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Pet Microchip Reunites Lost Dog 1,260 Miles Away From Home
Pet Microchip Reunites Lost Dog 1,260 Miles Away From Home
Lost pooch travels from San Diego, CA to Federal Way,
WA, and is reunited with help from microchip.
July 7, 2004
On Tuesday June 30, the King County Animal Services Shelter
(Seattle Washington) left a phone message at the Seymour home
in San Diego that Dharma their lost dog was found. About sixteen
months ago Dharma went missing from the family yard. The beloved
pooch was found roaming the streets of Federal Way last week
near Seattle Washington. With a scan for a microchip, an AVID
FriendChip™ was found through Avid’s Recovery Network, PETtrac™.
The Seymour Family was revealed as the owner.
"This obviously shows the value of pet microchip identification,"
said Al Dams, an administrator for King County Animal Services,
“We hope this nice story will be a reminder to all pet owners
to have your pet licensed and microchipped. This reunion occurred
because the microchip provider had the correct and updated
information in the system. We believe in the use of microchips
for pets because, as with Dharma, it may provide the needed
phone call to get them home.”
Losing Dharma was almost unbearable to the Seymour family.
Three years ago the Seymour family adopted the Lab-Samoyed
mix puppy. “When she became missing we searched all of the
local shelters, we created posters, we looked everywhere and
we were broken hearted not to have her at home. Everyone understoond
the pain that our children Laura and Joseph were going through,
but Dennis and I were also terribly hurt by the loss. We all
viewed Dharma is a member of our family. When we adopted Darma
everyone in the family fell in love and she became our third
child.” Daughter Laura chose the name, but son Joseph became
the big brother and protector of this new family member. Dharma
and Joseph were together most of the time and Dharma even
slept each evening on Joseph’s bed.
The family has been overjoyed with the return of Dharma,
but overwhelmed is the word used to describe the support of
all of the people who have been involved in the process of
the family being reunited. According to Peggy Russell-Seymour
“AVID ID Systems invented the pet microchip technology and
developed the FriendChip™ microchip that Dharma has implanted
and the recovery system PETtrac™ that brought her home. The
FriendChip™ and PETtrac™ systems saved Dharma.”
The Seymour family learned first-hand the value of United
States Standard pet microchipping through their local community;
The San Diego County Department of Animal Services and the
California and San Diego Veterinary Medical Association have
one of the most successful and aggressive microchipping programs
in the nation. “Microchipping pets is one of the most important
steps pet owners can take to help us stop the unnecessary
euthanasia of animals,” according to Pauline White, Executive
Director of San Diego Veterinary Medical Association.
While this story is encouraging, a similar story had a very
negative outcome last month as Banfield Pet Hospital has been
microchipping pets with a non
standard (ISO) chip. A puppy in Virginia was euthanized
because there was not a well established recovery system in
place. Banfield Pet Hospital has stopped marketing the ISO
pet microchip.
About AVID ID Systems, The Microchip Company
Based in Norco California, AVID ID Systems is the inventor
of pet microchip technology. To date Avid has microchipped
over 9 million pets in the United States using the United
States Standard 125 MHz frequency. Avid PETtrac™ System fields
an average of over 8 thousand calls a week, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week and reunites thousands of lost pets with their
families throughout the United States.
Source: PRWeb
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