Posted on 12/05/2004 1:36:21 AM PST by ambrose
Dog wrongly adopted out returns home
Last Updated Dec 3 2004 02:19 PM MST
Calgary – A dog at the centre of an adoption controversy is being returned to his original owners.
Zack, a four-year-old yellow lab, was adopted out from the Calgary Humane Society in November, even though his owners had called looking for him.
And the family that adopted him initially refused to give him back.
Friday, the humane society said the new family decided to return Zack.
"It renews my faith in human kind and man kind and the quality of people that are out there," owner Holly Ruby said. "I just hope they can find another animal that doesn't belong to another family already, that will help fill their needs as a family."
After a newspaper reported on the mix-up, the humane society was inundated with calls from people angry that the adopted family wouldn't give Zack back, and that he hadn't been properly tagged. They were also upset that the humane society wouldn't make the family give Zack back.
The Rubys, who live near Balzac, lost Zack Nov. 11, and he was picked up by the municipality as a stray later the same day.
Because the dog didn't have a licence or any traceable tags, the humane society wasn't able to contact the Rubys, spokeswoman Cheryl Wallach said.
However, the family called the humane society to check whether Zack had been brought in – and was told there wasn't a dog matching his description.
"Different information was provided by the owner and the information we had," Wallach said.
On Nov. 16, Zack was adopted out. The Rubys realized he had been taken to the humane society after they spoke to the MD of Rocky View office.
Ruby says Zack is now micro-chipped and registered.
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Mine are tattooed on their bellies with my SS number.
It's traceable from anywhere without special equipment.
One phone call to any SS office would do it.
[plus the tattoo clinic gives a tag with an 800 number that connects to their records database]
[and no "mark of the beasts" jokes, please]....;)
love happy endings like this.. loser is the couple that had to give up a nice pet to return to rightful owners. wonder how expensive the microchip procedure is?
About $40
Thanks for the Doggie Ping!
Here's a cute little true dog story:
Sickroom, shaggy style -- John C. Sounders, Jr., M.D.
While making a house call, I was greeted in the yard by a large, friendly collie. He followed me to the door and, when the patient's wife opened it, pushed in ahead of me.
No sooner had we entered the sickroom than the dog jumped on the bed and began licking the patient's face. This show of affection was all right except that I had to examine the man and the dog kept getting in the way.
It wasn't long before I began to get a bit irritated. I wanted to ask the man to get his confounded pet off the bed, but I hesitated to offend such an indulgent dog lover.
After I'd completed the visit and was halfway down the front walk, I heard a sharp rapping on the window. It was the patient;s wife. "Doctor," she shouted, "you forgot your dog!"
LOL.... Cindy had the same thing happen with a visiting plumber at her house!
Yikes! Can you say stolen identity?!
We are holding a discount microchipping day this Saturday and we are charging $A25.00 (which is about $US18.00).
If people ring up looking for their lost pet that isn't chipped our policy is to invite the owner to come down and look at the dogs/cats we have here; quite often how one person descbes a dog or cat is not how we would describe it (breed etc). We have to hold animals for a minimum of 7 days before we put the dog/cat up for sale.
We will hold a dog for as long as it takes to get them a new home. Our adoption rate is quite good.
I never thought about using a permanent marker during a tornado warning and I live in tornado alley. Even though I take him with me to the closet when there's a tornado nearby, it still makes sense to use the marker.
Thanks for the idea!
My dogs will not let strangers near them and can run 40 mph.
It'd be really hard to read my # at that speed.
Besides, there's nothing that important in my name.
Getting them -home- is what's important.
If dealing with fixing "identity theft" is the price I'd have to pay for that, then so be it.
It's worth it to me.
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