKenzie left expecting to retrieve Truman on Monday.
But Saturday was Day Three.
Simpsonville Chief of Police Charles Reece says his officer took Truman to The Greenville Humane Society around 9 a.m. Monday.
On Monday afternoon, Lucas left work early to go get his dog.
At the kennel, the animal control officer explained the three-day policy. She never received any message, she said. She told Lucas that Truman already had been put down.
A very upset Lucas then drove to the Humane Society. "I just couldn't believe they would euthanize such a friendly, beautiful dog in less than four hours," he says.
He asked to see his dead dog.
Lucas says the staff told him to come back the next day, which he did, arriving 10 minutes before the shelter opened -- but two hours after a sanitation department truck. Truman was gone.
Judy Outlaw, the society's director, says she doesn't know the exact sequence of events, but finding Truman at that point would have been difficult in any case.
"Typically, (the owner) would have to have a picture," she says.
When he couldn't see his dog, Lucas wanted to see a written record of what time Truman was delivered to the Humane Society shelter, what time the dog was euthanized and why.
For that, he was told, he'd have to get a subpoena.
Outlaw says it's simply Humane Society policy not to release information without a subpoena.
Lucas called a lawyer.
So here's where things stand. Reece says what happened was a shame and that Simpsonville has changed the days it delivers animals to the Humane Society.
Outlaw says every municipality ought to keep animals for the same number of days, preferably five. And owners ought to tag their pets.
As for Lucas, he says after two weeks any record can be altered.
And, "If my dog was adopted, that's wonderful, he's not dead. Somebody got a great dog."
Jeanne Brooks' column appears on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. She can be reached at (864) 298-4261.
Oh Logan what a sad story. :(
I adopted Pooka from the Orange Country Animal Regulation Control when I was 17. She was spayed, vaccinated and I had tages and a chip in her.
When I was 19 Pooka would like to sit outside on the porch (gated, would be tresspassing) to enjoy the sun. One day I came home in the morning and Pooka was not on the porch. My mom said that she let her out and then she was gone. There is no way she could have gotten out. Her collar was left on the porch and you could see someone had taken it off. She was stolen. I didn't have a car but I took a whole week off work (my dog was missing, I didn't care!) and took the bus each day of that week to look for Pooka. On the weekend I went to a far away shelter and looked there also. No Pooka! I posted flyers and filled out a lost pet tag at the shelter. I checked with local chihuahua rescues. Nothing! She was gone.
The next week our neighbors chihuahua was also stolen right from their backyard. The puppy was a purebred dog they were going to use to breed to their other long coated chihuahua. This dog was a Valentines Day present to my neighbors wife. Again, another dog stolen. This was when the Taco Bell adds started to hit TV. And coincedently Pooka looked JUST LIKE the Taco Bell dog.
I am STILL looking for Pooka. In Orange Country we didn't have shelters who had a microchip gun, but I don't know if it has changed since then. The one vet I did get her microchipped by never had a chi brought in. I contacted every vet, every petstore etc! I went to Sherlock Bones even! He is a man who posts flyers and info about your pet in a 45 mile radius of where the pet disapeared. They also go door to door for a I think, 25 mile radius of your home. I combed the streets everyday for my dog. I only hope whoever took or found her is caring for her and if she is dead she died peacefully. I still look online at rescue sites etc for her and a friend of mine goes to the shelter every weekend to see if she is there. I still have not given up. This dog was my life! She was an eldery dog, 12 years old. She had arthritus and needed medication. She was abused and I rescued her. She was so in love with me and me her. I taught her so many tricks. How to sit pretty, dance etc. She was so smart. :) :(
Sometimes even a chip doesn't help get them back. This story
was in today's paper;
http://www.indystar.com/print/articl...-9706-009.html
Plainfield is a small community about 15 miles SW of Indy.
I agree with you Twisterdog!
Besides, the old owners ASSUMED their dog was dead! If my dog went missing, I'd be calling all the shelters in my area every day, no.. EVERY HOUR!.. besides looking on my own.
Buck should stay with the old man.
There have been no updates on Buckley's story in the paper, but I got this reply from the RSPCA giving its side of the story. (Microchipping isn't compulsory in Australia, I didn't know that. But then again, our cats' microchip information is kept by a volunteer organisation, so I guess it's not a government priority :()
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Thank you for your letter regarding ‘Buckley’.
This particular case highlights some very significant issues that are important in being a responsible pet owner.
The first issue is the need to Register your animal. Not only is it a legal requirement for pets to be registered and wear identification, but the tag will assist in the return of a pet in the event that it does find itself in a Pound or Shelter. Unfortunately ‘Buckley’ was not registered and was not wearing any tag.
The RSPCA has continued to maintain pressure on Government to make microchipping on all pet dogs and cats compulsory. Every animal that is adopted from the RSPCA is now microchipped. Just prior to Christmas, we were able to reunite a family and their dog which had been missing for over 12 months because it had been microchipped. A dog in England was reunited with its owners after five years. Although not a legal requirement at this stage, it is a security measure for being a responsible owner. ‘Buckley’ was scanned at the Shelter, but she had not been microchipped.
Another important point is not to leave it for a day or two to see if your animal turns up of it’s own accord. It could be sitting in the Pound or Shelter waiting to be reclaimed. The Wangaratta Shelter was the nearest one to where the dog was picked up by the Council Ranger.
We urge people to contact their local Pound or Shelter to see if their animal is there. Sometimes telephone descriptions can be quite vague and the animal may be hard to recognize from the details supplied. ‘Buckley’s’ owner did not telephone the Shelter until the Monday afternoon of the 23 December. ‘Buckley’ had been adopted in the morning of that day.
Under legislation, all animal shelters and pounds are required to hold unregistered lost or stray animals for eight days before being available for adoption. ‘Buckley’ was received on the 13 December and adopted on the 23 December.
The Wangaratta Shelter did publicise in the Wangaratta Chronicle on the Friday 20 December that a Kelpie Cross Female, six months was being held in the Pound. Buckley is, in contrast, said to be 18 months old.
One of the many hard line decisions the RSPCA must sometimes make is to euthanase an animal because it has not been adopted. We are always very pleased when our Shelters are able to rehouse an animal, as was the Wangaratta shelter in this case.
The RSPCA has and will continue to promote responsible pet ownership and management. Thank you for taking the time and effort to write to us. We will take the opportunity to review the way we work, to ensure that the cause of animal welfare is advanced in the best way possible.