I have a Miniature Schnauzer Grey & White was last seen on Sander/ W Watson Rd area.He was wearing a black collor no name tag but it has a black transformer on it for his doggy door. He is dearly loved and missed.If yoiu have seen him or know of his where abouts please call 919-369-6692 or email agarris@jrgarris.com I just hope hes found before Christmas... agarris:
Do you have a picture you can post? If you don't know how, e-mail it to me at patanthony@gmail.com and I will post it for you. Have you made signs to post in the neighborhood? Also, you can post signs at Don Lee's Store, and the Food Lion on 210. I hope you find him soon.
Awww, what a cutie! Be sure to look for found dogs listed on Craigslist! http://raleigh.craigslist.org/pet/
LOST DOG PLEASE HELP WE HAVE STILL NOT FOUND OUR DOG( Miniature Schnauzer). I just feel that someone has picked him up, maybe off of W. Waston RD area.Just please call and return him. He is dearly loved and missed he is my sons best friend and it just breaks my heart everytime he calles his name.I just hope he makes it home before christmas. Please if you have seen him or know if anyone has him please call 919-818-2110 or 919-369-6692 or email me at agarris@jrgarris.com..... We really need your help!
If you haven't already done so, check with the Johnston County Animal Shelter off Brightleaf between Smithfield and Selma. Take US 70 West towards Selma. Turn right on 301. It is about a 1/4 mile down, on the left behind the furniture store (look for the water tower). Phone 919-934-8474. And when you get your dog back, be sure to get him microchipped. I wish you good luck.
Hope this little doggy is found. Microchipping is okay, has it's drawbacks though. The best thing is a tatoo.
All 4 of my dogs wear tags and are chipped - and 2 have tattoos. I see NO drawbacks with microchips - none whatsoever - A) your registration is forever, B)it costs nothing to update your address should you move; C)your phone number changes, or adding lines ie-work and cell can be done in a matter of minutes;D) your vet info and/or any medical conditions your pet may have that might require medications can be updated easily; E)and if you are on vacation and your pet gets lost, you can call AFTER the fact and give an additional phone number(s). Additionally, IF a pet is picked up by Animal Control, many jurisdictions have AC officers who carry scanners, if not, animal shelters have scanners. Protocol in almost every shelter in the US calls for a pet being scanned ONCE when it is first brought into the shelter, AGAIN when it stays the required amount of days and is about to be put up for adoption/sent to a rescue group and AGAIN BEFORE it is euthanized. There are MANY shelters that now utilize a scanner that is attached to a doorway - when the animal passes through the entry, the scanner will detect a chip and sound an alert. A microchip is a FAILSAFE for a dog or cat NOT being put down - An animal can not be put down if it has a chip UNLESS the owner has been contacted and gives written permission for it to be euthanized. Vets will scan an animal FREE of charge - if someone finds an animal and brings it to a veterinary hospital - scanning is done as a COURTESY. So what's the drawback of a chip? Tattoos - on the other hand (keep in mind 2 of my dogs have ink) DO have drawbacks. #1 - MOST dogs are tattooed on their inner thigh/groin area. A hairy dog can have their tattoo become almost invisable if they are not kept trimmed in that area. Even if you trim them frequently, if the dog is missing for a couple of weeks, that hair can easily grow back. #2 - with the tattoo in that area, there are a good many dogs who will NOT go belly up for a stranger to see a tattoo. #3 Tattoos fade or blur with age - on my one dog who has had one for 9 years, you might have to really look close to make out those numbers, should you find him and look under up to 6" of hair, should he be in full coat at the time. #4 - what number do you have tattooed? Your phone number? What if you move? Your social security number - ooops identity theft. . .A made up set of numbers? And the person that finds your dog and locates the tattoo, how do they know where to call? There are a NUMBER of registries for tattoo numbers. . .I'll bet the average person would be hard pressed to figure out how they find the owner of this animal.
How painful must that have been, in either location, ear or inner thigh, compared to the quick injection of a microchip??
When my baby girl was missing, the flyers i put up everywhere eventually did the trick, have you tried that yet and be sure you put them at all the local vet offices - good luck, i truly hope you find your baby.
