3yr. old in HIGH KILL SHELTER IN CA.

Cindy said:
I know my vet checks Gavin's chip every time they see him for his yearly. the low cost vaccination clinic does the same everytime I take him there. So I know his still 'shows up' when scanned. but I know they can migrate.
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Next vet visit, I'm having my guys scanned to be sure.
 
few interesting phenomena I am learning. Apparently there is such thing as "rescue wanna be", people who have good hearts but do not know what they doing, not approved by parent org or licensed in state and as such do not carry any weight and no one wants to deal with them.
By no means I am pointing any fingers. But in general it seems to be good idea to check on a shelter/ rescue one deals with, I kinda naively thought that they all equal and once they get involved things fly:no:
another thing- knowing your local laws makes a big difference so while I am not big fan of laws, we do need few Common Sense rules spread to each state regarding animal treatments. One dog at a time will make difference:yes:
 
I could see one of those crazy folks that have a gazillion pets living in horrible conditions claiming to be a rescue :eek2:

Sounds like things are on track and hopefully now that they have located the chip he can be reunited with a loving family that is hunting him still.
 
SheepOfBlue said:
I could see one of those crazy folks that have a gazillion pets living in horrible conditions claiming to be a rescue :eek2:

Sounds like things are on track and hopefully now that they have located the chip he can be reunited with a loving family that is hunting him still.
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Don't know about that. the rescue people seem to think it was the dog's own family who turned him into the shelter claiming he as a stray. Not sure how they know that, but so sad if that is true.
 
dmeyer123 said:
Don't know about that. the rescue people seem to think it was the dog's own family who turned him into the shelter claiming he as a stray. Not sure how they know that, but so sad if that is true.
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Never can tell there is a couple missing here that is 1000% not because the owners did not look. They would be elated and the pup so spoiled if found even after a long period (I seem to recall successful find stories of a year missing also).
 
SheepOfBlue said:
Never can tell there is a couple missing here that is 1000% not because the owners did not look. They would be elated and the pup so spoiled if found even after a long period (I seem to recall successful find stories of a year missing also).
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Well, that really would be a happy ending.
 
SheepOfBlue said:
Never can tell there is a couple missing here that is 1000% not because the owners did not look. They would be elated and the pup so spoiled if found even after a long period (I seem to recall successful find stories of a year missing also).
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We have one here now a beagle that came from another rescue group in Ga. What's this? A mircochip! registered to a private party there. NO documentation that anyone ever found it or followed up on it. So he is on a mircochip hold for 3 days so we can follow up. I need to treat him for HW if not reclaimed. So I'm patiencely waiting. Had another one last year from Ohio, microchip found, called owner. Owner was looking for over a year for the dog. Sent him back to his owner in Ohio. Why was this not picked up earlier who knows? Some rescue org are better then others, training ,staff. Some have better scanners.

I personally have an older scanner that can read all chips except AVID. I can tell if an AVID chip is there I just can't get the number or info. Truthfully chips rarely migrate so far that you can't find them. Trick is technique, go semi slow in a pattern across the neck, shoulders, back and then down each front leg. Takes less than 15 secs. I have seen techs waving the scanner around like they were swatting flies and then they wonder why they can't find the chip. Also, most importantly- keep new batteries in the scanner!! A scanner with weak batteries will NOT work right and miss many chips. Trust me I have put in chips everyday for years and I always scan first and then implant and then scan. If the batteries are getting old it is hard to pick up the chip even in the package.

My cat is almost 17yrs old. Put a chip in him at 4 months and I can still pick it up everytime on the first pass. Mircochips work. People just need to look for them and owners need to keep their info up to date.:yes:

Oh and Sheep, yes there are a lot of crazy people who called themselves rescues but are really horders. Not to be confused with the many of excellent rescues(breed and all breed) and humane org. around the US.
 
OntarioSheltie said:
Any news on Whiskey? They seem to have removed the post on the Southland sheltie rescue FB group.
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I noticed that, too and e-mailed my rescue contact for info. I also noticed that the info on Whiskey that the shelter puts up is that he is 8 years old not 3. I wonder if that's something they can tell by his microchip? He's still listed as adoptable by the shelter???? I'm confused...:confused2: Hopefully I'll hear back from the rescue.
 
Good job on the pup from Ohio JusticeMom. That is my point. While it is likely a looser what if it is not. When I was little some !#$!#$!#@%!@%#$ stole our St Bernard, to this day I get glee from knowing that when they tried to steal another he was not nice like ours and tore them up real good. Without opening wounds I can think of a couple of folks here that if they got the call their pup was 500 miles away they would be starting the car within the hour to go get the pup.

Either way it sounds like Whiskey is on the way to better life :cool:
 
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