Heartbroken 16 year old!!!

[Faster horses]

What a relief.

I am so happy your story had a happy ending!

[Denny]

Let my daughter run him over my dog has'nt left the yard in 2 months but she's now walking on all 4 legs.She even jumped on me this morning for a pet.

[Jessie]

Glad to hear the good news. I think Mike had a good idea about the collar. Maybe that would help.

[Kato]

So glad to hear you got him back.

I work at a vet clinic, and we see this pretty much every day. People see a dog by the road, and assume it's lost. They pick it up, then drop it off at the next town. We've returned lots of them to their owners, but not all. The best one we had was a dog that followed his owner's tractor to town, lost track of it, went to the local gas station, and while a tourist was filling his truck with gas, jumped IN to his camper and rode off! They stopped at the next town and left the dog at a gas station there. The second gas station called the first one, they called us, and we just happened to have had a call from the owners saying they'd lost their dog! We told them they should change his name to Lucky.

All dogs (and cats too) would benefit by having a tattoo or a microchip. I can't count how many times a tattoo has returned animals we've ended up with. We also have to do the duty of the town pound, and house strays, so we see lots of them. Right now we have two dogs and about twelve cats. One cat in particular has a little pink collar with a bell, and is obviously someone's pet, but there is no other i.d. on it, and we've had it for almost two weeks. They just don't know to call us, even though we put ads out all the time. Someone somewhere is missing their pet too, and we just can't find them. Very frustrating.

I would recommend a tag with your phone number and the dogs name on it. I've even seen small metal cylinders that attach to a collar, and can hold a piece of paper with a note on it. Don't know where you buy them, but if he had a note saying "I live here, I'm not lost. Don't pick me up" it may help.

[Faster horses]

When the Corgi's were disappearing from my daughters county in Wyoming, one was returned that had a chip in place. Someone took the dog to the vet in Minnesota and the vet just happened to run a check and found the chip. Two dogs were missing from the same home in Wyoming. The female showed up at a local filling station, after being gone several days. The other was the one that the Minnesoa vet found.

Don't remember the whole story, but Kato's post about the chip brought this much back.

Our daughter never did get her Corgi back.

[carole3218]