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Homer Escaped!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:30:37 PM

Homer has always been a "powerful animal". In his youth, he could leap over fences. He is an 80 lb. German Shepherd Ridgeback mix. In his old age, 15 years old, he no longer does that but he was able to escape our yard by forcing the wooden gate door open which was latched. He was strong enough to push the bottom of the door enough to get through despite being 80 lbs. and having arthritis. He had never done this in the year that we have had the fence. His name tag had been lost and we didn't replace it. I felt broken. Part of the reason I think he left was that I spooked him because I was angry. I felt so awful and feared the worst. I was afraid he wasn't coming back because he had never been gone for more than a night. He was gone a total of 5 nights and each night I wondered if there was more I should do. If there was something I could have done differently. I wish the last time I saw him wasn't him being in fear of me. I didn't think he could survive the cold and rain of Oregon in January. So...

My Tiny Little Baby Is Found

Found Pets Home — Monday, January 23, 2012 9:23:22 PM

This little guy is 4 lbs. and he is so sweet. I would guess he had been found and then got away from them, as it happened to me. But either way he was found about 20 miles from my home. I am so amazed, and so very thankful for the man who turned him to the clinic to be checked for a microchip. It is totally awesome!

Chuck Comes Home

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 21, 2012 2:59:35 PM

Chuck was lost from out vet's office which is off a very busy road. He was missing from Wednesday evening until Saturday afternoon. He was only spotted once on Thursday morning. Friday night a wonderful person heard a noise in the shed, it was dark so she didn't go in the shed. Saturday morning, she's walking the dogs and Chuck comes out from the shed. He followed her into the house, she was taking him to the shelter to see if he had a chip. She called her vet. Her vet had the HomeAgain alert and so I was called. She brought my baby home thanks to the HomeAgain alert!

Found Our Family Pet After A Year!

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 20, 2012 2:12:56 PM

Our dog escaped from our fenced yard on January 8, 2011. We had just moved to San Antonio and didn't realize she was able to get out of our fence. I checked all the local shelters weekly for nearly three months and post her picture everywhere. Today I received a call more than a year later that Nala was found thanks to her HomeAgain microchip. I will forever be grateful to HomeAgain for helping find our family pet. My children were so excited when we brought her home. Thank you HomeAgain and to the angel that turned her into a local pet hospital.

Peachie Is Back Home!

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 20, 2012 11:42:51 AM

This story is written with deep gratitude to HomeAgain and tribute to the work they do. On September 30, 2006, my husband went out the back door to his truck, Peachie squeezed out behind him without his knowledge. He came right back in and she was left out. I had just filled the sink for her bath and removed her collar, she was lying next to our old Lab. I could not find her in the house and asked my husband where she was. We just had a new drive and patio poured and our fence was down. So when Peachie slipped out unknown to my husband, she was on her own. She stepped to the curb, a kind man saw her by the street, he stopped picked her up and went to my neighbors who were not home. On his way to our house, a slender man in a silver SUV had been watching. This man came from his car to the kind man who was walking to my house and demanded her and said she was his. He lied. He snatched her from the kind man, threw her in his car, made a U-turn and took off with Peachie. We had photo signs up, ove...

God's Handy Work

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 20, 2012 12:38:42 AM

Our Yorkie was taken over 13 months ago from our outside kennel during the night. We've prayed and prayed for him to get loose from who had him and/or to be scanned, the microchip read, and him to be returned to his family. On Tuesday, January 17, 2012, we received a phone call from a woman in Cincinnati, Ohio area who had our Yorkie dropped off at her home after he was seen running the street in which she lives. The person thought it was one of her Yorkies who had gotten out. She knew it wasn't her dog so she scanned him to see if he had a microchip and contacted HomeAgain to see if this dog was reported missing, in which he was. She works for an animal rescue center and just so happened to have a scanner with her from the previous day of being at one of the pounds she works with in her area. She got our contact information and called our home phone and explained the whole story of how she had Reese and made plans with us that night to meet and pick him up. God answered our prayers and we now have thi...

Our Baby Found!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:46:29 AM

Unfortunately, our little buddy snuck right out without anyone knowing he was gone, until someone said "Where's Buddy?" Two hours into our search, I got a phone call from a vet hospital. Some extremely kind man had found Buddy and turned him in. The microchip saved us! Without it, we probably would have still been searching! Thank you HomeAgain!

Dog Found Loose at Vet Clinic

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:47:31 PM

The Friday before Christmas Eve, my husband and I traveled to Tampa, Florida with one of our own dogs to visit a veterinary specialty clinic. As we were leaving a dog came running towards our car. Thankfully he approached me readily when I called and stayed with me while my husband got a leash out of the car. He was not wearing a collar. I took the dog into the clinic where they scanned him for a microchip. Thankfully one was present and the information was current. By the time we ended our hour and a half drive home he had been reunited with his owner.

My Rescue Baby!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:49:59 AM

I purchased Sienna from a man who was mistreating her. She weighed 35 lbs. and had been living on a chain in his backyard. She is a sweetheart. He did warn me that she would run if given the chance. I am a child care provider, and people are in and out of my home a lot. Sienna took the opportunity to leave with one of them. I had not realized that she was gone when I got a call from HomeAgain, telling me that Sienna had been found! I am not sure how long she was gone, less than an hour for sure, but she had been found on Main Street, during the rush hour. This great young man cornered her and took her home. I am so grateful to this young man and to HomeAgain for finding, and returning my Sienna!

Long Lost Cat

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:15:34 AM

My cat has been microchipped with HomeAgain since we got her and I couldn't have gotten more confident that it was the right choice from my experience. About 4 years ago in the spring, we started spotting a small cat in our yard. Our cat Sizzle is the Queen of her domain and doesn't take kindly to any other cats strolling into our yard, so she would chase the poor thing away every time. We continued to see the cat periodically throughout the summer and other neighbors reported seeing it as well. Finally, one Saturday morning in early October around 6 a.m., I had this sense that I should look outside for the cat. It had been gotten quite cold that night and I was becoming concerned that it might be lost. I looked out into our backyard, and the poor little thing was curled up tightly in a ball for warmth, asleep on one of the paver steps leading from our patio. I grabbed a handful of Sizzle's food and ran out to try to catch her. She was only a kitten, dirty and thin and bones. When she saw me come o...

My Lost Gucci

Found Pets Home — Monday, January 09, 2012 7:00:33 PM

Gucci went missing January 6th, when my daughter let him out in the back yard to play and to do his thing. When we looked outside for his return, there was not Gucci. We looked all night and the next day but there was no sign of him. So I quickly called HomeAgain and the representative was very helpful, giving me information on what they are going to do and what I needed to do. She was very helpful and patient because I was working and trying to up load pictures of him, but again, I can't stress how patient she was. I placed flyers in my area and for some reason someone kept taking them down. So I went to the Lord and prayed about Gucci and his safe return home. Monday, four days later I received a call from Banfield in Georgetown, Texas and they stated that Gucci was found! A wonderful lady named Trish brought him in to get checked. They checked for a microchip, which he had and I’m grateful that he did. He was well taking care of and in good health. Thanks to HomeAgain and Miss Trish, that Gucci was found! ...

JD the Wandering Walker Hound

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 06, 2012 6:45:29 PM

My son's Walker Hound was accidentally let out by a friend - he got on a scent and was gone! Although he is not a working hunting dog, he still loves to follow a scent. After 7 days and some very cold nights, I received a call from a wonderful lady who said she had JD! She had received a call from a neighbor that a dog, who had been sleeping on her porch, was now headed her way. She went out and called to him and he came right to her. She took him to her vet, and there was quite a bit of cheering when they found a microchip! She took him home, called me and arranged for me to pick him up. When I got there, he was curled up in a bed in her living room, freshly bathed. She had taken several pictures and had already told her husband if no owner could be found, they would keep him since he was too sweet to turn out! He is now home, with new ID tags, and my son is planning to purchase a tracking GPS collar for him as well. Thank goodness for his HomeAgain microchip!

The Wanderer

Found Pets Home — Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:14:24 PM

Jake is an indoor/outdoorcat that went missing on December 28th. Eight days and nearly 4 miles away from home, he was found. He had traveled through some heavily wooded areas and across a well traveled main road. I am very thankful to the kind person who found and took him to a vet to see if he was microchipped. HomeAgain made a reunion with my cat possible.

Our Missy Returned

Found Pets Home — Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:19:48 AM

We recently adopted our little Yorkie. She had her dog license, a tag with our information, and a HomeAgain tag. Somehow she got out of our yard on December 14th and went across the street to the park. We looked and looked but couldn't find her. I handed out over 200 flyers. I put a flyer in PetsMart and the clerk said she saw my dog. A girl brought her in and was bragging how she found her at the park the same day and time Missy went missing. I searched for two weeks. On December 29th I got a call from HomeAgain. They said they found Missy and she was at the vet. She apparently got a bladder infection and the girl took her to a vet. The vet told me it seemed suspicious and that you don't just find a Yorkie, it belongs to someone. They took Missy and scanned her and called HomeAgain. It was my dog. Had it not been for the HomeAgain microchip I would never have found Missy. I am also thankful for the wonderful vet that was smart enough to scan her. She received a notice from HomeAgain that M...

My Sweet Lilly Was Found

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:09:47 PM

I was visiting family in Michigan for the holidays. My little 5 lb. dog never has run away. Two days before Christmas I let her out to go to the bathroom. I walked away from the backdoor and then started wrapping Christmas gifts. My mom closed the door and I totally forgot about her. One hour went by and then I realized what I had done. I was hysterical. I walked the neighborhood screaming her name and crying. I then drove around looking for her. I thought for sure she would be dead or be given to someone for a Christmas present. I called HomeAgain and the alert was out. Two hours after losing her, HomeAgain called me and had the person that found her on the other end. She was 12 houses away from my mom's house. I ran to get her and ended up writing the lady a check for $100. It was a small price to pay for finding my 11 year old sweetheart. Lesson learned, I will never let her out unattended again. Thank goodness that I had her HomeAgain tag on her. Thanks so much. You made my holiday.

Lost For A Month During Ohio Winter

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:47:55 PM

Oscar, our indoor only cat of nearly 5 years, was accidentally let out the first week of December in northwest Ohio. He was outside a full night and day before we realized he was gone. We immediately contacted HomeAgain and the local animal shelters. We searched the neighborhood, but to no avail. As the nights got colder and Christmas came and passed, my wife worried herself sick and began to lose hope. Then the first week of January, I got a call from HomeAgain that said that they had a woman on the line who may have found Oscar. I spoke with her and found out she was just a few houses away and there was a cat matching Oscar's description in her basement. I went to her house and our little grey boy was snuggled up on a pile of insulation in her crawl space! I took him to the vet, and he had lost a couple of pounds and had a stick wedged in the roof of his mouth, but was otherwise ok. He is resting comfortably and is very affectionate and glad to be home. Thank you so much HomeAgain for reuniting us with...

Wandered Off

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:39:32 PM

My Golden, Buster, is a very curious and friendly dog that has to check out the ice fishing houses when they go up this time of year. He must have gotten disorientated, because he went missing for 4 days before I got the call from HomeAgain, saying he was at a neighbor's at the other end of the lake. This was the second time HomeAgain has come through for Buster, and I couldn't be happier with the service.

Lost and Found Thanks to HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 30, 2011 7:02:51 PM

My dogs went missing between midnight and 1 am this morning. I immediately started looking for them and found my male within a few blocks of our home. My female dog, Xanka was still missing. I gave up driving every street in a 5 mile radius looking for her at around 3:30am. I woke up immediately at 7am and started looking again. I reported to HomeAgain at around 9:30am and posted the flyers they so conveniently generate for you. By 12:30pm, I received a call. My dog was found by a person who fell in love with her and drove her to his home 45 minutes away from our area. He took her to the vet where she was scanned for a microschip and the call was made to the 800 number. If it weren't for the microchip and HomeAgain I would have never been reunited with our little princess. Thanks again HomeAgain! Well worth your value and so much more. We really appreciate it!

My Christmas Wish Came True

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 26, 2011 6:48:16 PM

Christmas Miracle

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 26, 2011 2:07:30 PM

We came home late from visiting family on Christmas night to find that our dog broke open the gate and disappeared. Neighbors told us that there were very loud and numerous fireworks set off in our neighborhood in celebration of the holiday. Our dog was scared and on the run. After we called friends and neighbors and searched the neighborhood, we went online to report Oski lost with HomeAgain. Luckily some wonderful people who were out looking at Christmas lights found him. They brought Oski to a neighborhood clinic first thing, the morning after Christmas. The HomeAgain lost dog flyers were already at the clinic when they arrived. The clinic recognized him, checked his microchip and we were phoned by ten that very morning! Our Christmas nightmare turned into a Christmas miracle. Thanks HomeAgain!

Proof Positive Microchip

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:15:44 PM

Fiona escaped while an electrician was working in the laundry room. Friends and family hung signs and searched for 3 days. Shelters and animal hospitals in the entire county were contacted and visited. This morning, a good samaritan called me while he was looking at a sign at the end of my block. He drove across town to my neighborhood looking for my contact information, because he knew his friends had picked up my dog 3 days earlier. The people intended to keep her, but this individual felt that she should come home. He suggested that bringing the police with me to their home would be the right thing to do. I contacted my local police, and the officers involved responded beautifully. The police were thrilled that she was microchipped as easy proof of ownership. Fiona was returned to me promptly, and I gave the people the reward they requested.

The Best Christmas Gift Ever

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:02:19 PM

Thanks to the efforts of many, our beautiful dog Nola is back home safe and sound! It started with the rallying support of the amazing Dunwoody community that we live in - neighbors, friends and strangers alike, came together to try and find Nola. Around the same time people were looking around and sending e-mail blasts, a concerned high school student (who I can only describe as a divine angel) spotted Nola about 1/2 mile away in a high traffic area trying to cross the street. With swerving vehicles and honking horns this girl, with no regard to her own safety (and having no idea who this dog belonged to), stopped her car and coaxed Nola into the vehicle to safety. She took Nola home with her and posted "Found Husky" information on theahaconnection.com. In the meantime, HomeAgain sent out an e-mail blast with details about Nola and what area she was missing from. Within minutes, literally, I received a call from HomeAgain stating that they had a woman on the line with possible information about where...

We Found Johnny

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:31:04 AM

My sweet little kitten Johnny got out of my apartment a few nights ago without my realizing it. After he did not show up for two days I decided it was time to report him lost with Hom Again. Less than twenty-four hours later, I received a call saying my cat was found by a neighbor who happened to work at a vet clinic and saw the missing animal report. This is the second time HomeAgain has helped in finding a missing pet of mine. I am so thankful to HomeAgain for all their help and to Jennifer for taking care of my kitty.

Chase is Found!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:45:40 PM

This may be a case of over bonding. Chase and I are together 24/7. This time of the year it's even more as we spend hours and hours together in the truck as we travel to our weekly hunting spot. We live in a remote rural setting where there are many creatures that would love nothing more than a Labrador burger. So we have to be sure he's in the house before dark. He's always been really good about never wandering off. Lately he's gotten really antsy when I have to run off for an errand. This was the case yesterday. I returned from my trip to find my wife at the end of our mile long driveway frantically searching for Chase. Of course all of the natural disasters rush through your mind. Coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions. I did a quick search of the canyon behind the house and found deer, elk and coyote tracks but no Chase tracks. I jumped in the truck that he knows so well and took off down the road looking for my best friend. I was looking so hard I nearly missed it, so I turned around and drove back to w...

My Runaway Princess

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:32:34 PM

My little one Zoee is a trained service dog, but she loves to try to make adventure for herself. More than once she has found her way to someone with a disability or senior citizen. Her last adventure she was at an assisted living home. I'm thankful that it's nice people that find her and actually return her. She has a slight case of ADD and will just run away if you turn your back. Thanks to HomeAgain she has gotten home again and again. I'm very thankful for the service they provide to me for such a low cost. They help so much with the leg work in such a stressful situation.

HomeAgain Brought Our Baby Home!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:40:28 PM

After a nasty fall, the paramedics came to patch me up, but they left our front door open and our little Dot ran out! With the fire truck and ambulance outside, I think it freaked her out and she just took off. Upon returning home from the hospital, I was crushed to see that she wasn't there. I called HomeAgain to report her lost and make sure they had updated contact information. I drove around the neighborhood, talked to everyone and put flyers on doors, mailboxes and local businesses. I went home heartbroken and cried every night. It had been three days of worry and anguish when I received the call. A good samaritan had found Dottie and taken her to their vet's office to check for a microchip. Dottie had managed to make it 8 miles away from our home! Without HomeAgain I don't think we would have ever found her. I'd like to thank HomeAgain for their services and helping to bring our baby home!

Bengal Traveled 30 miles!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:49:08 PM

Our beautiful Bengal cat, Samir went missing on November 8th. After one month, he was found 30 miles away, south of San Francisco, in San Mateo! A very kind woman and her daughter had been feeding him for a week and finally took him to be scanned for a microchip, which he has. I put up hundreds of posters, visited every shelter for miles around, but would never have gone across the bridge to look there! He has a story to tell and one we will never know. He is a survivor and is fine. So, thanks to everyone for kindness to stray animals - get your animals microchipped and keep your information up to date. And for those of you still looking, don't give up! Miracles and the kindness of strangers can happen!

