Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 2004

Remember Arthur? (Click on links below that go to Pat's original Dog Log entries about Arthur, whose name is now Sammy.)

     Arthur's mom, Kathie, called yesterday asking that we have our vet give her vet permission to change the identification chip Kathie said we had had implanted in Arthur back in 2002 so that if Kathie ever loses Arthur, possible rescuers will know to contact Kathie's vet rather than our vet. I said I couldn't remember ever having put an identification chip in Arthur, but Kathie said it was in the paper work that came with the adoption.

     I told Kathie that I would look through our records and through everything Pat wrote about Arthur (see links below) to see what I could find. Apparently because Arthur was a digger, Pat had had our vet clinic implant an identification chip in case he should escape and run off, but Pat never wrote about it. (At least I can't find anything about Arthur's chip.) I'm not sure why, but I do know that Pat had tons of information stored in her own memory banks that we're all having to try to figure out as we go along.

     Anyway, I found it very interesting going back through Pat's Dog Log entries about Arthur, and I've provided you with the following links to make it easier to find these old entries. Please take a look at them if you have time and enjoy reading Pat's words again.

     (1) Arthur's rescue and arrival at Straydog on Memorial Day 2002;

     (2) Arthur is settling in nicely - 6/2/02;

     (3) Arthur needs and gets a companion - 6/9/02;

     (4) Arthur goes to the vet for a recheck - 6/11/02;

     (5) Arthur was adopted Saturday - 10/5/02.

     I told Kathie to go ahead and call our vet clinic and explain the situation and that if she needed me to give them permission to change the chip info, I would gladly do so.

Flash! at 12:30 p.m. ...

We found the records and documentation about how to change the contact information for Arthur's (Sammy's) microchip

     Now at half past noon Erin (who worked here till late last night and just now returned to Straydog) finds Arthur's records and hands them to me, and sure enough we did have a microchip implanted in Arthur by our local vet back in June 2002. The American Kennel Club's "Companion Animal Recovery" division (www.akccar.org) handles the information and the contacting of the owner of a lost and rescued dog who has the implanted microchip. I'll now mail all this documentation from Companion Animal Recovery to Kathie so she can have the contact information updated.

     Oh, how Straydog and I miss Pat!