Actually, racing greyhounds originally had tattoos on their ear like the dog in the photo has - and thieves would cut their ear off to get rid of the tat - claiming the ear was ripped off during a fight. Then, they started tattooing inside their lip - again WHO would look inside a dog's lip? Unless they were specifically looking at a greyhound and KNEW about the tats. . .. My dogs have floppy ears down and they are HAIRY - you would likely never see a tat inside their ear. http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-care-for-a-dog8.htm
The microchip could possibly move out of position. My vet checks the position every year for our dogs. I've never had one move on any of my dogs but have heard that this could be a possibility and has been known to happen. Other situation would be like what happened to my sister, microchip was placed in her Chocolate Lab as a pup, a couple of years later he went missing, she found him at the pound and asked why they didn't contact her when his chip was checked, they said that the chip was not registered in the database and that she'd have to have him microchipped again. Don't get me wrong, I'm for microchipping and mine have it, just have heard that tatoo is a better system.
No need to be defensive, there are drawbacks to everything in life. I have mine microchipped as well as tags and can say that I've never lost a pet in my life. We take every measure to keep ours in the yard, not to say it can't happen. As I stated, I've heard that tatooing was a better method but as with anything everyone, even professionals have an opinion. Boils down to the owners choice which they use. If I've taken your above quote wrong and you weren't being defensive, please except my humble apology I was going on what I've heard from several vets, thus the happy face
The kids and I were looking for this little dog on Saturday? Are you the one who spoke to the ROTC kid cleaning the road.? What was the dogs name again? We willkeep looking.....
I'm not being defensive - just want the information out there. In your first post you stated m-chips have their drawbacks - you didn't cite any, just stated that there were. Can a microchip move? YES BUT only a small percentage of them do. Vets/Shelters/Animal Control Officers/and rescues are AWARE of this, which is why the scanning pattern used is a sweeping over the dogs entire body, not just the right shoulder. I have my chips checked yearly as you do - just because I'm a bit anal when it comes to my critters. The door-type scanners that many shelters are installing would pick up a chip any where on the body of any sized pet. As far as the registration mixup your sister went through - ss The reason this CAN happen is because different procedures MAY be used - ie: a shelter may chip animals while they are up for adoption - the chip they implant is registered to the shelter, so if the animal gets lost it can be returned to the shelter. WHEN the animal gets adopted, SOME shelters take the adopters info and do the update for the new owner - OTHER shelters provide the new owner with the phone number/online info/paperwork and instruct the new owner to transfer the registration to themselves. If one gets their pet chipped at their vets office, it can work either way, depending on what the vet's office manager has chosen as their policy. If your pet gets chipped at an event such as fundraisers for animals - by a vet/tech - either - the price included everything - the chip/registration etc OR the chip was implanted for 10.00 - 20.00 at the event and the owner has to send in 15.00 as a registration fee, along with their contact info to register the pet. -- this is often done because of the dozens - if not hundreds of animals that may be chipped at event - would require a lot of paperwork on the part of whomever volunteered the chip implanting for the fundraiser. When you register your pet, your paperwork tells you that you should receive a confirmation within a month or 6 weeks (it's been a 5 years since I've registered anyone here) and that if you do not, you need to contact them. No, nothing is perfect, but I would bet a months pay that if you contacted 25 veterinary offices in the US and asked which method they recommend, 20 or more will say microchipping. If you contacted 25 shelters in the US and asked them, all 25 would say microchipping. I worked for SPCA Wake - more than one animal crossed the threshold chipped and were returned to their owners within hours, rather than days, or not at all. BTW - there - at the SPCA and other shelters I've worked with over the years, there is NO protocol for looking for tattoos. Again, I am not trying to be defensive, belligerent, or anything else for that matter - Animals, are literally my life. There is nothing I wouldn't do in order to keep my pets safe and prevent loosing them. Their health, happiness and general well-being, is way way up on my list of life's priorities. My posting negative aspects of tattooing was/is not intended to 'shoot you down' (as I mentioned - 2 of mine are tattooed as well as chipped) however, after over 15 years working/volunteering in shelters and with rescues, I would not be able, in good conscience, to state to someone who might be depending on the info on this board in order to make a decision on what is the best form of ID for their pet, to say both methods are equal.
I think the dog's name may be "Tank" - that was the filename on the picture she sent me to post. Sure hope the dog turns up, safe & sound!