Reegan and Coincidences

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 03, 2011 2:14:24 PM

Reegan had been missing since the day after Thanksgiving, a total of 8 days. We had begun to lose hope that we would find her, or that anyone else would find her. This morning we got a call from HomeAgain that someone had brought Reegan in to an animal hospital to be scanned and checked for sickness. They contacted HomeAgain and the people who found her were connected with us. In a strange coincidence, a woman who works with my father-in-law found Reegan. She and her husband happen to live a couple of neighborhoods away on the opposite side of the street and found her hiding in a shrub. The woman and her husband called to Reegan and she went to them. She stayed the night last night at their house; and they gave her food and water. Reegan warmed to their 5 dogs right off the bat, and since Reegan is such a cuddly sweet cat, they had hoped that they could keep her! Since me and my husband are going to be moving to take a position helping youth with Boys Town, we decided that since the couple wanted to adopt...

April Found Because of Microchip

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:41:25 PM

My April was lost after I had to give her up to a foster home due to my living situation. Her foster mom put her outside only two days after having her, even though I told her not to! She was missing for seven months. She was desperate to get into a lady's house who had been feeding her because it was getting cold and she was lonely, but the lady had two other cats who did not like other cats. She took her to her vet to check for a microchip and they called me and I have my baby back now. I am now in a place when I can keep her. I am so thankful for HomeAgain, I am a veterinary technician and I highly recommend them to all of my clients. Thank you HomeAgain!

Small Miracles At Thanksgiving

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:14:37 PM

I went out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday. I did all of the right things by having a pet sitter come in to check in on my furry kitties while I was gone. I even had my brother and a friend pop by too. Sunday afternoon I discovered in a casual conversation with my pet sitter that one of my kitties was nowhere to be found. I was out of state with no ability to conduct my own search. After multiple phone calls I pieced together that Skye my 11-year old cat had ventured out some time Friday morning. Over 48 hours at the time of the discovery. I enlisted friends and family to put food and water outside and to take turns stopping by my house. I knew my cats were microchipped and I vaguely recalled registering them a few years back. However, being out of the state I had no information how to find out the microchip information. I did an internet search, recognized HomeAgain and just figured "What do I have to lose". So I picked up the phone and called. They had both cats listed in their database a...

Returned After 6 months

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 28, 2011 4:23:12 PM

In 2008 I left Bruno with my uncle while I was in Texas for a month long training with the military. I was only gone a few days when my uncle called to tell me that Bruno had gotten out of the yard and he couldn't find him. Flyers were put up in the neighborhood but we got no response. Six months later my flight landed returning from a trip to Japan and I had 6 voice mails from various family members, all telling me that Bruno was found on the other side of St. Louis. He was found walking down the side of a major four lane road and a lady had stopped to get him before he got hit by a car. Lucky for me she took him to the closest vet, where they got my uncle’s contact information from his microchip. He had some bald spots from food allergies and hadn't had a nail trim in the entire 6 months he was gone, but other than that he was the same Bruno that I had been missing.

Long 24 Hours Later

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:08:45 PM

Mickey is the smallest member of our family. Mickey disappeared on Sunday morning shortly after 8am. The search began instantly. Everyone looked for hours, everywhere we could possibly think to look, except on the streets since he was afraid of traffic. The search continued past midnight that same Sunday and early 1am on Monday. We could not let little Mickey freeze or starve. He eats very little and gets cold easily and the temperature was already dropping. A lot of posters were made in search of tiny Mickey to get him home. I notified HomeAgain later in the day around 9pm and gave them a description as well as a microchip number. Exactly 24 hours later on Monday morning approximately 8:30pm, I received a call from HomeAgain saying Mickey was found and he is safe in a vet office. Mickey was found at approximately 10:30am on Sunday and he was safe this whole time. Thank You HomeAgain , for notifying us immediately after his microchip was scanned.

Kaiden Got What!

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 21, 2011 3:14:30 PM

Right now my dog, Kaiden, is staying with my mom. Just this past weekend Kaiden was in the front yard playing for twenty minutes, and went missing. My mom didn't bother to tell me. Two months ago I got my baby girl microchipped with HomeAgain. I figured even though my 2 month old puppy never left my side, it would be a good idea, just in case. We do hunt, we do SAR and we do a lot of camping. The inevitable is bound to happen if I take my eyes off of her for more than two minutes. Kaiden was picked up by a good samaritan over by a hotel, and brought to Morgan Vet clinic, where it was found she did not have her collar on (it broke off in her great escape for freedom). Kaiden later on was scanned for a microchip, and brought back to my parents’ house. Two months ago I really couldn't afford to have Kaiden microchipped, but I knew I wouldn't have the amount of money it cost to do it again. I am thankful I paid the fee, or else I wouldn't have her back home with me.

Longest 24 Hours

Found Pets Home — Friday, November 18, 2011 11:27:45 AM

Molly and Thora decided to dig a hole and explore the neighborhood. It was later that day when we realized they were gone. I was frantic. The temperature was dropping. HomeAgain called me the next day and informed me that Molly and Thora were sited. I was able to contact the neighbor that answered the alert. I am extremely thankful to HomeAgain and the kind neighbor. Molly has been reunited with our family but Thora was reluctant to go to a stranger. We will keep looking for her.

After Three Years My Baby Is Back!

Found Pets Home — Friday, November 18, 2011 9:12:19 AM

My name is Heather and I lost my dog on 4/8/09! I put up signs everywhere for her and looked for about 6 months before I thought she was never coming back to us. I got a new dog and we all tried to go on with our lives. We all still talked about her and how great of a dog she was and how we would never find another dog like her! On 11/2/11 I got a phone call from Millvillage Animal hospital someone had just brought Olivia in and had her microchip scanned. HomeAgain still had her in their system as missing. My husband spoke with the lady that had her and it turned out he knew her. He told them since they had, had her so long we wanted to at least come as a family and see her. Well they stopped all contact with us and would answer text messages only. They told me she had run away and they didn't know where she was. I did have to take them to court but after three weeks she is back at home with her family! Thank you HomeAgain, if it wasn't for your microchip and the help of your team there, I would have never go...

Two Years Later!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:53:09 PM

In November of 2009, our Doberman Red got lost. We looked everywhere for her for days and could not find her. I called HomeAgain and notified them of the unfortunate situation. We would drive around the neighborhood when we heard an ambulance to listen for her howl, but no matter what we did we could not find her. On November 9th, 2011, I received a call from the pet hospital in Kernville, CA saying that our dog Red was scanned at their hospital. It turns out that she was running around in Bodfish and a concerned person took the time to do the right thing and have her microchip scanned at the hospital. Lucky for us we were able to be reunited with our family member and bring her home. We are so thankful for HomeAgain and for the people who took the time to find Red's owner. Thank you!

The Runner!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:59:02 PM

We got Charlie from our vet's office. Someone there had found the little guy wandering the streets of a nearby town. We already have 3 dogs and 1 cat but both of us are animal lovers and the little guy needed a home. Unfortunately, I did not immediately get his tags! But we thought there was no way he could get out of our yard. On a Sunday morning we were having repair work done in the house and put all of the dogs in the yard. The repair lasted about an hour and we then called the dogs in. All came back but Charlie. There is a walking trail behind our house and we immediately began walking it and calling for him. But as we had only had him for about 10 days, we weren't sure he would even come to his name or in any event know where his house was. After putting him numerous flyers, putting an ad on Craigslist, knocking on doors in our neighborhood, and visiting veterinarians within a 10 mile radius, we figured he was gone! The next day, I got a call late in the day. Someone had seen my flyer an...

Our Little Runaway

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 01, 2011 4:30:58 PM

My girlfriend and I rescued Lucy, a 4 year old, 25 pound Beagle, about 10 days ago. On her way out to pick up a pizza, my girlfriend was surprised to find that Lucy quickly jumped out the front door in front of her while she had her hands full. She dropped everything in her hands, and tried to chase Lucy down, but could not catch her. With tears in her eyes, my girlfriend came down the street toward me telling me that she was gone, and it was all her fault. We contacted HomeAgain, and within 20 minutes, we received a call that someone had found Lucy. I cannot say enough good things about the service you provide. You truly saved us a lot of heartache, worrying about our little runaway.

3 Weeks and 46 Miles From Home!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:18:56 AM

After spending 14 hours on Sunday posting flyers and posters, my children and I went to bed exhausted. It was a difficult day as we approached 3 weeks of our "Bullseye" missing. We were sure someone had him and for some reason had not taken him to a vet or shelter where he could be scanned and returned to us. We had spent every spare minute we could hanging flyers and driving through neighborhoods looking for him for 3 weeks and the mental and emotional exhaustion was starting to set in for my 2 children (11 yr old boy, autistic and 14 yr old daughter). As my children sat crying I had to give the brave face and re-assure the kids that we would find him and we would never give up hope. The next day was Monday and I was about my work when my cell phone rang. It wasn't a number I recongized but something in me said answer it. It was an animal Shelter in St. Joe Missouri that was more than 40 miles away! How on earth did he get there? I asked "are you sure it is my dog, are you sure he is a male, are you sure...

What A Miracle

Found Pets Home — Monday, October 24, 2011 4:52:47 PM

I have been staying with my folks temporarily now. They have 2 dogs and I have one which is Pumpkin. On 10/22 Pumpkin was put outside with the rest of the dogs, after 15 minutes or so, the 2 dogs came back in while Pumpkin did not show up. I yelled and searched the back yard to see if she got hurt, nothing, and I checked around the fencing. Well there was a hole that I fixed a few months ago, thinking that she would not get through it since I put a rock where the fence was and tied the fence with some metal. She climbed and got through the hole, went into the neighbor’s yard, and got through their fence. I searched the whole neighborhood for hours trying to find her. Nobody saw her, and I was extremely worried due to the fact that the house is next to a main road. After searching the neighborhood, I remembered that I had Pumpkin microchipped with HomeAgain. I called them, and told them what happened, and within minutes they sent flyers out to all the vets, shelters etc. within a 25 mile radius. The n...

Onslow County to the Rescue

Found Pets Home — Monday, October 24, 2011 2:58:11 PM

An Onslow County resident brought in a little min pinscher that was found on Hwy 17, into the Onslow County Animal Shelter on 9/16/09. The citizen stated he had almost hit the dog on the busy road. When logging in the dog, he was scanned for a microchip and found he had one in him. Animal Services then contacted the HomeAgain database, and found the dog's owner. The dog was registered to an owner in Raleigh, NC (about 2 hours away). Animal Services immediately contacted the owner. Apparently, the dog had been stolen from the owner 3 years prior! At the time, a police report was made out but they were unsuccessful in finding the dog. Thanks to the Onslow County Animal Services, the owner was successfully reunited with their long lost dog! It's wonderful, stories like this that have encouraged other pet owners in Onslow County to have their pets microchipped.

Riley Was Sick, Got Loose at Animal ER

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:57:27 PM

My Riley got out of his pet carrier in the parking lot at the Animal Emergency Room on September 8th. We looked and looked and after weeks went by we figured he was dead as the vet said with having tremors he wouldn't make it through the night. We sent out and put up flyers in the area, nothing. On this past Sunday the Animal ER vet tech called, saying they spotted him and I got a hold of an animal organization called Orange Street Cats they put up “Have a Heart” traps. I got a call they trapped him they scanned him and his microchip came up to belong to me. They checked him over and he was fine. I got up there as soon as possible and brought him home. He is fine, hungry, tired and a little nervous about his surroundings so he is meowing a lot but still my snuggle bug. Thanks HomeAgain!

On The Side Of The Road

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:49:37 PM

Emma a house cat only, got out through a torn screen on the back porch on Monday. She had no collar on but was microchipped. I was getting flyers ready to hang. Wednesday I got a call from Animal Control. They had my Emma - she was healthy but dirty. She had wondered off about a half mile. She was lying on the side of the road, when a wonderful pet lover, saw her. She thought she was dead and was going to move her and call Animal Control. When she got closer, Emma went under her car and wouldn't come out. She called Animal Control who offered Emma food which she was happy to come from under the car for. The Animal Control officer called me and said "I have your sweet girl Emma and she is healthy but dirty." The officer could hold her for 30 minutes; she was near my house. I had a friend go to my house to get Emma settled. She said Emma went to her favorite hiding place behind the sofa. Her sister Lily was happy to see her. I am very lucky that she was found. I was very lucky that a wonderful person decided...

Missing for 7 Months

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:43:57 PM

I am legally blind, Lucy snuck out the front door without me knowing it. Lucy was named after "Saint Lucy" the Catholic Saint for vision. When my husband came home from work, hours later he said "where is Lucy?" She was gone just like that. Two months later we received a phone call from HomeAgain informing us that Lucy’s collar was found on a sailboat about one mile north of where we lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. But there was no sign of Lucy. Well at least we now know which direction she was going. Months go by, we posted flyers, you name it we hunted and hunted, no Lucy. Now we have her collar but no Lucy. Seven months after her great escape she showed up at the Humane Society, 20 miles from our home. We were notified that she was there. No collar but she had the HomeAgain microchip in her neck so they were able to contact us for our reunion. Thanks HomeAgain, we now have three rescue cats and all have HomeAgain Chips!

So Thankful For This Site

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 15, 2011 5:03:51 PM

Our dog ran away and after several days of searching, calling, and going to shelters I remembered my info on HomeAgain was outdated and incorrect. I called and renewed my membership, updated contact info, and during the same phone call I was connected with the very nice lady who had found my dog. She took him to have his microchip read but couldn’t get a hold of me because my info was incorrect. Me, my son and my daughter will forever be grateful and never let our info lapse again.

Happy Ending!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:36:41 PM

Our York Terrier was missing for a month before we found her. We had posted flyers, news ads, craigslist etc., hoping someone had seen Nani. People always told me I might just never find her because she was too cute and she was a small dog. But I never lost hope, I knew she would be found, because my dog had a microchip. When I got the call from a vet clinic that my dog was found I was so excited. Someone had brought her in not knowing my dog was microchipped. Oh boy, did they have a surprise when they told them this dog had been missing. They had no clue how the microchip works. I can now tell everyone how lucky we are for having my dog microchipped.

Long Lost Dog Found

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:41:19 PM

I had the microchip installed when I first got Rocky. A few months later I had a friend watch Rocky while I went on vacation. When I came home Rocky had been stolen. I was upset and filed with HomeAgain and my local humane society that he was missing. Well 5 months went by, and I hadn’t heard a word. Two days ago, I got a call from my humane society saying they had Rocky. My first question was “how did you find me?" The lady told me they had scanned his microchip and pulled up my information. I was so relieved. I now have Rocky back where he belongs with his family. Thank you, HomeAgain.

Gregory Was Found Months Later!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:17:04 PM

Gregory went missing in December after accidently being let outside, I searched everywhere for him but no luck. After several months of nothing I gave up hope, I figured something bad happened to him and there was nothing I could do. Then one day, I received about 4 phone calls and an email, one from HomeAgain to my cell phone and house phone, Animal Control (who found him), and an email! Animal Control had picked him up after people reported a 'lost cat' around their house. If it wasn't for the microchip and the HomeAgain service, I would have never found him. Gregory has very similar markings to the majority of tabby cats that I see wandering the streets so it would've been impossible to find him! Gregory is now happy and healthy and glad to be back indoors!

Marley and Us

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 07, 2011 12:28:22 PM

Our beautiful 3 year old blonde Labrador Retriever, Marley was a very adventurous dog, like most labs. One day she ventured out 5 miles away from where we live. Unfortunately Marley was hit by a car on her adventure and sometime during the process Marley lost her collar. A very nice couple found her in the road and took her back to their house. They then called animal control and animal control took her to the animal hospital. The animal hospital scanned her for a microchip and found our information. Not only did the animal hospital contact me, but HomeAgain contacted me also. Marley was in very bad shape. She was paralyzed in her hind legs, had a shattered pelvis, and many other injuries. We took Marley home and made her very comfortable and let her live out her remaining days as Queen of the house, not that she wasn’t anyway. Unfortunately Marley passed away in her sleep about a week later due to complications of her injuries. My husband and I just wanted to say thank you for your 3 years of wonderful servi...

Remy Is Home Safe and Sound!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:05:20 PM

My dogs pushed a loose board off of my privacy fence. It was behind my shed and it was not obvious that it was loose when we walked around the fence last weekend. We were home and realized they got loose within 5 minutes of the escape, but after 15 minutes, 2 dogs were still missing, including a foster dog and my girl Remy (who had a microchip). We searched for 6 hours, making lost pet reports at local shelters etc. Someone had found Remy running in the median of a busy city street and had been looking on craigslist for a couple of hours. I hadn't had a chance to post anything under lost and found because I was out still looking for her. I came home and was in the process of posting on craigslist when I got a phone call from a Henrico Animal Control Officer. The person that found her finally called local animal control. Luckily HomeAgain had donated scanners not just to the shelter but also so that all officers could have scanners in their trucks. It worked!! He scanned her and luckily I had registe...

We Found Reggie

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 05, 2011 8:57:27 PM

We were returning from a 10 day vacation and 3 hours before our friends were to pick us up from the airport, who were watching Reggie (and Rosie, our female Yorkie), had a wild search as Reggie dashed out of the garage after a cat (in true Terrier fashion) and got lost. We now have confirmed how fast he is - some neighbors thought he was a rabbit, being only 2.5 pounds. We launched a HUGE campaign - 1,000 flyers were printed and about 8 friends helped cover several streets going door to door, hanging flyers on trash cans in the park and every light pole in a one mile radius. My husband took two days off work spending 15-16 hours each day searching. We used other companies but the posters and the ID information from HomeAgain worked!!! So worth having a microchip! The lady that picked him up did NOT live in the area but was driving by, gave him a bath even. Thank you so much for helping us get our Reggie back! Our female Yorkie Rosie is much happier too. Our cat isn't too sure... but the family is re-...

