Low-cost Pet Microchipping Event in West Hartford - June 26th, 2008
June 19th, 2008 categories: Pets & People
Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary and Planet Bark in West Hartford are hosting a special low-cost microchipping event on June 26th. Normally about $45, microchipping at this event will cost only $25.
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Why should you microchip? If your pets are anything like mine, they escape every now and again.
There was the one time I chased my dog Willy through West Hartford Center waving a piece of turkey and calling to him in my happiest voice.
And Obie escapes his pet fence so regularly the neighbors have me on speed dial. “Hi. I just spotted your dog in my yard. Come and get him.”
The experience that has stayed with me the most involved the dog I had as a young girl,Eric, a German Shepherd. Eric was a wanderer - he liked to escape his fenced in area and roam the neighborhood. One day, he didn’t come back.
While he was gone, I prayed every night for his return and my Dad drove around for weeks. My mother called every dog pound in the area but no one claimed to have seen him. We thought he was gone forever.
Several months after his disappearance, my father drove by a house he had driven by hundreds of times before. This time, however, there was a German Shepherd out front. My father decided to pull over and called Eric’s name. The dog perked his ears up and started to wag his tail. And if you know German Shepherds at all, you know they’re not likely to do this with a stranger.
It turns out that Eric was picked up by an animal control officer in a neighboring town who sold my dog to his friend. This friend had Eric for months, always keeping him in the back yard. That day, the day my dad happened to drive by, the friend was packing up to move to Maine. For some reason, he decided to put the dog out front on his last day in Connecticut.
My father took Eric home that day and we made sure he never escaped again. He slept on my little twin bed with me every night for the rest of his life and I am so thankful he was returned.
I firmly believe that it was divine intervention that made my father drive by that house, that day and that made the man tie Eric to the tree in his front yard.
Eric was essentially stolen so microchipping probably wouldn’t have helped return him. But if you have pets and want to help ensure they are returned to you, think about microchipping.
