Cat Found 5 Years, 1,800 Miles and One Microchip Later

[drunkfish3]

http://well.blogs.ny...icrochip-later/

 

[Tall Paul]

I heard about this on the radio yesturday. Wow what a crazy story.

Paul

 

[broblues]

They need to put in an RF chip with gps capabilities in it. Then you could find her with your phone, in far less than 5 years. :whistling:

 

[Josh]

They need to put in an RF chip with gps capabilities in it. Then you could find her with your phone, in far less than 5 years. :whistling:

But how would you power it? Change your cat's batteries every week?

 

[4cbln3]

I lost my dog for 5 years too, a Lhasa Apso, this was in 2000. He climbed the chicken wire and squeezed between the wrought iron gates and although he had a microchip, no one ever turned him in nor took him to the vet, but someone kept him for a couple of years. He was good with kids and would listen to me when I snapped my fingers. We moved away but kept our main phone number active and the Humane Society found him as a field stray one city over (about 5 miles).

He had different habits since whoever kept him in a kennel never let him out to exercise so we had to slowly break him of this. He lived another 5 years with us and another dog we adopted from my SIL. Just last year I put him to sleep and have his ashes on the shelf inside our home.

Chewee finally came home.

 

[Shibumi]

Good story. We've reunited owners, due to micro chipping, at all the hospitals I've worked at. Never like this though.