My Baby Girl Was Gone Overnight

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:08:26 PM

A very kind man found my dog, He called the animal control to try to scan her but the county said it was too late for them to come out. He took my dog home with him and made sure she had food, water and shelter for the night and went back to work at trying to find her owner. He went to the SPCA and they scanned her but made no contact with HomeAgain or me about my dog being scanned. He then took her to his Vet and they contacted HomeAgain to let me know that my dog had been found. This very nice person brought her home to me without even taking gas money for his time. I am glad to know that there are people who will look out for my dog and do what is right to take care of her

Back Home Safely!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:26:23 PM

Bubba had broken his kennel door then jumped over the fence in the middle of the night. He was found in the next county! While escaping, he broke his tags off of his collar. The animal shelter said that if he didn't have his microchip, she would not have been able to contact us!

I Owe My Husband Big Time!

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 19, 2011 5:46:29 PM

Xerox, a 1 year old male at the time, adopted us by wandering in through our dog door in January 2010. He took an immediate liking to me. I was overjoyed. When it was evident he was going to stay, I made an appointment for him to get fixed and be vaccinated. At the pre-op appointment they offered the HomeAgain microchip as an option during surgery. Or it could be done later in the office. The surgery and vaccines had me tapped out financially, so I asked my husband if we should just micro chip Xerox the following month. He thought about it and then the day of the surgery he said he would pay for Xerox's microchip. It was cheaper to do it during surgery than during an office visit. Three weeks later, Xerox was gone. He did not come home one morning. I was beside myself with worry. When HomeAgain called to tell me he was at our local animal shelter, I cried. I started screaming and my daughters started crying, too. We were so happy. If it had not been for my husband paying for the microchip when he...

Thank You California and HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 19, 2011 12:55:56 PM

Bucky (our Jack Russell Terrier) had gone with my husband to run and chase bunnies. They do that several times a week. I got a call from HomeAgain telling me a lady had found our dog. I didn’t know he was missing and they had already found him. Thank you, California and HomeAgain.

She Jumped Over the Wall

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 19, 2011 10:46:14 AM

Our back yard ends in a wall about 10 feet high, but the distance down to the yard on the other side is only about 4 feet. Willow (who was about 2 years old at the time) jumped over the wall into the other yard (she is an indoor/outdoor cat). She played in that yard until after dark, and then couldn't find her way home. The person in the house heard her meowing and the next day took her to PetSmart, where there was a microchip reader. She was delivered to us safe and sound.

A Good Neighbor

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 17, 2011 8:30:21 AM

My baby Kiki went missing during a thunderstorm one evening. I spent the entire night out searching for her in the storm and part of the next day, with no luck. I contacted HomeAgain, when I got home and reported her missing. About 8 hours later I was contacted by HomeAgain informing me she was found by someone in my neighborhood about 3 blocks away. This good neighbor took her in and cared for her and HomeAgain placed me on a conference call with the neighbor so I could arrange her return. Thank goodness for HomeAgain!

Reason to Keep Info Current

Found Pets Home — Friday, September 16, 2011 7:59:26 AM

Chip, our special needs lab, got loose one evening, about 9pm. He had gotten loose once before, in the daylight, but we were able to find him within minutes; not this time. It was a dark night, not a lot of street lights in our area, and Chip is old. He does not hear very well anymore and almost to a fault, he is friendly with all people and animals. I searched, with the help of family, for hours, before I finally came home, emotional exhausted, and called HomeAgain to report him lost, while everyone else continued the search. By this time it was well after midnight. Chip takes medication for seizures and it is imperative he take all doses on time. His next dose was coming up in 6 hours. I was panic stricken as I talked to the operator and answered simple questions about Chip's appearance and his last known location. Then suddenly, the man I was talking to says, "Oh wait, we had a call on Chip, but your information on file was no longer valid, so we could not reach you to arrange a pickup." No longer valid?...

Crescent Stolen For 5 Months

Found Pets Home — Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:42:18 PM

Crescent was out in the yard with her other loving Min. Schnauzers, cuddled up and asleep. One of my sisters was watching my dogs while I was away for the weekend. She went out and checked on them around midnight. All were fine and at the time still snuggled up. My grandfather had a camper outside and could hear the dogs. Around four in the morning he had heard a yelping. But he had assumed the dogs were playing. Next morning my sister went out to feed the dogs. Crescent was missing! However the other two were still in the yard. Crescent is a friendly dog and loves to say hello to people. She was pregnant at the time and was expecting very soon. Here my registered pregnant dog was missing. We had been hearing stories of small breed dogs going missing from around the area. They were being stolen and sold. I have heard stories of dogs being reunited with their families, years later because of buyers finding out they were microchipped. Crescent was gone for 5 months; here I was sad and depressed because of my...

Thank God For the Chip

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:39:14 PM

Selena is our first dog and she ran away Tuesday night around 7pm. She has run away before so we put the microchip in her in case something like this happened again. So when she ran away this time we reported her lost through HomeAgain and Wednesday morning at 9am we got a call from the local pound saying they had her. The lady at the pound said this was the quickest she has seen a dog return home and it was all because of the microchip in her. The lady at the pound also said that this was the first time she has scanned a dog and had the microchip actually registered. I guess a lot of people get the chip but never take that next step. All in all we are extremely blessed in how quickly we got our little girl back and it was all because of that micochip and the wonderful women who picked her up on the road and brought her straight to the pound in the morning. There are still decent people in this world.

Came Home After 20 Months

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:29:07 PM

Rexie was returned to us after being missing for over 20 months thanks to her microchip. We were contacted by an Animal Shelter 40 miles away from where she was lost.

Dog Lost in Stolen Car Returned!

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 12, 2011 11:00:28 AM

Spending the night at a friend’s house turned in to a weeklong nightmare when my car was stolen from the street in front of their house with my dog, Madison, inside. We were four hours from home in Seattle, WA in completely unfamiliar territory. When I discovered she was missing the first thing I did was update my information with HomeAgain. I also printed out their Lost Dog flyers and posted them everywhere. I called all the shelters, checked websites and put an ad in the newspaper. After a week of endless searching, I got a call from a shelter 30 minutes from my friend’s house, they had found Madison. My first words were "Are you sure it's her?' He responded, "Microchips don't lie" and I knew my baby was safe. Without the microchip and HomeAgain, my dog and I may never have crossed paths again. Thank you so much, this is the best investment in my pet that I have ever made.

In the Blink of an Eye!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:06:10 AM

I was getting ready for a job interview and decided to let our new dog Jocko out to go potty before I left. We had just adopted him two days prior. As I was gathering my two year old daughter's things so I could drop her off at my grandmother's on the way, I heard her call out "Mommy come quick!" from the side of the house in the backyard. I walked out and our dog was nowhere to be found. I asked my daughter where he went and she pointed to the fence. He had gotten through a fairly small space in it. I ran out front and didn't see him. I cancelled my job interview and called my fiancé to let him know what had happened. I hopped in the van with my daughter and drove up and down the very busy street that was right out front of our home. I decided to go on foot after not seeing him and started roaming through nearby neighborhoods with both myself and my daughter in tears. It had been about 30 minutes or so since he had taken off when I received a phone call from HomeAgain telling me that someone in my area had f...

Honest People Not Extinct!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:22:06 PM

My youngest son, Julian, let our little dog, Jade, out this morning while I was doing some laundry in the garage. I immediately printed out some flyers and drove around my neighborhood for maybe 2 hours. Thank God for microchips and honest people! The lady that had found our Jade called in to report her and the customer rep then called me to let me know. I was just jumping for joy! Jade is our first dog and we love her very much. Thank you for what you do!

Our Prodigal Henry Has Returned!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:20:16 PM

Thanks to HomeAgain and the kindness of a stranger, Henry is back home, safe and sound. We were heart-broken, looking all over the neighborhood for him, contacting animal hospitals and shelters and posting flyers where we thought he would most likely have been. It turned out that Henry wandered just a block over and found food and a safe place to sleep at a neighbor's house. This neighbor (who we had not met previously) happened to see an email from HomeAgain the following morning with Henry's picture and lost status. He immediately called HomeAgain, who put us in contact with him. A half an hour later we had Henry back. We couldn't be happier with HomeAgain's service and we're thrilled to have the furriest member of our family back!

Wow Worked Fast!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:08:39 AM

Our dog Deeva broke out of our fence while we were gone, and ran away. We were heartbroken when we came home and she wasn't there to greet us. We called HomeAgain right away, and went to find her. Our son was devastated, and would not stop crying because we could not find her before bedtime. We got up this morning with posters in hand ready to begin the search again when we received a call from HomeAgain, saying they had a tip about a dog matching her description. The person that found her put a message on Facebook, and a friend told her about microchips from HomeAgain and gave her the number to call. Within minutes HomeAgain connected us together to see if it was Deeva. It was our Deeva! I just want to let everyone know that HomeAgain service was worth every penny! They helped us find our dog in less than 12 hours, and we live in a rural area, that's impressive...keep up the good work!!

Welcome Home - We Missed You Lucy!

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 29, 2011 8:52:51 PM

A young boy found Lucy on the highway, about a block from our house, and took her home, then brought her to the Vet clinic near our home. They scanned her and called us to say she was there. The microchip worked wonderfully! So her fenceless collar is back on. Thank you HomeAgain, for your help!

My Loving Little Princess!

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 29, 2011 7:43:58 PM

I am very proud to have found Princess! This story is really heartfelt. On August 11, 2011 Princess got out. I run a big daycare and am busy all the time. She normally stays upstairs a lot so I didn’t notice she was gone. About 9pm, after the last kid left, I realized that she was gone and we began searching. I put up lots of flyers but they kept disappearing and received no calls. In the beginning, when I first got her a while back, the original owner never updated her chip. When I tried to update it, I couldn’t because there wasn’t anything showing in the system. So it didn’t dawn on me to call HomeAgain when she was lost until I was talking to a parent that was explaining that it’s a rare dog and how meaningful it is when dogs are microchipped, so I called HomeAgain in hopes of a wonderful miracle that they could help locate her. So I called on August 23, 2011 and spoke with a wonderful representative that pulled her I.D. up immediately and stated that there was a girl who called three days prior st...

Charlie Who

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:46:55 PM

Being preoccupied with working on a plumbing problem while watching two sick grandkids, we decided to ignore an unknown 800 number when our home phone rang. A short while later our daughter-in-law called saying, "They found Charlie!" My response was, "Charlie who?" "Charlie, your dog" she responded. We had no idea he had gotten out. He was reported just a couple of blocks from our house, and after making contact, I walked down to pick him up. We are so impressed with HomeAgain! Not only does the system work, but we were at awe with HomeAgain's persistence in contacting us. They tried our home phone, which we ignored; they tried my cell phone, which was left in my truck; and they then called our alternate contact, our daughter-in-law. Thanks, HomeAgain. We so appreciate your great service.

Jake Finds His Way Home Again

Found Pets Home — Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:26:21 PM

On August 6, 2011, I adopted Jake from a local Border Collie rescue (Border Collies in Need). I was told that Jake was one day from being put to sleep. On August 26, 2011, the air conditioning company came out to my home to service my air conditioner. The back gate was left open, giving Jake and his new sister an opportunity to explore the neighborhood on their own. Jake's sister returned about midnight that same night but Jake did not. I combed the area using the great posters I got from the HomeAgain website. I took one of them to my local shelter and had it posted in the lobby. By late afternoon Jake was located by the local dog catcher and brought in but the worker from the shelter recognized him immediately from his lost poster, scanned him and confirmed that Jake was lost and someone was looking for him. She called me immediately and Jake was able to come back home again. Thank you so much. I am so happy to have my Jake back home where he belongs.

That Was Fast!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, August 27, 2011 9:07:59 AM

I woke up this morning and my dogs were both gone. They apparently pushed open the gate. I reported them missing on HomeAgain and shortly afterwards got a call from them. They conferenced me in with Wayne, who had found them when he was walking his dogs. I just brought them home. Thank you, Wayne and thanks to HomeAgain!

Buster Went Missing

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:16:40 PM

Buster loves squirrels and will often stay out for hours waiting for them to come down from our many trees but on this day he didn't respond. After several hours, I knew something was wrong and to top it off it was Sunday. The next morning I contacted HomeAgain and updated my info and provided a photo and within one hour I received a call from the local animal shelter that Buster had been turned in. Buster had his electronic fencing collar on but not an ID collar so thank goodness he was microchipped! Thank you HomeAgain!

Trinity Outsmarts The Robbers

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 24, 2011 4:27:57 PM

On July 27, 2010 in the morning someone came to our house while we were at work, kicked in our back door, and robbed us. In addition to all of our jewelry and electronics, they also took my daughter’s dog, Trinity. We were devastated to say the least. My daughter had come by our house at 2:30PM and discovered the break in and her dog missing. We knew Trinity would not go with them willingly and if she ran away, she would have found her way back. The thought that we would never see her again was very real in our minds. At about 7:00PM, we received a call from HomeAgain. Someone had found Trinity in the middle of an intersection far from our house, coaxed her to come to them, took her to a vet and found out she had a microchip. That is how they found us and we were reunited with her that night! Her feet were all tore up, so the next day we took her to the vet, they said her injuries were from jumping from a moving vehicle. She also had a big knot on her head where they probably hit her to knock her out. A year ...

Buster Home Safely Within Minutes!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:24:59 PM

I want to extend my sincerest thanks for your wonderful service and also to the two good samaritans who found our dog along a busy road. We just had a delivery to our home, and shortly after we received a call from HomeAgain. I had no idea our little guy had even slipped out the door, as it had never happened before. Buster was found at a neighbor's home by two wonderful people whom happened to be passing by and took the time to call HomeAgain so we could be reunited. Many thanks again to you and the kindhearted people who find the animals and bring back our beloved pets! Buster was home safe and sound within a matter of minutes!

Proof Positive

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 22, 2011 11:43:22 AM

Our indoor only cat, Shadow, had been missing for about a month when I saw him in our neighborhood. He was thin, with raggedy looking hair, and had several lacerations and bite wounds. He was a pitiful looking creature, but I knew he was mine. I called my husband to bring food and a carrier. When he arrived he saw me hugging and crying over this cat. He took one look and told me to put it down, who knew what diseases it might be carrying. I told him it was Shadow and he absolutely did not believe me. We took him to our vet's office and had him scanned. He was our Shadow. My husband would never have let me bring home this raggedy looking cat if he had not been microchipped. Now there could be no doubt. I encourage everyone to have their pets microchipped, even if they are indoor only pets.

Twice Returned

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:10:41 AM

Max is an escape artist who has no fear of streets. He has followed his nose twice in the past 2 years and loves to ride in cars and is very social. The park across the street is quite a lure for him as it continues along a creek to very busy street. He has been picked up within a few minutes of bolting from home by some very kind people and brought to nearby veterinary offices and returned. The microchip was used both times to return him.

Long Lost Logan!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:02:12 PM

In November 2009, my beautiful Lynx Point Siamese cat, Logan, did not return home after getting out. Since he had a habit of getting outside, I had him microchipped the year before. Well, when he had been gone over a year I figured he was dead. Imagine my surprise when I got a call today, August 18th, from the local shelter letting me know they had found him! I cannot stress enough how important it is to have your animals chipped. It works!

Pure Luck

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:36:45 PM

Since I have a fenceless backyard, I have to let Katie out on a leash attached to a runner tied between two trees to allow her to roam freely for a short time. When I went outside to check on her, I noticed she had escaped from her collar, and was no where to be found. Panicking, I called HomeAgain to report her missing and update my contact information. Less than 24 hours later I received a phone call from my neighbor who found her, took her to the vet, and gave her a home for the night. Because Katie was collarless, her chances of returning home were slim to none. Thanks to HomeAgain for providing a wonderful technology to help bring Katie safely back home to me!

My Baby is Back!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:20:48 PM

My dog Chavo ran out of our gate on 6/25/11 and was picked up two houses down the street. Instead of returning our baby to us, the women that found our Chavo called from a private number to let us know that they were going to keep him. To our heartbreak we decided that we'll just wait and pray and hope that he runs away and picked up by someone who has a heart. Our prayers were answered yesterday when a sweet little lady picked him up and dropped him off at the local vet. He was scanned and his HomeAgain microchip brought him home. THANK YOU HomeAgain! Our baby Chavo is back!

Reunited For The Second Time

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7:09:26 PM

Bug has been in the family for over seven years, since the day he was born. He has been with me through thick and thin. He has always been an indoor/outdoor cat, but has always been around the house. When he went missing the first time, he was gone for almost a month. After getting him back, we decided to have him microchipped. Not even two weeks after getting him chipped, he went missing again. We waited a week before getting on the HomeAgain website. We posted a missing cat alert. Two days later, a neighbor showed up at our house with Bug. Apparently, the chip hadn't been in the system very long. When they first found him, they checked the website, which said he was unregistered. They made some calls to the animal shelters, and were finally able to find him in the system. We are so glad to have gotten him chipped. HomeAgain has made it SO much easier to find him! Thank you so much!

