Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
I disagree about this point - yes, it has been a week, but that is not necessarily a sign the person or people are not looking for her. This is summer, consider that her family may be on vacation and left her in someone else's care who was careless, or left her in someone's care who let her out thinking she or he was doing the right thing, but instead she thought, "This is not MY human - I must go find my real people, not this person!" ...
THIS, absolutely! Not every "lost" pet was lost by an irresponsible owner who isn't looking for him or her... sometimes stuff just happens.

Just a thought -- when they scanned for a microchip, did they scan the pet's ENTIRE body or just along the back/shoulder blades? And did they use a *newer* universal scanner? I have seen microchips end up in the most oddball places... down legs, on the belly, in front of the neck, etc. And if they are only using a scanner for the most popular brands of chips, it may not scan the chip at all.

Case in point... Nova has two microchips... one is an AKC brand chip (we are assuming) and the other is a HomeAgain chip. When the shelter took her in, their scanner did not pick up the AKC brand chip so they assumed she wasn't chipped and put another one in. When she went in for her spay, the vet clinic scanned her with their universal scanner and found two chips.