We see every thing under the sun at my work, it’s a large two hospital Veterinary Emergency Clinic. Us as Tech’s are always preparing for the worst, Murphy’s Law is quoted quite often on the floor but last night was a shocker!!
This hyper and adorable 20week old Doberman came in because he was hit by a car. After the X-rays were taken we could see a small fracture and the heart and lungs and a Microchip. All of these are normal to see on a X-ray of a puppy who was hit by a car. So the Doctor goes into the room and shares the findings with the owner and she tells them the only problem we see is the broken leg and she starts to point out everything the X-ray provided an image of including the microchip, The owner said “the what?”
The doctor said “the microchip, do you know what it is for?"
They had no clue and it was then discovered that they just bought the puppy 2 weeks ago and did not get any papers or anything for it from guy in the newspaper.
We scanned the puppy and called the company at 1:15am!!!!! They were open!!!!!
We found out that this puppy had a different name and owner. So at 1:30am our Doctor calls the owner from the numbers provided by the microchip company. When we heard her ask for the owner named on the account then asked if they had a Doberman puppy and finding out that it was stolen one month ago made our mouths drop and sent chills up our spines!!!! They lived 2 miles from the hospital and 4 miles from the family who “adopted the puppy”. How crazy is this?
? To make a long story short a police report was filed and an investigation is opened.
This puppy was stolen from an enclosed patio in a fenced yard!!!!
After this I had my work order Microchips for my whole family and I will be telling EVERYONE I know to use it!!!
We are also going to change our protocol at work and scan every animal that comes in where as before we would only scan stray animals.
So please be safe!!!! I will now!!!!