Mr. Puggles' Reunion

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 15, 2011 12:25:19 AM

We are so lucky, HomeAgain called us that someone had found my pug! They had called HomeAgain using the tag given with the microchipping. Mr. Puggles was scared and thirsty and they gave him water. Fortunately, they were very nice people that found him and I am very grateful to them and HomeAgain. Thank you so very much.

Jesse's Wild Adventure

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:27:56 AM

Some time in the evening of August 9th, Jesse slipped out into the night. Because she has only been with us for two short months, she is not familiar with the neighborhood and only goes outside on a leash with close supervision. When I noticed her missing it was already dark and rainy but I still searched the neighborhood for hours heartbroken and scared to death as to what might have happened to her. Finally giving up for the night in hopes that she was undercover from the rain and would be home and very hungry in the morning. Early the next morning, after a sleepless night, I got up to find she had not returned. That morning I went into work sick with worry, when I remembered that at adoption, she had been micro-chipped. Pulling out the paperwork, I made the call to HomeAgain to report Jesse missing at about 10:00 a.m. and by 3 p.m. she was back at home thanks to HomeAgain and the special family that took her in for the night and notified animal control. Thank you to all of the parties involved in the...

Lost Dog in Millersville

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:02:08 AM

Sheba took off on an early Saturday afternoon on August 6th. The gate to our yard didn't latch properly and she got out and started to chase the squirrels. I ran as fast as I could after her but she disappeared into the woods. My family and I searched the woods and surrounding neighborhoods for over 8 hours on Saturday and part of the day on Sunday. We posted lost dog reports throughout every internet site and most importantly HomeAgain's site! Our children made posters of Sheba being lost and posted them throughout multiple neighborhoods. Someone called within minutes after we arrived home saying they spotted the exact photograph of our dog on a Found Dog poster! We called and described her and it was Sheba. Unfortunately, Animal Control had come to pick her up because the family who found her already had a dog and they had to go to work in the morning. Sheba's collar fell off but she was microchipped and we were contacted by HomeAgain to let us know she was in the shelter! We will be picking her up today! W...

He's Back With His Family

Found Pets Home — Friday, August 05, 2011 7:06:57 PM

Taco turned up lost on 17 April around 11 at night. We searched inside and outside of home as soon as it was noted that he was missing. The next morning before we left for work and school we left his big comfy pillow, food and water bowl on the porch in case he came back. When we returned home later that day we were heartbroken to see that he was not there. We did all the normal things; contacted the shelters, registered him missing with HomeAgain, made flyers, walked the neighborhood, drove the neighborhood and used the social network to let our friends know. We checked the PetHarbor site, Craig's list, and the local news magazine. Many friends thougth that Taco had been taken by a wild animal or birds that frequents our neighborhood at night, but that was hard for us to believe because we did not hear any distressful noises the night he went missing. Our visits to the different media sites began to decrease to every other day, then weekly until not at all. However, around 5:45pm on July 8th, we re...

Tommy Returns Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:55:23 AM

Tommy slipped out unnoticed on March 21st. We posted signs all over our neighborhood and at a couple of local vet hospitals and businesses. We checked the animal shelter a few times per week. Months passed and no sign of him. We received a call from Tierrasanta Veterinary Hospital this afternoon (August 1), stating that Tommy had been brought in for treatment to a wound in his leg. The man that brought him in said he had found him about 2 months ago. Being a found cat, the vet scanned him for a microchip and immediately called HomeAgain to get our contact information. We are so happy to be reunited with Tommy!

Ava Was Lost But Now She's FOUND!

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 01, 2011 8:50:08 PM

While away on a 4 day trip, I had someone looking after my pets. On the day I was to return, Sunday, July 31st, I received a call from the sitter saying they could not find my dog Ava. They searched for 2 hours trying to find her to no avail. My husband and daughter were on their way back and got home before me. My daughter immediately designed and made posters as recommended on HomeAgain.com. It also advised to make posters/flyers and saturate the neighborhood with them as soon as possible. I contacted the local shelters and signed on to HomeAgain.com and filled out the on-line form to get the word out of her disappearance. The next day, Monday afternoon at 2:30 I get a call from a neighbor who said she may have found my dog. She said the dog appeared at her doorstep on Sunday around 10:00 a.m.! They took her in and was about to take her to the pound but this particular day they were closed. She saw the flier and called my number and sure enough it was Ava. We were so happy and other th...

I Never Gave Up Hope and Now He's Back!!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:51:20 AM

Oscar went missing June 28th 2011. I immediately went to the HomeAgain website and printed up posters with his picture,etc. I first placed them on mailboxes all over our neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. Knowing he was a cat who loved being out at night, I also drove around neighborhoods after it became dark hoping if he heard my voice he would come out. I never gave up hope after hearing stories from others about cats that had missing for a number of days. There is great info on the HomeAgain website to help you find your cat or dog based on their personality and if they are an indoor or outdoor pet. This was VERY helpful. Using this info, I fanned out to neighborhoods farther away, but still in our area and placed more posters on mailboxes. After a month of hoping we received a call at 6:15 this AM by a woman in one of those more distant neighborhoods, that she just saw a cat that fit his description on the poster that she saw on her mailbox!!! It was HIM! Thank you HomeAgain for all your help.

Dang That Dog is Fast!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:45:51 PM

Our story is a common one - side gate, no collar on, no one watching. Needless to say our dog is quite fast and has extreme endurance. Thanks to HomeAgain for the fax blast to the local vets. One local office matched our pup with the picture. They placed a call to HomeAgain, who called us and viola... arrangements were made and our precocious pooch is home acting like nothing is out of the ordinary. A mere 7 hours after our call to HomeAgain and our dog is back eating his dinner with us! We are eternally grateful to you HomeAgain. Thank you.

The Little HomeAgain Yellow Tags Work!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:52:54 PM

We adopted Luke #5 through Central California Lab Rescue in January 2011. He was young, wild, loved people and loved to run even more! Especially if he can sit in somebody's lap. I received a phone call from HomeAgain while I was at work. I was informed that Luke had been found. When I made contact with our neighbor I was told that Luke had climbed into her lap and was very friendly - and very satisfied at their home. They told me I could remain at work and pick up Luke when I got home. Ironically, after we adopted Luke, he lost his license and other identification tags. All that remained on his collar was his yellow HomeAgain tag, the sole reason Luke was able to return home to us!

Reunited With My Baby!

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 25, 2011 1:32:26 PM

I was separated from my pet while walking her. I spent 3 hours of searching for her in the grueling Florida heat, my family, co-workers and even her breeder were apart of all the efforts. Finally I received a call, it was HomeAgain! Although my pet's membership elapsed you still called me! Shortly after that I was reunited with Cheyenne! I can't thank you enough!

Fireworks Can Be Traumatizing

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 25, 2011 11:13:46 AM

On vacation with the family in Galveston, Texas we were all enjoying fishing on the pier having a real good time. Without notice fireworks started with an extremely loud bang. Trapper our dog new dog of 9 weeks was startled and bolted like lightning. We chased after him but could not find him he is so fast. Some neighbors said they saw him 4 blocks away at the store. By the time we got in the truck and to the store some other people told us he was running so fast by them they were scared. We searched for him for 2 days solid. We finally decided that someone had him and since he was such a good dog they decided to keep him and love him. We knew he had a tag with our phone number on his collar and if someone wanted to give him back they would call. At the end of the 2nd day when we finally decided to stop driving the neighborhood and wait for a phone call, the phone did ring. Our dog was found! He was hot, hungry and hurt. The pads of his feet were blood red, he could not walk anymore. One of his e...

Found in 2 hours!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:04:55 PM

Lola got out of our backyard gate after the new landscapers failed to repair our fence properly. She was gone leaving her black lab brother in the backyard alone. We knew she had only been gone for 20 mins, but had no clue in what direction she could have gone. With the help of neighbors, we combed the neighborhood and surrounding areas for an hour and a half, but to no avail. Finally an unknown number came across my cell phone and when I answered it was a local vet clinic calling to say they had Lola! When I asked how, they said one of their veterinarians had picked her up off a busy road nearby on the way into work. Once she got to the vet clinic she promptly scanned Lola for a microchip. When they got Lola's chip number they got my information from HomeAgain and were able to call me! WHAT a relief! We will forevermore ALWAYS microchip all our dogs with HomeAgain! THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for reuniting us with LOLA!

Three Years Later, Kiwi is Found!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:37:50 PM

While on vacation , I purchased Kiwi, a Chihuahua, in 2008 in Puerto Rico. I later brought him home in San Antonio and he disappeared a couple of months later. I had no luck finding him. Three years later I recieved notification that he was found in Humble, TX. Apparently he ran away was taken to a vet in Humble where he was scanned. I was notified and immediately drove for 6 hours round trip to pick him up. I was so happy and I'm grateful to HomeAgain.

Back Home So Quickly!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:42:22 PM

I was about 20 minutes from home when I got the call that someone had found my dog. What??! She was in the house when I left. The operator from HomeAgain put Grant on the line. Turns out Grant is a neighbor and he found Lola wandering the street, in about 90 degree weather. I was able to give him access to our home to get Lola back in side. Turns out my husband had let her out, and forgot about her when he left the house! So thrilled that we have HomeAgain! That charm around Lola's neck worked like a charm!

Our Dog Found After 1 Week Away!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:05:42 PM

Pete was found last night. HomeAgain notified us by email after animal control services identified him by scanning his chip. His tags had been carefully removed indicating that someone had intended to keep him. He must have escaped and was found dirty, hungry and unmarked. We can not believe he is home and HomeAgain has our deepest gratitude.

Darcee is Home!!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:22:18 PM

Our dog was stolen from our front yard only a few days ago while we were home. I filed a police report and started calling the HomeAgain network to get the ball rolling about alerts and emails. Three days passed by and still nothing. Finally I got a call from the local Sheriff's office that a dog had been located and taken to a veterinary clinic to see if it was microchipped. They scanned and they found that she had been reported stolen. Our infomation came up and they called us to see if she was our dog. If it wasn't for the microchip she had the Sheriff said they would have just taken her to the local humane society and tried to place her. Instead, she has been reunited with her family and we are all in tears! We are SOOOOO glad to have her home! Welcome Home Darcee!!

Twinkie On The Loose!

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 18, 2011 11:36:21 AM

We recently moved to a new house with a new phone number-and I had forgotten to update Twinkie's HomeAgain information. We live on a very very busy rural road where cars zip by at 50 mph. Our house is on an acre which is COMPLETELY fenced. My husband let Twinkie out early on July 12, while I was still in bed. At 7:30 he came in and said she wasn't in the backyard and we needed to go out NOW and look for her. I was sick with worry, I just anticipated that the worst had happened and was in a panic, especially because I immediately recalled that I had left the gate open a little when I did some gardening. I drove up and down the road looking while Tim combed the woods behind the back fence with no luck. I happened to be at home to see if Tim had found her, around 8:30 when my phone rang-It was my sister, the one who had microchipped Twinkie and was listed as the alternate contact. She had gotten a call from the local animal shelter. Someone on the road had seen her, picked her up and taken her there. At the she...

We Got Cooky!

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 18, 2011 10:21:46 AM

It was around the 4th of July, and my dog hates the noise. My son brought the dumpsters into the back and forgot to close the gate. Well Cooky walked away. With everyone around us, stooting off fireworks, she ran and we couldn't find her. The next day around 9 am I received a call for from our pound. The first thing I heard was, "We got Cooky," I was so glad, I could hardly wait to go get her. The person at the pound said that the checked to see if she had a chip, and she did. I am so glad that I got that for her! That you once again!!

My Baby Boy Is Home!

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 15, 2011 3:33:12 AM

Brodie went missing because a gate was left open. He was gone for over 24 hours! I cannot even begin to describe the fear and sadness I was feeling. Brodie has been the man of this house for the last 7 years and he is a HUGE part of this family. When I heard the phone ring and got the call that he had been picked up and scanned by animal control I burst into tears!!! I rushed down to the pound and picked him up. It was the best drive home!!! He is now back where he belongs, laying on the cold floor and happy as can be! Thank you for bringing my baby boy home!

Gretel's Homecoming!!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:46:29 PM

Our cat Gretel is usually an inside cat but we do let her out daily to roam the backyard but she always comes back. One night Gretel didn't come back and I searched for her all night and all the next day! I called Home Again and they told me someone reported the finding of Gretel but they couldn't release the name or number but told us she was found on our street. So we went door to door of every house on our loop and we found her. Thank you Home Again!!

Almost Gone 2 Years!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:50:00 PM

I had adopted Rosco when he was three months old in 2008 and I had him for two years. We were inseparable, everywhere I went Rosco was right there with me! I had moved in with an ex-boyfriend and two years alter we broke up and Rosco went missing. I knew that my ex had taken Rosco and given him away but I could not prove it to the police. No one would tell me where Rosco was but I still had hope and prayed everyday, Rosco was like my child! After praying for two years I received a phone call one day that Rosco was going to be put up for adoption because his owners could not keep him any longer. Long story short the new owners of Rosco knew he had a HomeAgain Micropchip and would not bring him to a shelter. After all of these years I was reunited with Rosco and I never let him out of my sight! Thank you HomeAgain!!

Just A Little Way From Home

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 08, 2011 11:29:17 AM

July 4th 2011 my precious Dixie, 4 year old mini Dachshund, got out of our backyard and ran away trying to get away from all the noise the fireworks made. She was petrified of the sound but we let her out for a little to "relieve" herself along with our other two dogs, Frankie and Minnie. They were unattended for only 5 minutes and she found a hole in the fence and got out. When we opened the door to let them in she was already gone. I ran to open the front door and yelled for her but nothing. It was night time so it was dark outside but I continued to walk and drive around the neighborhood yelling for her but I found nothing. The next day I immediately updated my home address and contact information linked to Dixie's chip on the HomeAgain website and reported her missing. I also posted flyers on light posts around the neighborhood and went door to door as well handing them out but still no trace of Dixie. On 7/6/11 I received a call from HomeAgain saying someone had reported seeing her on the train t...

Not Far From Our Home Or Hearts, But Far

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 06, 2011 8:23:08 PM

After the neighbors on the block were shooting off fireworks, Milo was startled and shimmied his way under the gate. We searched for almost 20 hours straight, to no avail. We prayed and hoped that he was okay, not only from the elements but from other predatory animals considering he is only 4 pounds. We got a few leads, but they didnt produce Milo. Today the shelter posted a new yorkie matching his description, but another heartbreak, he was not Milo. However, moments later, we received the call that set our hearts at ease, Milo had been rescued the night he got loose and the family was waiting for someone to post a flyer. Thankfully HomeAgain provided a preformatted flyer, which we posted all over the area, in hopes that he would be found and returned to us!!! That is exactly what happened. Thank God for answering our prayers!

Squeek's Home!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 06, 2011 3:48:52 PM

Our little dog Squeek is terrified of loud noises. This past 4th of July weekend, one of our neighbors decided to ignite some fireworks and they spooked Squeek so badly that he ran away. I initiated a search immediately. Two days later, I received a call from HomeAgain that he might have been spotted. Sure enough it was Squeek! We're glad to have him home.

My Best Friend "BOY" is Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 05, 2011 6:18:27 PM

Searched for my best friend, BOY, for 2 days and had all but given up hope when HomeAgain called me and connected me with a very nice lady who had noticed BOY wondering around the front of her office. After a few hours she opened the door and in he came. They soon became friends and she used the tag on BOY's collar to notify HomeAgain that she had found my best friend. I will be forever grateful to the lady and HomeAgain.

Return of the Prodigal Beagle

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 05, 2011 5:32:12 PM

Our beloved and pampered Gracie was frightened by fireworks, and bolted for parts unknown. After hours of searching, my husband suggested using HomeAgain for dispersing the news of our missing beagle. A helpful consultant assisted me, and soon information was posted. After a sleepless night, I began printing and distributing flyers from your site. A call arrived from HomeAgain about 13 hours after Gracie's disappearance. I was told that a woman had called the 800 number stating she had a dog of her description; I was connected with her and after comparing notes, it was determined that Gracie had indeed been found (quite a distance away and across a very busy street). In addition to having my precious beagle back, I had the pleasure of meeting a true angel, one who took my special doggie in and made a great efforet to locate her family. We are eternally grateful to all involved!

Our Darling Darla is Home!

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 04, 2011 8:39:08 PM

Panic strikes when your dog goes missing. What do I do - what can I do? I knew getting posters up ASAP was important. The HomeAgain website advised that the posters be fluorescent and waterproof. As it will in Georgia, it rained three times after putting up the posters (we used sheet protectors). After approximately a LONG 36 hours of missing, trekking miles around our woods and hanging HomeAgain styled posters, we received a call from HomeAgain! They connected us with somebody who had spotted our dog. He remembered seeing our poster which was a walk from his home but he took the time to contact HomeAgain. Thank you!!!! Darla is exhausted but safe in her favorite spot!

Before We Even Knew He Left He Was Back!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:06:52 PM

We have a lovable black lab named Harley. Harley used to be a "runner" and when he was a year old we decided to get him microchiped. Tonight that turned out to be the best decision of your lives! I recieved a phone call tonight saying someone found my dog. Ironically, my husband and I thought he was in our bedroom sleeping. My husband was cleaning out our garage earlier and I guess Harley decided he wanted to go for a stroll. Thankfully a neighbor up the street found him and called the HomeAgain number on his tag. Within minutes I recieved a phone call saying he had been found and they gave me the person's contact info. Needless to say we were confused at first! "What do you mean he's found, he's not missing" came out of our mouths a few times! After gettting Harley back home where he belonged we wondered why they didn't just look at his ID tag for his address to bring him back. Apparently his ID tag fell off and all that was left was his HomeAgain tag. Thank goodness everything turned out well! I...

