Lost SoCal dog turns up in .... Idaho? Let's hear it again for the humble microchip
She went missing from her Lancaster home about a month ago and headed east. She turned up this week 800
miles away -- in Boise, Idaho.The dog was found -- thin, but otherwise healthy -- by Kari Ravert, a customer service manager at the Idaho Humane Society. The owner, Rita Kircher, a Lancaster mom of five, almost didn't answer her phone when Ravert called on Tuesday. "I don't know anyone in Idaho," she said.
From IdahoStatesman.com:
Ravert asked Kircher if she had a dog named Diva. "She was shocked that her dog was in Boise," Ravert said.Diva, shown in the photo above provided by the Idaho Humane Society, had been staying with a friend when the family was moving to a new home and somehow got loose on Dec. 20. The family looked "everywhere" for the 2-year-old German shepherd mix, who belonged to Kircher's son, Tyler, 15, according to the Idaho Statesman article.
.... "She does get out of the yard, but she doesn't go far," Kircher said. "She's always wound up right back in the front yard.
They checked the local shelter, but the dog never turned up.
Fast forward to this week and some 800 miles away. Ravert was driving her minivan in South Boise when she noticed a dog wandering through the fog in traffic at around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
"I stopped, pulled my passenger door open, and she jumped in. One of the kids at the bus stop closed the door," Ravert told reporter Katy Moeller.
There was no collar, but Ravert took the dog to a shelter to scan for a microchip.
The Idaho Humane Society is assisting the Kircher family in getting the dog home.
How the dog got from California to Idaho is still a mystery.
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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
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Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
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