Our only hope to get Teddy back home is that he is scanned and his microchip registration is checked on his original microchip database. That’s the only way we will find him! Was he kept by a finder (Theft By Finding) or was he sold on to an unsuspecting new family.
“Did you know that when a vet (or anyone with a microchip scanner) checks your pets microchip...all it gives them in return is a number (unless they have one of the Halo scanners which will also flag if a pet is registered lost or stolen).
Thousands of pets walk through the door of vet practices and rescue kennels across the country every week...how many are scanned? How many have their chip numbers checked against the databases to find out if that pet is listed missing or stolen? The answer...very few.
Teddy and many other long-term missing pets, could have walked into a vets in the seven years he's been missing, and nobody would ever have known it was him...even the person holding his lead.
It needs to stop. Microchips are a wonderful invention but they are not being used for what they were intended.
Take a moment to sign this petition...I know petitions like it have popped up many times over the years, trust me, I've signed every one that's been shown to me. But perhaps this time we can make something happen.
Maybe this time #FernsLaw can bring some of our lost family members home.
#FernsLaw petition: to make sure all new pets taken to the veterinary practice with an owner have their microchip registration checked, to help sold on and kept missing pets get home! Something we all assume is already happening:- http://chng.it/Zt48N9qbgZ
TEDDY HAS BEEN MISSING SEVEN YEARS
Male Inuit Grey And White (Age: Young Adult)
Missing from Larkhill Salisbury Plain. Approximately 2 miles north of Larkhill Racecourse, SP4 area, South West on Wednesday, 15th August 2012
He was 18 months old.
CONTACT: 07929858977 or 07512989923
Doglost Page:- https://www.doglost.co.uk/dog-blog.php?dogId=42164
On Facebook:- https://www.facebook.com/MissingDogTeddy/
When you next take your pet to the vet, ask to have their chip checked! Make sure your details are up to date and make sure you know where that chip is located, microchips tend to move from the space between the shoulder blades where they are originally implanted (I have one whose microchip is close to his elbow, and another whose microchip is almost all the way around the front of his chest).