Good Samaritan Brings Bijou Home!!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:41:11 AM

Bijou is a curious little lovebug... Perhaps this is why he decided to find the one weakness in our home's fence and take a stroll around the neighborhood. We posted about 250 signs and engaged HomeAgain to put out the word to vets and shelters. Three days later, a neighbor was driving down a road near our house behind a driver she suspected to be drunk. She saw in the distance what she thought was a white cat and was scared that the driver might hit him. Thank goodness he moved out of the way, but the close call made her stop and help. She immediately noticed that the 'cat' was really a Maltese dog. She took him home, gave him a few baths and a lot of love. The next day, she saw the HomeAgain signs up in the neighborhood and brought Bijou right home! What a wonderful neighbor! I am happy to have my little love back and the fence is being repaired this weekend so this will never happen again!

Away from Home & I'm Still Rescuing!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:50:12 AM

Thanks HomeAgain, We Are So Happy!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:38:56 PM

A homeowner about 1.5 miles away from our home had been putting water and food out for a beautiful Golden Retriever that she saw hanging our the pond on her property. He wouldn't get closer than 3-4 feet to her, but she was worried about him. He would play with her children, but wouldn't come in the house. She saw one of the HomeAgain Lost Pet flyer's posted on the window of a nearby convenience store and told the clerk that she thought she knew where the dog was. The clerk gave her my son's phone number (on a larger home made poster that we had made) and she called my son and he went to her house. They looked together for Monty for about 20 minutes and found him. He was wet and tired, but all the neighbors in that area had been feeding/watering him. The high yesterday was 106, so you can imagine how worried we were. She mentioned to my son that the HomeAgain Lost Pet flyer really stood out and it was obvious that someone loved this dog very much.

Collar-less Daisy is back!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:05:12 PM

After taking Daisy to be groomed, we realized her collar didn't smell too good so we removed it and ordered her another. Before the new collar arrived, collar-less Daisy made her escape. She ended up about 2 miles up the road in Marion living with a nice family for about four days. Of course I contacted HomeAgain and put out the alert. The family contacted the animal shelter, the shelter scanned Daisy and the nice family returned her to me. Thank you HomeAgain!

Put Up The HomeAgain Posters!!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:42:01 PM

We called HomeAgain this morning around11am reporting our dog missing. They advised us that even though Maverick is microchipped, that we should go around the neighborhood and put up posters. 15 minutes later we received the posters from them and immediately went around hanging up all the posters. Well, Maverick was brought home tonight at 8PM. I just want to say a very big THANK YOU :) to HomeAgain. I will definatley recommend this company to anyone I know that is a pet owner. THANK YOU for bringing home my BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With Love from Across the Ocean

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:22:01 PM

I moved with my husband to Hawaii on military orders. Hawaii has a very strict pet import policy and my Lexi did not have enough time between her last rabies shot and the time she was going to arrive in Hawaii. Instead of bringing her and having to put her in quarantine, we decided to leave her with my brother and sister-in-law in Idaho for the next couple of months. One day I got a call from HomeAgain saying my girl had been found! I hadn't even know she was lost. I immediately called my sister-in-law who apologized and rushed to pick up my dog. Her dog had gone missing too, but did not have a tag, luckily the same people found both dogs!

HomeAgain Helps All The Way From Italia!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, June 25, 2011 3:01:54 AM

Living overseas I didn't think the HomeAgain service would work, but I kept Snoopy's pet recovery tag on his collar. On June 24th my Snoopy went missing. A neighbor in my apartment complex found him, called the HomeAgain number on his tag and viola!!! My contact information wasn't updated but my parents info was still correct. I'm out walking the streets of Italy when I get a call from my mother telling me Snoopy has been found!!!! I couldn't believe that this service worked millions of miles away and that Snoopy was right around the corner in a neighbor's house!!!

Baby Found!!

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 24, 2011 3:32:44 PM

Our mama poodle disappeared last evening just before dark. She escaped from our yard. We looked for her and called to her until almost midnight. This morning, I woke up at 6AM and reported her missing at the HomeAgain website. By 1145 that same morning, we had already received a call from HomeAgain that she had been found. She had only made it a short distance up the street and some neighbors had put her up for the night. I surely appreciate them being honest and taking her in for us and for having her checked for a microchip. Thanks to the folks at HomeAgain for letting us know so quickly that she was safe. We apprecitate you and our neighbors for taking good care of her. She is now home safe and reunited with her family. Deepest gratitude to you all!! :)

A Mircle Happened In My Life Time

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:09:06 PM

It was late on Thursday when our last pool guests left. Assuming that they closed the pool gate, as they know we have dogs, we went into the house. My wife went to the bedroom and I went to the living room. We assumed that Peanut was with the other person and Puddin was definately with my wife. Three hours later, my wife realized that Peanut is not with her and rushes in to get me. Peanut was not with me! We walked for hours around the community and found nothing! The first thing we did was to contact HomeAgain.com. The site was easy and quick to setup (lost dog). Even though the yearly renewal was late, we were still able to access and update. We printed the HomeAgain posters and plastered them everywhere. We checked the shelters in our area and the Vets, too. They all received a fax with Peanuts info. Luckily, a neighbor found Peanut and contacted HomeAgain! God bless those who care for lost dogs until the owners are found. AND GOD BLESS THOSE WHO WORK AT HOMEAGAIN. WORTH EVERY PENNY!!

Microchips DO work!

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 20, 2011 4:16:18 PM

I lost my pet this weekend on Friday. My husband argued that a microchip would not help the recovery as it was not a GPS locator. However, on Sunday morning I received a call from HomeAgain! Someone had found my pet and called the 1866 # on the tag! I am so grateful as my dog is blind from one eye and needs special care! Thank you so much HomeAgain!

Enzo - The Lucky!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:07:06 PM

Our puggle Enzo was with us attending our friends' graduation party in Cream Ridge, NJ, which is about an hour away from our home. We were on their large, fenced in deck relaxing and enjoying the day. After we were there a couple of hours, someone began setting off firecrackers. Enzo is frightened by loud noises, and, while we were trying to get him into the house, someone opened the gate on the deck, and he immediately shot through the opening and took off into the woods. This was about 7:30 in the evening. Several of us immediately ventured into the woods calling for him, trying to follow him. We spent hours walking, driving, and generally canvassing the neighborhood, speaking to neighbors, local businesses, etc. There is a fairly busy county road nearby, but we didn't think he would cross it, so we concentrated our search in the woods. We gave up looking for him around 11:30 pm. That night I created a lost pet report at HomeAgain.com, updated our contact information, and printed the lost pet poster...

Long time no see!

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 17, 2011 4:39:34 PM

Marley, our cat, disappeared about four years ago from our home in the NE Heights of Albuquerque. We spent months putting up posters, checking the Humane Society, and asking around trying to find him. We figured he must have gotten hit by a car or eaten by a coyote. We all missed him, especially his twin brother Cosmo. Today I got a phone call from animal control in a completely different area of town 25 miles and a bridge across the river away. They found our Marley and were able to locate and contact me because of his microchip registration. Thanks HomeAgain!

HomeAgain Came Through For Me

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:06:53 PM

My Boston Terrier got lost last night during a thunderstorm. We didn't realize she was gone until we couldn't find her in the AM. My first thought was that she had her HomeAgain tag on, the same tag that I orignally got. Unfortunately, I had let my membership expire. Luckily I was able to renew it early that morning. I got a call from HomeAgain about 1 1/2 hours later. Someone had found Marie, called HomeAgain, and they called me at my new number. Don't ever let your membership expire and keep your tag readable! I couldn't have asked any more from HomeAgain. Best service I have ever had.

Tasha Is Home At Last

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 10, 2011 5:07:53 PM

I was working late one night and had my friend let Tasha out. I guess Tasha got spooked and took off. Every time my friend would try to get Tasha she ran more. We spent all night searching and putting up the HomeAgain lost flyers. Hours later, I finally got a call from my boss and mom telling me she was at the shelter, who had scanned her and received the poster. They found her all the way on Majestic Ave, which is about twenty miles away. Poor thing must have ran all night! But thanks to HomeAgain I have her back. Best money I have ever spent.

Lost Jack..Again!

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 10, 2011 2:52:03 AM

Lifesaver...that is what HomeAgain is. If my dog who always manages to get out is not the test. This service comes highly recommended. This last time was the scariest; Jack dug a hole in backyard and escaped leaving his collar behind. We had no way of tracking him down. About three or four hours after posting the posters from the HomeAgain website we got a call somebody found Jack! This service has truly been a blessing. As much as I get so scared when Jack disappears, every single time HomeAgain calls me. Thanks...again!

Fast Results

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:29:56 AM

My dog was recovered the day after I called Homeagain to report her missing. I quickly requested the services they offered - to post her profile and picture to all the vets, shelters and rescuers. The very next day I got a call from HomeAgain to connect me with a vet who saw my dog when a lady brought my sweet Bella in to get her chip read. The vet gave me the contact information of the lady and after some driving my Bella was reunited with her family. Great services; second time they helped us recover Bella!!

Daisy is HomeAgain After 7 Months!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 07, 2011 1:12:52 PM

In July of 2010 I purchased a mixed fox terrier Chihuahua puppy. We named her Daisy. Daisy quickly won my heart over as well as the hearts of anyone who interacted with her. Her sweet gentle demeanor and insatiable need for affection melted anyone’s heart. My two sons and I fell in love with Daisy and she quickly became an important part of our family. In November of 2010 my girlfriend was involved in a car accident with Daisy in the car. While police and paramedics tended to my girlfriend, Daisy was lost. We didn’t know if she was injured or even alive. Police on the scene told us they never even saw a dog at the accident scene. My twelve year old son and I combed the area the following day, posted flyers and tirelessly searched. As the week progressed we were able to track down eye witnesses to the accident but all our efforts were fruitless. No one saw or has seen Daisy. It was heartbreaking to say the least. My sons and I cried bitter tears refusing to give up hope. For months we staked out the area h...

Brandy Found In TN After 5 Years Missing

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 07, 2011 9:12:37 AM

I went to visit family in Chattanooga, TN during Thanksgiving of 2005 from Miami, FL. I had just adopted Brandy, a cocker mix, about 2 months prior to the trip. She was fine during the trip in the car. When we arrived, she freaked out by the greetings and hugs from my cousin. She pulled her head out of her collar and ran from the front of the house. It was dark so she disappeared immediately. We went walking and driving around the neighborhood, looking for her and calling her name. She was not found. I left notices with the county humane society and the local animal clinic. I spoke to neighbors and no one had seen her. After two days, we were not able to find her, and I returned home to Miami. I made flyers with her photo and contact information and mailed them to some of the local businesses to post by their doors or registers. I received a few calls, but none of them was for my dog. On April 29, 2011, I received a call from McKamey Animal Care center in Chattanooga that a dog was found, that fit Bran...

Friendly Noodles Was Too Curious!

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 06, 2011 11:57:57 AM

I rescued Noodles from the Town of Babylon Animal Shelter about a year and a half ago and adopted him to a wonderful woman named Maria. His microchip was registered to his foster mom Renne and never changed over because Maria does not know much English. In a terrible windstorm part of Maria's fence was leaned over and Curious Noodles found his way out. Renee received a call from Deer Park Animal Hospital that they had Noodles. She quickly called me and I darted out of work to get to the Animal Hospital. In the meantime I called Maria's son to tell him Noodles was safe. Noodles managed to cross over a 6 lane main road, Deer Park Avenue, and because this little fella is so friendly, he went to the 711 Parking Lot where a Vet Tech getting her morning coffee saw him in the parking lot. She immediately called him over and he got into her car. She took him to her office and scanned him. Meanwhile, Maria was walking the entire neighborhood for hours in the rain looking for him. When I arrived at her home wit...

You Get What You Bargain for

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 06, 2011 11:01:27 AM

Shiloh is our weather dog. He can sense bad weather coming before it hits the news! He is EXTREMELY scared of thunder and lightning. He is the most docile dog you'll ever see, but will scratch and chew his way out of anything to get to safety when he knows a BIG ONE'S coming! We have tried EVERYTHING we have heard of to help him to no avail. This spring, a storm was two hours away, and Shiloh broke loose at about 3:00 AM. I never put a collar on him, only a full body harness. He pulled completely out of his harness, leaving his tags behind. We of course, went looking as soon as we saw he was missing. This was on a Monday, by Friday we got the call from the county shelter. We also got the e-mail from HomeAgain! It seems Shiloh ran to a house a half-mile away. The people that took him in had full intention of keeping him. They had already re-named him! While they were at work they kept him in the bathroom, not knowing how he would do in the house alone. What they hadn't counted on was his fear of storms. ...

Once He Was Lost, Now He Is Found!

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 03, 2011 12:14:36 AM

Several years ago we adopted sweet Barkley, a broken-coated Parson Russell Terrier, from a friend of mine, Pam via PetFinders. He fit into our household perfectly... so sweet, lovable and kind. About a year ago, Barkley escaped out of our yard in pursuit of a cat. We searched and searched our neighborhood for days, made phone calls to the pound daily, hung up posters... all with no success. After about 2 weeks, we just knew we would never see our beloved boy again. Then, one afternoon, I received a call from Pam asking if Barkley was missing. I told her he was. How did she know?! She had received a call from a vet whose office was about 20 miles north of our home. A woman had found Barkley hidden under a truck and brought him to the Vet’s office to get scanned. They called Pam due to Barkley's HomeAgain chip being originally registered to her. I immediately went to pick up my long lost boy! I was so excited! HomeAgain is invaluable to us. Without it, our beloved boy would have been lost forever... or worse.. ...

After 5 Years The Phone Finally Rings!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:30:29 AM

Five years ago, I purchased a cute 10 week old Pomeranian puppy for my 16 year old daughter as we had moved into a new place. I thought a new little buddy would help the transition and keep her from being lonely. She named him Dante. He followed her around like the proverbial puppy he was. They were inseparable. A few weeks later, my Daughter let the dog out into the back yard when she took a shower. When she got out, she went to let Dante back into the house but he was gone. The gardeners had opened the gate to mow the back lawn and he slipped away when they were not looking. After a lot of tears and searching of the neighborhood, we did the normal reward posters and waited for the phone to ring, but nothing. A couple of weeks later, I got out the papers he came with and registered his chip online with HomeAgain. Time went by and we would often see other Pom's and think about where he might be. I even would look at online pet placement blogs just to see if I'd spot him. I never did. Then today June ...

Missing for 5 days!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:18:55 AM

My dog, Kia, and my dad's dog, Casey, went missing on a Tuesday night around 7pm. Casey came back that night at 10pm - without Kia. I went driving around that night looking for her and no luck. I thought she would be back the next morning when I woke up, but sadly she wasn't! My family and friends spent the next five days looking for Kia. We searched everywhere within a 5-10 mile radius. Every humane society, animal control, and vet in the area was contacted. I also updated my status on HomeAgain to LOST. Finally, on the following Sunday at noon I received a call from a HomeAgain representative stating that there was an individual on the phone who had found my dog! It turns out that my dog was sunbathing on their deck that morning! The owners of the house tried to get close to her but she wouldn't let them, so they took a picture of her and zoomed in on the camera to get the number off of her tag. That's how they were able to call someone - how amazing is that! Thank you HomeAgain and the family fr...

Silly Old Sophie

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 30, 2011 10:59:20 PM

Sophie, who is 14, half blind/deaf, has bad back legs and a form of doggie dementia, is an explorer, and managed to sneak out of the fence on Saturday (5/28) afternoon. We immediately placed a call to HomeAgain, who got on the ball, and had bulletins sent out, and posters up within the hour. This evening (Monday 5/30), we received a call from the local shelter, an employee recognized Sophie from the HomeAgain bulletin. Thank you so much HomeAgain, for helping us get our silly old Sophie back where she belongs.

Found After 8 Hour Adventure

Found Pets Home — Sunday, May 29, 2011 9:43:18 PM

This morning around 8:30, while packing up to go to a big family picnic, Chip, our 5 year old toy poodle, slipped past my husband through an open door...we think. We have only had him for 9 days, as we just adopted him from our county shelter. We all cried and cried. After driving the area for an hour and yelling his name, I called HomeAgain to report him missing and tearfully printed out the "Lost Dog" posters. I hung the posters up and spoke to neighbors with the help of my sister. Seven and a half hours after we assumed Chip ran off, we got the call. It was a representative from HomeAgain and she said something about having contact from a person who believed they had found Chip, but most of it was really a blur, as I was just too elated to think straight. After verifying who I was and who the missing dog was, she kindly connected me with the person who found Chip. Even though we had scoured the home area several times, he was 10 houses down the street and had been found within a couple hundred f...

