[doganjo]

I case you missed this in the dogs section - http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=29647.0

www.findmissingangel.co.uk

'Angel's Army' will look for her till she is found.  However long it takes.  She and her owner, Dawn, have a  lot of friends.

[doganjo]

Dawn was on radio yesterday, it is now 7 weeks since Angel was taken away from her Mum - this clip is on fro another 6 days and her section is at 1 hour and 44 minutes onwards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013fq9q

[pheonix]

there are so many missing dogs on facebook, its heartbreaking. maybe microchips should have a tracking device in them aswell (our wheeliebin has one)

[doganjo]

If vets receiving a new client would automatically check the dog had a chip and align that with the new owners details the existing chip system would work fine!  There is a petition online to that effect.

[pheonix]

we always used to walk to town with our dogs as kids and tie them up outside the shops - we wouldnt risk it nowadays. even leaving the dogs in the car is worrying.

[deepinthewoods]

there was a discussion on radio cornwall about this, saying that some crooks have microchip readers and just find the chip, then dig it out.

[Fowgill Farm]

The star letters in this weeks farmers weekly are about this, one about Angel and another form hampshire constabulary so it is getting good publicity. 
mandy

[doganjo]

The star letters in this weeks farmers weekly are about this, one about Angel and another form hampshire constabulary so it is getting good publicity. 
mandy

Brilliant, I've posted this on Dawn's Facebook page for Angel.

[pheonix]

there was a discussion on radio cornwall about this, saying that some crooks have microchip readers and just find the chip, then dig it out.

i expect that to be very possible. we can feel some of our pets microchips under skin - infact once i thought my dog had a grass seed splinter in her when it was infact her microchip.

[Herdygirl]

It does make you wonder if it's worth going to the expense of having pets microchipped 

[pheonix]

It does make you wonder if it's worth going to the expense of having pets microchipped 

we lost our dog at the beach once and found him 3 days later at the dogs home 30 miles away. we were fined £70 before they would release him but he did get a free microchip.  i had foned the police to report him missing and they said they didnt have him but infact he had spent the night in their kennels before being transferred to the dogs home. we also got a strict telling off from the dogs warden for not claiming him sooner.
the ironic thng was he went to the vets at 8 weeks old for his microchip but the vet had said wait til hes bigger, and then we forgot to take him back again.

[in the hills]

The vet told us to wait until our pups second vaccination at 10 weeks old so that she was a bit bigger before chipping.

[doganjo]

Defra now expect all vets to microchip 8 week old puppies in breeds where they can be docked.  Many of my breed are worked and many breeders prefer to have them docked.  DEFRA demands that docked dogs are identified in this way.

This is exactly why I have bobtails and will continue to breed them.  I cannot dock, living in Scotland, and I do not like the idea of a baby pup having a chip inserted at that age.  There are many instance of migration.

My pups are seen by my vet before the 5th day, an identifying photograph taken, and a letter from him sent to the Kennel Club, where they are recorded on the register as bobtails.

Angel is still missing - please keep watching out for her, she could be anywhere - even where you are.  Her tail may have been amputated to try to disguise her s it was very distinctive (half white, half liver)- a traumatic operation in an adult dog.

[the great composto]

Crikey that got a big splash on p7 in the daily mail today

[Fowgill Farm]

Half page in this months Sporting Gun too, OH's copy came yesterday so plenty of coverage. Hope it yields results
mandy