Happy Ending

A little lesson in protecting your pet and why you should get your dog microchipped.

This past March, Mary Lou, a woman who fosters for our group, All Dog Rescue, took in a 9 year old pit bull who she started calling Marta.  She's a sweet dog, but unfortunately there were no applications coming in.  Finally last week, an application came in and Mary Lou set up a meet and greet for Saturday.  And then, on Thursday, we got a voicemail from a woman claiming Marta was her dog.

Turns out, Marta, whose given name is Lexus, was stolen from her owners in July 2010.  They'd searched for her to no avail and pretty much gave up.  Then this past week they were on Petfinder.com looking for a new dog and came across Marta's listing.  So they called and after some fact checking, Mary Lou made arrangements for Lexus to go home.

Lexus' owners hadn't microchipped her. If they had, when she was taken in by animal control, they would have scanned her and gotten her home.  But since she came to our group, she's chipped now and will always be able to get back home.

Mary Lou did a great job and was able to get the local news to cover the story.  Here's the video from when Lexus was reunited with her family.