Long Lost George Comes Home!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:27:24 PM

On July 21, 2009 our almost 9 year old cat George went missing. George lived inside ever since he was a 6 week old kitten. He would sometimes go out only to sit right on the porch crying to come back in. On that fateful day George somehow slipped out of the house and disappeared without a trace. My girls made flyers and hung them up around the neighborhood, I checked the pound and placed an ad up on our local news website's classified section but no luck at all. For the first six months I checked the pound once a week. I had told the kids that he was probably never coming back. I even checked at all the local adoption events in case he showed up. After this long I had really figured we would never see George again. On Thursday of this week, I received a phone call from a vets office saying that they had a cat registered to me and that if George sounded right. I was so shocked; I didn't even remember I had micro chipped him. I told them that he had been missing for almost 2 yrs and they couldn’t believe it. I ...

Ebony is Home, Again!

Found Pets Home — Friday, May 27, 2011 1:07:03 PM

I left Ebony in the backyard while I was at work, and she escaped. I came home to find her missing! I drove around the neighborhood, questioned neighbors, made posters, and walked around calling her name for hours. Even when it was dark I didn't give up. I drove around for a while longer with my brights on calling her name. Hours later I finally called it quits. The next morning I called Animal Services to see if she had been turned in, but they said not to their knowledge. A half hour later, they called back to say they had her! They had scanned her chip and found my information through HomeAgain. I left work early and picked her up. She is now safe and sound at home again. (No pun intended) Thanks HomeAgain!

Found Thirty-Two Hours Later

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:58:10 PM

Sophie was taken from our yard on 5/24/11 around 11:30 pm. We were frantically looking for her when a neighbor told us she saw a man take her. I called HomeAgain around 1:00 am and they took all her information. Later that morning they sent me fliers which my kids and friends help us put up all around the neighborhood. Today at 8:00 HomeAgain called me, Sophie was found, within a mile of my home! She was on the street without her collar. A lady that saw the flyer, got her and called HomeAgain. I’m so happy to have my baby back... thank you HomeAgain!!!!!

Thank you!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:05:34 PM

I had no idea that I had to register Micah's microchip. After searching online for the best place to register - I opted for HomeAgain. Less than an hour after registering - our local shelter received the notification from HomeAgain. I found Micah on the shelter's website and called them right away, that's when the agent informed me that they were already trying to get in touch with us. Thank you so much! My family is complete again.

Dog-proof yard, my fanny!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:25:25 PM

A month after we got our sweet UHMAH (yoU Had Me At Hello) from the rescue, my mom took him to visit a friend in L.A. They went out for a couple of hours, and came home to find him gone, and found his collar stuck on the fence where he'd gotten out. Little white dog, un-collared, middle of L.A. on a Saturday night. Needless to say, we spent the weekend sleepless and anxious. My mom posted hundreds of flyers for blocks in every direction, but we were not hopeful. Monday morning, I got the call at work; he had been found alive and way relatively okay. He'd been hit by a car, but was incredibly lucky that some wonderful people were nearby. A great lady scooped him up out of the road (getting nipped for her trouble, due to his pain and fear), and a gentleman with a nearby business accompanied her to the vet clinic, that was just closing, and offered to pay for care if the owners could not be found. The clinic stabilized his two front broken legs and settled him for the weekend, but didn't think to scan him unt...

HomeAgain Microchip Saved My Pup!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:38:39 PM

I registered my dog with HomeAgain just minutes before he was brought in to a vet center and scanned. I was under the impression that the animal shelter had already registered the chip. I'd had Charlie just a few days when he jumped off of my porch and ran. A dozen of my neighbors helped me comb the streets late into the night. We hung fliers around the neighborhood. By morning, Charlie still hadn't shown up. HomeAgain was amazing! The microchip worked. Many thanks!

BooBoo's Home!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:15:04 PM

BooBoo, our beloved tom cat, went out on Dec 13, as he always did, for his morning stretch. We went to get him a few hours later and he was nowhere to be found. We searched the neighborhood, posted signs, talked to neighbors, and searched the shelters for weeks and weeks. Christmas came and went without our dearest friend. It was the saddest winter. Many days our family reminisced, tears and laughs, about this amazing animal that we had adopted from the streets 5 years ago. By spring, we prayed that BooBoo was in a safe place, most likely in heaven. My 17 year old cat, still looking for him each day out the window, has lost weight and our vet said that in addition to her aging, she was probably a bit depressed without her old friend BooBoo. That's the end of the sad part, now to the HomeAgain part. My phone rang yesterday. It was a local vet and they told me they had my cat! He was being cared for by a family 5 miles away from us and they decided to bring him to their vet and have him checked out. That's ...

Welcome Home Milo

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:07:24 AM

Milo was lost and went to the house in the same spot as ours but in another cul-de-sac just one over. Daniel called HomeAgain from the flyers I placed all over the area and he walked Milo home. Milo was excited; ears were back tail wagging and non-stop licking my face. I can truly say that Milo was taken care of while on his little journey. Daniel and his roommate where awaken by Milo's scratches at the door Sunday night, they bathed and fed him. I appreciate all the help and especially Daniel and HomeAgain.

50 Fliers Later and Lucky was Home

Found Pets Home — Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:01:56 PM

Our family dog Lucky went missing 5/14 and I reported it on HomeAgain.com. We searched for house then it got too late. Next morning HomeAgain had emailed me a link of a flier they created. I just uploaded a photo and made sure the contact info was correct and made 50 copies. I posted the fliers all over the neighborhood. Three hours of posting fliers, we finally got to our last flier. The 50th flier was just hung up on a stop sign near our house and all I was thinking was "God I hope his works". Within seconds a man called to say a lady had our dog. I drove to his house and there was a flier right in front of his house. He said he saw the flier and called right away. He pointed us in the direction of where the lady said she lived. The very first house we stopped at was the house that had our dog!! What a sigh of relief!! He is out baby boy and we love him so much!!! So glad he is home!!!

HomeAgain Works

Found Pets Home — Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:31:41 PM

We were in the garage repairing a piece of furniture. We being, Pumpkin, my husband, and myself. My husband needed my help for just a minute. We turned around and Pumpkin was gone. It was a heart break, but a neighbor down the street saw the report in an email. He called HomeAgain and we walked down to retrieve Pumpkin.

Rex Is HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:19:17 PM

Rex went missing on Super Bowl Sunday 2011. My family, friends and I were looking for him for days. After 2 weeks of searching day and night, we decided it was best to just give up for our little girl's sake. You see Rex was given to her as a gift and he was her best friend! One morning in April, we got the call from HomeAgain, Rex had been found. A little neglected, a little dirty, very tired but extremely happy to see us! Thank you HomeAgain for all that you do and for making my daughter smile again! Now all of our pets are monitored by HomeAgain!

Best Birthday Present

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:50:22 PM

About 2-3 weeks ago our dog, Hiro got out by accident. The mail man came in the gate and when he saw our dog get up; he ran and left the door open. We went down every street and every park, but no luck. Finally they found him about a few train station stops before heading to Manhattan. Today, May 10th, we decided to go out and eat dinner for my husband’s birthday, when he got the call at work that they had found him using the microchip on his back. He left work and went straight to the grooming salon where they had taken care of him and got him ready for us to pick up. We are so glad to have HomeAgain as our reliable back up. Worth every penny. I recommend it to anyone who has a pet.

Someone Found My Dog!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:06:59 PM

I only had Butta for a few days and he was beginning to show signs of separation anxiety. I had gated him in the kitchen and ran out to hit the gym. About 2 hours later I received a phone call from HomeAgain telling me that someone had found my dog! He was locked in the house when I left. Butta had gotten out of the kitchen and into the bedroom, where he opened a cracked window, ate the screen and got out. He attempted another escape through the front window, eating the molding and cracking the window. I'm happy to say he's crated when we leave the house now, but without HomeAgain who knows what would have happened to him! Although he's a mush, a pit-bull roaming around by himself doesn't have much of a chance! Thank you HomeAgain!

The Escape Artist

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:29:04 AM

Mario likes to go exploring and he has found some very clever ways to escape the boredom of the backyard, like the steps of a pool slide, walking the brick ledge around the house, digging under the fence, and pushing aside the chicken wire that filled the space between the fence and the house. But he always came home. This time he pushed out the screen in a bedroom window that was open and he did not come back. My Dad called me at work and said "Mario's out." Luckily, I was able to take a break and dash home, praying that he would have returned by the time I got there or he would quickly be found running down the street. I drove the streets where we had taken our walks and where he had explored in the past, calling his name, but there was no sign of the mischievous little guy. I returned home, worried that he might be hurt or accidently locked in a yard. At that point I called the city animal control which is a voice mail system that only allows you to leave a message, and I called HomeAgain to repor...

Thank You For Finding Their Owners

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 09, 2011 5:29:54 PM

Yesterday my friend, daughter and I were driving on Nellis Airforce Base and just saw two dogs running from base out onto Craig Rd. where the traffic was quite heavy. Nobody seemed to care so we turned onto Craig Rd. and my friend stopped her car to let me out. I really thought I was going to see them get hit by a car, because they were running into traffic. I called out to them and miraculously they ran right towards me, so I got a hold of their collars. It was a big male black Lab (my friend thought I was going to be eaten alive, because he barked franticly at me) and medium sized female husky-mix. We managed to get them in the car and drove back on base where I contacted HomeAgain, who then connected me to the father of the owner. It turned out that the owner lived on base and didn't even realize that his dogs were gone... THANK YOU HomeAgain for your quick work! Mother's day was so much more special because we were able to brings those two "furr-kids" home!

My Best Friend Is Back Home!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, May 08, 2011 12:11:15 AM

I just moved to an apartment complex to be closer to college and finish my last semester in nursing school. Einstein was still getting acclimated to the new surroundings and was barking a lot whenever I left him alone. This one time, I left the door to the outside balcony open and he somehow got out under the railing. My roommate phoned me at work to tell me my dog was missing and the panic started. The first thing I did was call HomeAgain to alert them so they could post him as missing. Ninety minutes after that phone conversation, Einstein was back home. Someone turned him to the apartment security department who held him for a couple of hours before taking him to a local shelter. The shelter employees scanned his microchip and were alerted to the missing dog status and phoned me to come and get him. Thank you so much, HomeAgain, I lost my husband to cancer, quit my job, sold my house, moved to Lansing from my home town 200 miles away and this little dog helped me through all of the tough times. ...

Missing But Found Fast

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:50:17 PM

Finally Home After A Year

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:59:15 AM

My boy Neo, was stolen over a year ago. Our family was heartbroken. One day I received an email from Facebook on an account that I only used to try and find my boy. A special person found him in a pound. This is a very small pound that does not have the equipment for checking chips. He was scheduled to be put down. She pulled him from the pound a day before he was to be put down because he was just too nice. She then took him to her vet to get him ready for adoption. The vet scanned him and found out he had an owner...ME. I live in Pennsylvania. He was found in Texas. He is finally home with us, back where he belongs all because on a whim I decided to get him chipped. Thank you so much, HomeAgain!!

Our Happy Reunion

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:49:22 PM

Right Under Our Noses

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:44:11 PM

Twinkie was accidentally let into the backyard by the kids while their Dad was mowing and had a gate open. We did not realize she was gone for a few hours. We searched the surrounding area for her and made many frantic phone calls without any luck. We thought she would return home in a few hours, any other time she has gotten loose she came back on her own. We went to bed with a heavy heart- she had not returned after 7 hours. Our whole family was devastated- Twinkie had been our faithful friend for almost 15 years. We hated to lose her without knowing what had happened to her. We continued looking and calling local Vets, animal control and shelters the next day. In the afternoon the phone rang and it was HomeAgain calling. The representative told me they had a pet rescuer who had seen the "Lost Pet Alert" and thought they had information on Twinkie! She connected me with the Good Samaritan who turned out to be the neighbor across the street. We had a good laugh and decided Twinkie just wanted a little vacati...

2.5yrs later, 100miles away! Shes Home!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 23, 2011 3:56:21 PM

Abe's Adventure

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 22, 2011 3:26:24 PM

Abe decided to jump out of the window of his home yesterday afternoon. He was spooked from a chirping smoke detector battery. He actually pushed through the screen window and escaped. I received a call from my apartment office saying they were trying to catch him and corral him back home. No such luck. By the time I made it home it was too late. Abe was nowhere to be found, however several neighbors had spotted him just 30 minutes earlier. I was devastated. I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening searching for Abe. I kept wishing it was all a nightmare that I'd wake up from. The next morning I began calling the local animal control and shelters. Then I received the call from HomeAgain saying he'd been found! Abe had made his way about 2 miles down the road (in the opposite direction where we thought he'd headed!) where a good samaritan coaxed him into her car and brought him to a nearby vet. The vet's office scanned Abe's microchip and presto! I was hysterical with joy when I picked hi...

Sadie's Trip To The City

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:33:04 PM

The wind had blown our back gate open and Sadie had wandered out without us even knowing. We began to look all night and alerted HomeAgain that she had gone missing. The next day Home Again called us and gave us the number to one of our neighbors. Sadie had walked into their house the night before looking for her way home. They had to take a trip to the city and didn't want to leave her alone so they took her with them and called the local vets to see if anyone had lost a dog. HomeAgain had already sent faxes to every vet where we lived. The vet called them and immediately transferred the call to us. Once we heard how she had gotten to the city, we quickly hopped in the car to meet our neighbors in the city and to get Sadie back.

My Social Dog Gets Hit by Car

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:10:34 PM

Roxy my 3 year old Golden Retriever decided to visit the neighbor's new Yellow Lab pup without asking permission. On the way over she was hit in the head by a vehicle. Dazed and confused, she walked in the opposite direction as her home. Luckily she was saved by a 7 year old red-headed boy. The boy carried her to his house and the boy's mom called HomeAgain. HomeAgain contacted my phone in a conference call style fashion to notify me that she was found even though I didn't know she was missing. Roxy was hospitalized for 2 days and seems to be recovering nicely thanks to my vet Dr. Mark Reib and HomeAgain. God Bless the people responsible for inventing and starting up this much needed service.

Molly is Home Safe

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:55:12 PM

Molly had been missing a day and a half. After just checking with the county Animal Services Department two hours before, I got a call from an Animal Services officer saying that they had her. Even though she had never left our street and we put up flyers, the person who found her had not seen them and called the Animal Services to come and pick her up and they were able to contact us by her chip. It’s good to have Molly Back!

Finding Rascal

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 18, 2011 6:43:21 PM

Rascal has always been very good about coming home after a long day of roaming and hunting, but one Saturday he didn't come home. After an unsuccessful attempt at finding him the next day, I logged onto HomeAgain.com to list him as a missing pet. We expanded our search to include a jackrabbit habitat about a mile from our house. He had successfully brought one home before and perhaps was there again. We came up short again. On Monday I got a call from the pound saying that a lady had found a cat sleeping on her roof and wanted to know if there were any reports of missing cats. Thank goodness for the HomeAgain network and the microchip that was embedded in Rascal. He was very happy to see us and we were really happy to see him. Thanks again!

Worst Nightmare

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 18, 2011 5:08:29 PM

My precious Leo went missing Saturday April 16th, around 2:30pm, when I left my laundry door open and the garage was open as well. I was gone running errands; by the time I got home it was 7pm. I realized I had left the garage opened and ran inside looking for Leo but there was no Leo. My heart sank, I ran outside yelling his name and knocking door to door but there was no Leo. I stayed out the first night until 3 am, hoping to find him. I came back home and reported him lost on HomeAgain and the next day I posted the flyers that HomeAgain created for me. I spent all day Sunday posting and praying that someone would call me. Today at 1:44pm, I received the BEST call of my life, from HomeAgain saying they had the guy who had Leo on the other line, his name was Davon. Leo had apparently gone to his meat market across the street from my house. Davon took care of my puppy and brought him home to me. HomeAgain and Davon have given me the faith I have been missing for a long time! Thank you Thank you Thank you f...

Found After 19 Months!

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 15, 2011 9:48:12 PM

After searching for 19 months and seeing Athena in every grey and white Shih Tzu we saw, she was found. We do not know how she got so far from home but hearing she had been found was the best phone call ever! The young lady from HomeAgain, called all four numbers we had listed on our account until she got a call back. Athena is now home with her family, including a new friend and fellow Shih Tzu. Grace, to play with and everyone is happy. Athena, Grace and our cat Jasper all thankfully have microchips!

Gone In Two Minutes

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:35:33 PM

I received a call from HomeAgain that someone had found my dog. I couldn't believe it as she had been barking at the front window not two minutes before. So with phone in hand I looked around the house, not there. Went to the back yard, not there, and I found that the winds had blown open my gate. I looked to the man who was holding on to my dog right out in front of my house, across the street. I was glad to see her and unfortunately did not get the man’s name. I thanked him profusely at the time but wished I could have said more. And thanks to HomeAgain.

Six Years Later

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:09:31 PM

Memorial Day weekend 2005, my husband and I went to his parents for a picnic about 30 miles away from our home in St. Louis and brought our dog, Stinky. I went to the store to pick up some forgotten supplies and I left Stinky at the house. While we were gone some fireworks scared Stinky off the deck and she ran into a wooded area. My husband and his father ran after her calling her name, but she was so scared she just kept running. When my husband called to tell me what happened, i was so scared and panicked. She was only four pounds and there was a busy road and woods surrounding the home. We looked for hours, even after dark but could not find her. We asked people driving and walking along the trail, if they had seen a little tan Chihuahua with a pink nose walking by. No one had. The next day was a holiday, so the county animal control was closed. I started hanging fliers, asking around and searching the wooded areas again. On Tuesday, I was hopeful that whoever had found her, would have taken her...

