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Curly has been found! She was dropped off at the Downey Animal
Shelter by an anonymous Good Samaritan! We are very glad and grateful
to have her back. She's a bit traumatized but happy to be back home.
Please keep your eye out for Curly, a dog who is nearly 20 years old, deaf and has very poor vision. She walks with an "odd gait," the owner said, because she's had a stroke.
Her owners live in the 100 block of South Prospect Avenue in Redondo Beach and she's been missing since last night (Monday, Feb. 21). Fliers have been posted around the neighborhood.From the owner:
She does not have her collar but is microchipped. She was last seen
on South Prospect Ave. about 1/2 block north of Torrance Blvd. Her
vet is Dr. Christina Hutson at Animal Hospital of Redondo Beach.
Let's get this baby home!
Call Carla at 310-849-3295.
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.
CHICAGO - No one knows how a tabby cat named Charles traveled the 1,300 miles from his New Mexico home to Chicago, but he's set for a complimentary flight home on American Airlines in a carrier donated by an Albuquerque business.
Wow, what a great story out of L.A. Animal Services. (And thanks to Border Collies in Need for alerting us to it -- Lily, the lost border we posted about yesterday, still hasn't been found. But this story should give the owners hope.)
She was found nearly 1,700 miles away from home in a Los Angeles neighborhood and was set to board a plane at LAX early this morning for her return home.It's a mystery how she managed to get (to L.A.). Fortunately, a Good Samaritan brought her into the North Central Animal Care Center. While just a little thin, she was in good health and happy to be in off the street.Staff at North Central (near Dodger Stadium) scanned the beautiful, furry pup for a microchip and came back with a number. After a little research, staff made a quick phone call to her owner in North Dakota and heard a flood of relief from a voice half way across the nation."Bonnie's owner, an Airman and his wife, were thrilled to learn that Home Again would reimburse the airfare for the trip back to the base, calling it a miracle that she was found safe and sound. A supervisor quickly stepped forward, located a carrier, and arranged the flight through Home Again -- springing for the upfront costs from his own pocket."Microchips ensure happy tails," said L.A. Animal Services Intereim General Manager Kathy Davis. "Reuiniting a pet with their owner only takes a quick scan and a phone call."
As to how she got so far away from home? "Some think she took a wrong turn while headed for the Iditarod," one animal servicses staffer said.
Now, we just need to find Lily.
Hoping to reduce the number of animals the city has to euthanize, a Los Angeles City Council panel approved a plan Monday that would require that microchips be implanted in all dogs and cats recovered by owners from city shelters.
Under the proposal approved by the council's Public Safety Committee, pets picked up by animal service workers and later reclaimed at a shelter will be automatically fitted with a microchip.
"We hope that this will help us prevent having to euthanize an animal if it gets lost again," said Linda Barth, deputy director of the department.
Owners will be charged $15 for the service, a discount compared with what owners pay when they bring their pets in for microchipping.
Barth said the money will cover the basic cost of the chip and the service, and includes registration of the animal.
"We aren't looking to make any money off this," Barth said. "The goal is to get pets back to their owners."
The SPCA-LA will host a low-cost vaccination and microchip clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the South Bay Pet Adoption Center, 12910 Yukon Ave., Hawthorne.
The clinic offers rabies vaccinations for cats and dogs ($5); DHPP vaccinations for dogs ($15); bordetella vaccinations for dogs ($10); FVRCP and leukemia vaccinations for cats ($15 each); and microchipping for cats and dogs ($25).
Visit the web site for more information.
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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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