We Did Not Give Up Hope

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:33:43 AM

We lost our cat In October of 2010, before Halloween. Our children made lost posters and searched the neighborhood but could not find him. We went through the whole winter thinking he was gone, but my husband did not give up hope that we would find Squeaky. Today we received a call that a local cat rescue may have our cat. I also received an email from HomeAgain that our pet had been located through his microchip. Today they brought Squeaky home to us after 7 months! The rescue center was planning on sending him to a new home in just 2 days from the time they found us. I did not know if the microchip would be worth placing at the time that I bought them for my cats but now I am a true believer. Thank you, HomeAgain for helping to reunite us with our pet.

Kiki is home!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:11:11 AM

Our tragedy began around 8:15 Sunday, with a neighborhood kid getting into our back yard for their ball and leaving our gate open. Kiki walked out to the front. Then some kids walking their dogs took a liking and took her instead of asking around whose dog it was. I have no idea what they were thinking or why they did this. I had walked and driven by several times. I could hear her barking, but i could also hear many other dogs barking too. I wasn't sure if it was her because i could not see her. Kiki is very loving and friendly and plays well with others... I called HomeAgain 9:45 and posted the information. The gentleman that help me was so nice. Monday morning I go to the shelter and other places, nothing. I go again at noon, crying and still nothing. I call HomeAgain one more time. A young lady takes my information and tells me i can download a flyer off of their site, so I did. Thank you. My blessing began Monday at 4:15 when HomeAgain called telling me that they had someone on the line who may h...

Gracie's Homecoming

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 08, 2011 9:43:02 PM

We had adopted Gracie and only had her a month when she got out of our fenced backyard. Some kids had found her and didn't know who she belonged to. They were walking down our street with her trying to find her owners when a man said he would take her. When we realized Gracie was gone and went out searching we found the kids that had found her and they showed us the house where the man who they had given her to lived but he denied having her despite the fact that the kids said he was the one they gave her too. Thinking that this man stole our puppy we thought we would never get her back. Then about a month later we got a phone call from a vet saying that a lady found her in the street and brought her in to see if she was microchipped. She was and we were reunited. I will always microchip my dogs and get them identification tags and would recommend every pet owner to do the same. Stolen dogs can be reunited with their families too!

HomeAgain Instrumental In Pixie's Return

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:16:48 PM

Pixie, my precious Pekingese Princess, slipped her collar and took off with no tags. We suspected that she had been picked up by someone since she disappeared off the street within five minutes of escaping. Four months later, someone found her in another section of the city and immediately took her to their vet to have her scanned. Because of the HomeAgain chip, they were able to identify Pixie as a missing dog and I was contacted. Pixie is now home again, in good health, and is enjoying relaxing days in her favorite spots in the yard, the front porch, and inside on her window seat. Thank you, HomeAgain for providing this service. The wait was long, but the ending very happy!

The Best Call I've Ever Received

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 04, 2011 10:03:38 PM

I received a call from HomeAgain, informing me that someone had found my baby. One of the high school girls in the community had found my dog wandering around the local coffee cafe and didn’t want to leave her there alone and scared. She took Tax home with her that day and the next day she and her father had taken her up to Petsmart to be scanned for a microchip. I was able to be reunited with my baby girl thanks to the kindness of this wonderful teenager and the technology of microchipping. I will always be grateful to both!

Numa Found After 8 days!

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 04, 2011 12:15:33 PM

After eight long days of searching, our family dog Numa has been found. He was tangled in the woods by his retractable leash and a kind neighbor found him while on a walk with his dogs. Thankfully when we adopted Numa from the animal shelter he received a microchip and was wearing his HomeAgain tags. The neighbor reported him immediately and the amazing customer service rep helped reunite us within minutes. So amazed and thankful!

The Curious Kitty

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 04, 2011 4:14:21 AM

Tina had always wanted to be an outdoor cat, however, her small size made her stay an indoor cat. One night, when I returned from work, Tina was waiting for me at the front door like usual, but instead of backing up away from the door when I opened it she hopped out the door. She had gotten out before and we had found her immediately, but this time it seemed that she had decided to take her outdoor adventure to the next level. With no progress after four hours of searching I decided to report Tina lost to HomeAgain. They informed me that lost indoor cats will either hide and stay quite or decide to roam. I had hoped that she was just hiding like she would normally do, but if she was it was nowhere near my home. The next day after my fiancé, a few friends and I posted up posters and began contacting some of the shelters that HomeAgain told us about. It was a week before anyone saw Tina, but lucky for us she happened to roam in front of someone who was responsible and caring enough to take her to the Boulde...

Gracie Found Due to HomeAgain Flier

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 02, 2011 6:56:23 PM

I printed the poster on yellow paper and posted it everywhere I could get to. I had penciled in my home phone number. Fortunately, Gracie was spotted by an animal lover and was recognized from the picture on the poster. The lady called me and I raced to the spot. After a few minutes of hide and seek under cars and behind hedges, Gracie finally came to me and I was able to pick her up and carry her home. The HomeAgain poster saved my kitty. Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you. By the way, I was delighted to discover that most of the local veterinarians are HomeAgain subscribers and had received the notification of her loss. If she had been picked up and taken to a vet's office, I would likely have recovered her in that fashion. I am extremely grateful for your service, and I will never in the future have a pet that doesn't get a chip and registration from the beginning. By the way, the picture I'm uploading is not the one we put on the poster, but I thought you'd like it. Thank you again. I pa...

Overnight Vacation

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 02, 2011 3:29:34 PM

Tara usually stays right by my side, but with the weather so nice and the sun shining she wandered off right under my nose. I had only looked away for a second and when I looked back, she was gone. I drove the neighborhood and she was nowhere in sight, but it’s not easy to spot a 3 lb. yorkie in a big neighborhood. I received a call the next morning, that thanks to her microchip, she has been found and traced to me. They were so nice at the shelter, that they didn’t charge me to pick her up. If it weren’t for her microchip, I may not have found her so fast. Thank you, HomeAgain, for identifying my dog.

Reunited Three Times During Our Move!

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 01, 2011 10:24:35 AM

When we moved to our new home in the desert, Charlotte, our scent-bound basset hound, found every hole in our new fence! The microchip really worked! We had forgotten all about giving HomeAgain our new address the first time Charlotte went on a walkabout, but they contacted our mom, who always knows how to reach us. She told us who was keeping Charlotte safe from marauding desert denizens (javelina and rattlesnakes!). I was able to call the good samaritan and collect Charlotte! If she hadn't had her microchip tag on, I'm sure she would have found a new home and we would never have seen her again! I'm a veterinarian so you can bet that I tell this story to many of my clients. (While I hate to admit that I lost my dog, it happens to even the most diligent pet owners.) A HomeAgain microchip is a small expense for a lifetime of happiness with the furry friends we care for and love with all our hearts!

Charlie Is Home Again

Found Pets Home — Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:41:59 PM

HomeAgain is AWESOME! Charlie got out of our yard at approximately 12pm on Wednesday. We reported him lost that evening to HomeAgain. They sent out alerts in our area and created our posters immediately. We printed the posters right away, put them up and a neighbor, who had found Charlie, saw one of our posters and called HomeAgain. HomeAgain called us and we had Charlie back home by 3pm Thursday afternoon. It was a great day for our family!

HomeAgain Saves the Day

Found Pets Home — Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:21:15 AM

HomeAgain proved to be a great service! We reported our Great Dane missing, and within just a few hours, HomeAgain was connecting us with folks that had spotted our dog. They made it very easy to find our little adventurer.

Birthday Wish Come True

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:30:31 PM

My fiancé and I are at the beginning of a Brady Bunch story and between us have 4 kids, 3 dogs and a cat. While preparing to combine households and sell my house, all the pets relocated to his house in another city. Last night he let Pippa out and when he took her off the leash to bring her in, she made a mad dash. He followed her but she was too fast. He ended up looking for her until three in the morning with no luck. He called me this morning to let me know she was missing. It was my youngest child’s fourth birthday. I could not let him know that his favorite dog was missing. As soon as I found out I filled in the forms on Home Again and uploaded a picture. I had just renewed the week before and remembered reading about this service thinking I would never need it. Then I drove to my fiancé’s house and started walking and calling for her. When I got too cold I went in and looked at the website again and saw that I could make posters. I posted them in the entire neighborhood and on instinct; I ...

Testing the System

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:53:25 PM

As a veterinarian, I know how important it is that pets have a microchip. It is even more important when it is your pet that is lost. Both my husband and I commute to work. We rely heavily on the dog door that opens into a big fenced back yard. Great for the dogs but not so great when the cats learn to use the dog door too. One of our favorite cats came up missing for over a week. With a lot of work and ads to every source I could think of, he was returned home. We decided that it was time that all of the cats receive a microchip while we try to solve the dog door problem. I implanted the cats on a Wednesday. I worked on Thursday. A call came in to the clinic that day regarding a cat with a microchip from our clinic that was at the shelter about 30 miles south. The staff couldn't find the microchip number in the computer and were trying to figure out why it wasn't coming up and how we were going to be able to find the owner. I was working on my HomeAgain paper work between appointments. I...

Renewed Faith

Found Pets Home — Sunday, March 27, 2011 1:51:51 AM

I have two sweet dogs, Ginger and Zak. Ginger is a chiweenie and Zak is a wire-haired dachshund. They have been together almost a year, coinciding with my courtship and marriage. When our fence blew down from strong winds on Tuesday March 22nd, we had no idea that our dogs would come up missing. Our daughter accidently let the dogs into the backyard. Zak and Ginger took to their freedom running to the nearest people. Zak with the short legs - once he's cornered he rolls over in surrender, but Ginger on the other hand took off for a half mile journey. Both dogs ran to great people. On the second day as my husband and I visited the Grand Prairie shelter, it was a miracle that a lady came into the shelter with Ginger while we were there. I had purchased Zak at this shelter, but failed to register Zak with HomeAgain. We got Ginger microchipped that day and the next day I registered both dogs and reported Zak was lost. The very next day, I received a call from HomeAgain that Zak was at a nearby shelter. ...

Still Can't Believe It

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:42:59 PM

Eddie had been gone for 6 months, and we didn't think we'd ever see him again. Then one day we got a call from a mobile vet unit, and they said they had Eddie. He'd been brought in by a couple that had taken him in a few months ago, and they decided to bring him in for a check up. Of course the first thing they did was scan him, and what do you know, he had a microchip that told them he belonged to someone other than the couple that brought him in. The couple couldn’t believe it, and didn’t want to leave Eddie with them. They asked if they could take him home to say their goodbyes. The vet agreed, and gave them 24 hours to return him. Twenty-four hours later, there was not a call from the couple. We became concerned. I called the vet and they said they would contact them, and get back to us. A few minutes later we got a call from a man, and he said, “I guess we have your cat.” We immediately arranged to pick Eddie up that evening. When we arrived at his new home, we couldn’t believe our eyes. He h...

Vacation Nightmare Averted

Found Pets Home — Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:29:48 PM

Abby and I are from Indiana and were visiting family in Michigan. After she wandered away from their home we grew quite nervous when we couldn't find her. Within a few hours, we received a phone call to let us know that she had been found. A neighbor found her, took her to the vet and had her scanned. Afterwards, the HomeAgain folks reconnected us with Abby. What could have turned into a nightmare was quickly turned into a problem solved. We sure do appreciate HomeAgain!

Tyler Lost and Found

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:14:14 PM

Tyler got out of our yard on Saturday night. We made posters, posted on craigslist and HomeAgain.com. We checked shelters daily. He was found 1-1/2 miles from our home at a busy intersection, 4 days after he got out of our yard. He was picked up by animal control and taken to a local animal shelter. His microchip was scanned, and through HomeAgain, our information was readily available. About 10 minutes after I got a call from the shelter, I received a Found Email from HomeAgain. This is a wonderful service - reuniting us with our 7 year old bichon. He's an integral part of our family and we are so happy to have him back home again. Thank you HomeAgain!

HomeAgain Helped to Find Our Girl

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:47:00 AM

What an awesome service! I posted the lost notice at about 6am and was able to pick-up our girl at 5:30pm. All because, someone took time to read an email alert. Thank you so much HomeAgain!

Molly's Big Adventure

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:17:59 PM

Thank you so much for your services! Molly was found 24 miles away from home and taken to a shelter. I was notified right away, that she was safe and sound. Molly is 13 years old and hard of hearing. Without her microchip, I believe we never would have been reunited! It is well worth every penny, your services come at such an affordable value! Thank you!

Louis is HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:40:11 AM

My family is relocating from Texas to Kentucky. In route to our new home, we stopped in Louisiana for a short visit so our children could spend time with their grandparents. Our dogs were secured in the back yard. On the second day of our visit, I was running errands, when to my surprise, I received a call from HomeAgain. Someone had found Louis, our shih tzu, and I didn't even know he was missing! That little stinker was in the yard when I left the house that morning. Here's the part that boggles the mind - he had traveled several miles through high-traffic urban areas in a couple of hours. He is completely unfamiliar to cars and their dangers, as he has always lived on a large ranch in the country. He must have had a guardian angel with him. A wonderful lady found him and called the information on his tag to discover the phone disconnected. She then called HomeAgain who called my cell phone. Thank you Home Again! If he had not had his HomeAgain microchip, we would never have seen him again! I am so g...

Parker Is HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Monday, March 14, 2011 4:44:04 PM

I spent two very unhappy nights, as did Parker's sister and mother, looking everywhere. Then the vet called to inform me that he identified Parker by his microchip. Now Parker is home. He lost his way when he and his sister, Airi, were out running. He was later found hiding in a ditch. We are all so happy and grateful to HomeAgain. I am so relieved that he had a microchip, unlike a collar that can come off. What a wonderful miracle to find him. Thank you for being there HomeAgain. He started life out really tough. His mother was abandoned in a campground and had two puppies, Airi and Parker. They were about six weeks old when we camped there, 250 miles from home. There was no way we would leave them behind. That was about five months ago. They have had a long road to health and it broke my heart when he didn't come home. But now he is home. He is a sweetheart and even the lady that found him said so. He is a hero too. While at the vet’s office, Parker gave blood to a sick puppy. How special he is and ...

Thank You For Microchip Technology!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:15:59 PM

Our cat, Baron, an almost 10 year old persian, usually goes out in the morning and comes home by noon the latest. Last night he did not come home. We searched the area but did not see him. This morning I walked all around looking for him, but still with no luck. I filled out the Lost Pet form with HomeAgain, and within a few hours, the man from one of the vets in the area called me and said that someone had found Baron and brought him into the vet. I could not tell you how HAPPY I was at that moment. We rushed to the vet, and there he was, scared, but surely happy to see us. Now he is at his own home, enjoying his favorite foods and sleeping. I am sure he needs a lot of rest after all of the stress he went through. I am sure Baron wants to say his personal " Thank You, HomeAgain" for telling my parents where I was! I am glad to be back home!

We Didn't Even Know Gucci Was Gone!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:01:56 PM

See how microchipping helped reunite Gucci with his owners before they even knew he was missing.

Callie is HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Monday, March 07, 2011 5:25:58 PM

Callie was let off her leash in unfamiliar territory on a Saturday around 3:30 pm. She was with folks she didn't know too well and I guess she just wanted to go find us! We notified HomeAgain via the website that same evening, put up posters, visited our shelters; all the normal things we knew we should do. For the next 48 hours, we cried, searched, posted ads, called vet clinics with no results. Today, almost exactly 48 hours from the time she went missing, an Angel from HomeAgain called to give us the number of a gentleman who thought he had spotted her, almost 8 miles from where she was lost! Craig is a member of Home Again "PetRescuers" and had received the email alert about Callie. Thanks to his quickly reporting her sighting to HomeAgain, and their quick call to us, we got there before she got out of the area and she is back in our arms! To say the least, this would not have been possible without Callies microchip and the fabulous system that HomeAgain has in place. I am now a proud "Pe...

Lost and HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Sunday, March 06, 2011 10:26:56 AM

My cat had been missing for 6 weeks so we were positive he was gone forever. Until we received a phone call from our vet saying they found him. We were so excited and drove there as fast as the speed limit would allow us. When we arrived they said a women had tried to feed him for about a week and he didnt seem interested in food. She couldnt afford another cat so she brought him to the vet to see if they could do something for him. The vet checked for a microchip and sure enough he had a HomeAgain chip inside. They called HomeAgain and got our information. They were so happy we were patients of theirs. He was underweight and covered in fleas. But , he is now HomeAgain with us. Thank you so much. You have no idea how happy our family is now that Riley is back where he belongs.

Halle The Explorer

Found Pets Home — Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:06:25 AM

Halle dug her way under our fence and out our backyard and wandered through both residential and busy streets. She was found cowering on the side of a busy street and trying to cross it. A guardian angel, named Cristy who is allergic to dogs, took her in her car and brought her to the local animal hospital where she was scanned and identified as our missing pet. Since she is highly allergic to dogs, she brought Halle to her Belene, her mother in law, some 7-8 miles away, where she was pampered like the little princess SHE THINKS she is. It was a tough 24 hours on me and my family, but thanks to the technology and caring service provided by Home Again, and two guardian angels named Cindy and Belene, we forever owe all of them our eternal gratitude.

Oscar's Happy Return!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:37:42 AM

My indoor cat Oscar accidentally got out one cold night in February. Because it was night time and Oscar sometimes finds unusual places to sleep for the night, we did not notice he was gone until the morning. The night he left it was snowing out and very cold. When we realized he had gotten out, I started my search. I went to neighbors houses, walked around calling his name. No luck, it was like he had just disappeared. Then I remembered he had been microchiped! I called HomeAgain and they got the word out that he was missing. They also suggested putting up posters, which I did. Five days later, I got a call from HomeAgain. Someone had spotted Oscar. It turns out he was right across the street in a neighbors shed. I was so relieved to get that call and know that he was okay. Although I knew where he was, catching him was another story! He was so scared, when approached, he took off and hid. We even went and got a humane animal trap to try to get him. But in the end after nine days in the cold and snow, Os...

Mushu's Home!!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:27:48 PM

As soon as we noticed Mushu was gone we called HomeAgain and were given instructions on what to do. Within minutes, we were able to edit and print out posters and posted them around the perimeters of our subdivision. We got a call from Animal Hospital early this morning notifying us that someone had turned in Mushu to them. It pays to have your dog micro-chipped! Thank you to whoever turned Mushu in! You are a God send! Thank you to HomeAgain for your help!!

Thanks Home Again!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:32:16 PM

After a harrowing 2 hours searching the neighborhood, I remembered Harley's microchip that our vet insisted on. I went back to the website and realized that I had never finished activating the account. With the help of customer service I had it done in minutes, and literally minutes later got a call from Animal Control that they had Harley! Their comment when we picked him up was that they were glad that not only had he had a microchip, but that it had been activated. They said they get so many dogs in with chips, that are never activated. Thank you again for returning our baby, and please please stress to keep your pet's chip up to date! Oh, and we're building a taller fence....

The One-Eyed Wonder Gets Returned!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:51:25 PM

Theodore had escaped from my front yard in the wee hours of the morning. When he didn't come back for his breakfast I knew something was wrong. My 5 year old daughter ran into the front yard and started screaming his name (Theodore and my daughter are best friends). We both searched for him for 3 hours that morning, going from door to door asking if someone had seen him. Unfortunately, no one had. My daughter was a mess. The first place I called was HomeAgain and reported him missing. It was a great comfort to know that HomeAgain would send out "Lost Dog" fliers to alert vet hospital and shelters within a 25 mile radius. My daughter and I spent the next few hours making and posting fliers, calling every animal shelter in the area hoping someone would find him. Then finally, I got a call from our local shelter that a one-eyed white dog had been found by a good Samaritan. My daughter and I rushed over there. But alas, it was not Theodore just another one-eyed stay dog (what are the chances). For the...

Unexpected and HAPPY Reunion!

Found Pets Home — Friday, February 18, 2011 12:56:51 AM

We'd just returned from a Florida vacation in the spring of 2009 when I found the most shocking message on my answering machine. A little tan terrier mix, now in rescue, was scanned for a microchip and had been traced back to me. The shocking part was that our dear little dog had disappeared 9 years before! After searching for weeks we'd sadly concluded she had been the victim of a car or she'd been picked up by someone. Unfortunately, she liked to escape when the opportunity arose and that day she'd just had a bath and wasn't wearing her collar and ID when she slipped out the front door. I'd completely forgotten she'd been microchipped by the humane society. Over the years I'd occasionally think of "Pahboo" (her original name Daphne had long been replaced by that nickname. My son, 3 at the time, couldn't say the word puppy !) but so many years had gone by she'd become just a memory. Needless to say I was in shock when I phoned the lady at the rescue. She assured me I shouldn’t' t feel obligated...

Finding Bean

Found Pets Home — Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:10:28 AM

Bean, being a feisty Boston terrier, slipped out un-noticed while we had our back gate open to bring a trailer in. He has escaped before so I set to work posting flyers and handing out his picture with our phone number to people in our neighborhood. I visited the HomeAgain website and filed a lost pet report and was able to make some Lost Pet Posters from the site. The next morning I received a call from a person who had gotten a lost pet e-mail alert from HomeAgain regarding a lost dog in the area. She got our phone number from one of the posters I had made. She knew someone who found a Boston Terrier in our area, but the timing did not match up to when Bean went missing, I was disappointed but it was encouraging to know that other people were helping me search! Later the same day I received another phone call from someone that thought they had found Bean and inquired about the reward that I offered. I asked them to take the dog to the animal shelter and have his microchip scanned to verify it was re...

Toby Comes Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:02:03 AM

My family and I adopted Toby from Compassionate Hearts, an animal rescue organization in Harrisburg, PA in November 2009. Our beloved cat has just passed away and I wanted to give a home to an older cat. Toby was about 2 years old when adopted. He was found roaming the streets of Harrisburg, was rescued and then adopted. However, his first adopted family returned him because their other cats beat Toby up. So, we adopted Toby and gave him a home and love, but he still heard the call of the wild. We kept him indoors, but he tried to escape outside every time someone came in through the front door. Toby was also able to actually open the front door himself when it was not locked. When outside, he always stayed within the neighborhood and found his way home after an hour or two. However, in July 2010, he opened the front door and escaped sometime after midnight. When he did not show up for breakfast or dinner the next day, we knew he was lost. We created fliers and posted them far and wide. We and cruised...

Lucky Puppy

Found Pets Home — Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:44:24 AM

I am a veterinary technician at a veterinary clinic in Orlando, FL. About a week or two ago we had a client bring in a stray dog that she found wandering around in a parking lot. We called the number on the tag but no answer. The tag read "Toby". As our usual protocol, we scanned the stray for a microchip. Success! A HomeAgain Microchip number! Lucky the microchip was actually registered, which sadly enough is not the case for most (PLEASE always register your pets microchip). We were able to find the owners of the dog who had actually been missing for over four months! They were very excited and headed to our clinic to reunite with their long lost dog. It turns out that the tag reading "Toby" was from someone who had found the dog and never had it scanned for the microchip and just taken in the stray as their own.

Over Six Months Missing

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:58:33 PM

A friend offered me Hera when she was so little, that I had to feed her with a little bottle. He mother had died and dear Casper had been eaten by the coyotes. Hera came to help me not to miss Casper so much. My Bichon frisé was still a puppy, so he and Hera grew up together, playing together and sleeping together. One day, my husband decided to buy a German Shepperd, Maia, and this is more or less where my story starts. Maia was only two months old when she came, but Kitty (Hera’s nickname) wasn’t happy at all. She stopped drinking water from her fountain in the kitchen, spending most of the days out and I had to watch very closely to make sure she would come in later in the day so I could shut the flap door. I told my husband that Hera was going to quit because of Maia, but he didn’t believe me. In the summer of 2009 she vanished. In the first days I was hoping she would come back, but as the days went by, I started to believe that Hera had the same end as Casper: eaten by coyotes. I looked all ove...

Pug Phew

Found Pets Home — Monday, February 07, 2011 1:33:40 AM

I forgot to lock door. Left for 4 hrs, came back, and Pugster was missing. I Searched neighborhood and asked people if they had seen my Pug. I put up a few small signs. Then February 6, I went to print the customized HomeAgain Lost Pet Poster, when I got the call from my local animal shelter. Someone found her at a supermarket parking lot, over 25 miles away. These wonderful strangers found her and took her first to SPCA where they sent them to Town Lake animal shelter, in Austin. They scanned her chip and we are so happy to find her. Also chip saved us half the impound fee. Thanks HomeAgain.

A Lost Shih Tzu

Found Pets Home — Sunday, February 06, 2011 11:10:41 PM

A gentleman found Coco running down the middle of the street. He left her at his father's house which was located in the neighborhood. He went on-line and found a listing for a lost Shih Tzu matching her description. He called HomeAgain and although he could not scan her for a chip since it was the weekend, HomeAgain worked their magic and reunited Coco with her family. Thank you HomeAgain!!

Banjo and Guss

Found Pets Home — Sunday, February 06, 2011 3:32:03 PM

My Brittany Spaniels, Guss and Banjo, got out of the fenced back yard through a gate that was rarely used but somehow left open. I panicked when I realized that the tags they were wearing had my old home number which I had had disconnected a month earlier. To top it all off I had changed my cell number and failed to update my contact info with HomeAgain. After driving around looking for them for over an hour I came home and logged into HomeAgain’s website. The first thing I did was correct my phone number and then clicked on report a lost pet. Before I could complete the information my cell phone rang and it was HomeAgain with a caller on the line who lived at least 5 miles away and had both my dogs. They had tried the number on the store bought tags which was the old number and found it disconnected. Then they called HomeAgain because the dogs also had the HomeAgain tags on with their ID numbers and names on them. They met me at local store with the dogs and now they are back home safe thanks to Home...

Couldn't Be Happier

Found Pets Home — Friday, February 04, 2011 6:51:06 PM

Abby got out of my yard sometime while I was at work. When I discovered that she was missing, the shelters had already closed so I couldn't find out if she had been found. I called HomeAgain to let them know that Abby was missing, and the person on the other end of the phone could not have been nicer. He walked me though the reporting process and gave me some tips of things that I could do to help find her. After a sleepless night, I received a call from a local vet. Someone had picked up Abby in her parking lot about a mile from my house the afternoon before, and she had brought her into the vet to check for a microchip. The vet had just gotten an alert from HomeAgain with Abby's information and picture. She recognized Abby from the photo and confirmed that she did, indeed, have a HomeAgain microchip. She contacted HomeAgain, and they gave her my information. I received the happy call before 11am the day after I lost Abby. I can't thank HomeAgain enough for not only their communication syst...

Mistaken Identity

Found Pets Home — Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:50:35 PM

Last March my Mom had a stroke and then three heart attacks and was in the hospital in intensive care. To say the least-our family was under a lot of stress. I had a grooming appointment for my two dogs and did not want to cancel their appointment, so I took them. When I picked up my dogs, I noticed something was different about my Yorkie, but I was so stressed about my mother's health that I didn't think much about it. As the days and the weeks went by I noticed things about my dog that just didn't add up. My family noticed small things but we didn't pay much attention as we were more focused on my mother's health issues. To my amazement three weeks went by and one day I got a call from the groomer saying that they had given me the wrong Yorkie and I should go to my vet’s office to pick up the correct dog! I had to laugh because I just knew something was different about the dog and I felt so bad that I had been so preoccupied that I didn't realize I had the wrong Yorkie. The two dogs looked...

A beloved dog is found

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:04:01 PM

I was reunited with my buddy Mater today, thanks to HomeAgain, and a person who cared enough to report seeing him. I found out that the person that had my dog, refused to take him to the vet to check his microchip number. I would have probably never seen him again, if I had not been a member of HomeAgain. The person that reported seeing him saw the poster on the post by my driveway where Mater was last seen sitting. It turns out Mater was only a 1/2 a mile down the road from his home. He was missing almost three weeks. I never stopped believing he would find his way home. I was so scared when the sheriff that went with me to get him told me, that if we did not see him there would be nothing I could do. I can’t tell you how relieved I was when the boy opened the door and Mater came through it. He was so happy when he saw me and my son Eric. He has not left my side since I brought him home. He had lost some much needed weight. I was told by the person (who I am forever grateful to) that he was sad and w...

Check Your Fences

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:49:06 PM

We moved recently to a home with a 6 foot privacy fence. It looked and felt secure. Little did we know... it was dry rotted and if enough pressure is applied, the bottom pickets snap off like toothpicks. So, we normally cabled the young Husky, our fence breaker, while repairing this fence. Little did I know that Charlie was the one breaking the fence too! Old dogs do learn new tricks and she and another dog made their escape when let out for the last time before bedtime. Within 15 minutes, they were gone. We activated our HomeAgain Lost Pet Alerts immediately after a 6 block radius search by vehicle and on foot with a flash light failed to turn either of them up. We started where we had seen them show interest while walking the neighborhood first- a nearby field, the alleys, other yards with dog friends. We awoke this morning to the little dog, Roscoe "Booger" scratching furiously at the back door, having re-entered the fence area to return home. He was cold and scared, came right in and headed straigh...

Skooter Is Home!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:31:13 PM

I noticed Skooter was missing in the morning because I usually take him out as soon as I get up. As soon as I realized he was gone I contacted HomeAgain to report Skooter missing. I then contacted the animal shelters and animal control in my area then put up numerous flyers around the neighborhood and talked to all my neighbors. Skooter is a really sweet dog and he has never met a human who did not absolutely fall in love with him. The neighborhood we live in is not known for being the safest of neighborhoods, so after an entire day of searching I was convinced someone found him and decided to keep him. At about 6:30 pm I received a call from HomeAgain letting me know that someone had found Skooter. I was so happy that Skooter was found and safe. I was even more thankful that even in a neighborhood that is not so great there are still honest, nice, caring people in the world.

Peace of Mind

Found Pets Home — Monday, January 24, 2011 1:07:15 PM

My special needs cat Eddie went missing overnight and I woke up to his empty bed and was terrified and devastated. I have worked in the veterinary field for 10 years so I did exactly what I tell my clients to do when I am on the receiving end of the frantic phone calls. I never thought the tables would be turned. My cat had been microchipped so I immediately filed a lost pet report with HomeAgain and was amazed at how quickly they took action, notifying everyone within a 25 mile radius of my home. The services they provide allowed me to walk my neighborhood for hours and eliminated me having to sit at home on the phone, searching the yellow pages or internet for local shelter and hospital info. This would have taken hours of phone calls, and would have kept me from being able to canvas my neighborhood. I eventually found Eddie near home hiding and terrified but 100% unharmed. Knowing that I was not the only one looking for him gave me peace of mind as I checked every nook and cranny of every street,...

Newspaper Matched Lost and Found Ads

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:32:34 PM

I decided to post a Lost Pet ad in our local newspaper, both print and online, knowing that a lot of the homeowners in the subdivision where my dog went missing still read the daily paper. The newspaper's ad sales staff matched my Lost Pet ad to the Found Pet ad our neighbor placed with them and gave the neighbor HomeAgain's number. HomeAgain connected us by phone, I described my dog's definitive characteristics, including a belly shaved for ultrasound, and I was on my way to pick up Hondken. The neighbor took very good care of him. To control his cancer, he takes two medications daily and eats a home-cooked fat-free diet. I was very worried his pain might have become debilitating during his adventure, so I was most relieved he seemed completely normal. Many thanks to the sharp eyes at The Sacramento Bee Classifieds, Neighbor Barbara, and HomeAgain

Niko Returns Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:10:42 AM

My sweet little puppy ran away on the morning of 1/8/11. To my surprise he “bolted” away from me without warning. He had never done that before. I called out to him, but he would not return, and I could go no further running after him due to the thorns and thistles he crawled under as he ran. I believe he was suddenly frightened by something. My Family and I spent hours looking for him. We also called HomeAgain to inform them he was missing. The young woman I spoke with was very kind as she took my information regarding him. Later that day I received a call from HomeAgain, they had a woman on the phone that had seen him about a half mile from my home. I immediately went to that very location, however he was already gone. The next day the biggest ice storm in ten years slammed into Atlanta GA, and surrounding areas. Everything shut down completely, the city was immobile. The shelters and Vet offices were closed for a few days. There was no one I could contact to ask about my sweetie. I prayed that some...

Finding Depot

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 15, 2011 4:47:35 PM

Our cat, Depot, got out one sunny California day in October. He never goes out in front, so I figured he was hiding. As most pet owners who lose their pet do, I did everything I could to find him. I went up and down the street asking neighbors if they had seen him, carrying his picture with me. Since I was told cats come out more at night when all is quiet, I went out a couple nights with cat food and shaking his treats bag. No Depot! I contacted several animal communicators; the ones who did get back to me all claimed he was nearby. I put up the Lost Pet Posters provided by HomeAgain and attached his picture. I actually gave up after about 6 weeks of not seeing him again, and thinking he had lost this collar and tag, and been readopted by a loving home. Well, two days after Thanksgiving I received 2 phone messages that afternoon. I quickly returned the calls. A man had called from a Mt. Shasta DUMP (!) to say he had found Depot earlier that week but could not capture him until that day and then ...

Tucker Found

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 14, 2011 8:03:31 PM

We lost Tucker on Christmas eve in a rural farm town in Illinois during a visit with my husband's family. We live in DC, so Tucker does not know the area. Normally reliable off leash, Tucker was spooked by gunfire and ran into the woods. We posted flyers, called the radio stations, and ran ads with a substantial reward. There were a few sightings but by the time we arrived, he was nowhere to be found. The sightings had been fewer and fewer, and today (1/14) we started talking about calling off the search and returning home. Then out of the blue we received a call forwarded by HomeAgain that a kind couple had Tucker and we could pick him up. He had been hiding in their garage and it took three days for him to build enough trust so they could read his tag. We are now a complete family again and other than needing some grooming, rest, and weight gain, Tucker is as happy as always. We are so relieved and the bottom line is that with all the postings and alerts we did, it was the HomeAgain tag th...

Snow Pup Returned

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 14, 2011 1:12:07 PM

It was snowing heavily when Sophie bolted out the door and ran 1 mile to the park, crossing busy streets. After 4 hours of searching and circling the park we got a call from HomeAgain that she had been found by a resident across from the park. We are so grateful for the HomeAgain program for reuniting us with our sweet 1 year old Yorkie!

Once Hopeless Now Found

Found Pets Home — Friday, January 14, 2011 12:04:28 AM

Today (1/13/11) was an absolutely amazing day. Lakiya was taken from my yard on 7/18/10. I immediately followed everything on the HomeAgain website. In addition, I filed a police report, hung countless poster and tried one of the services that call your neighbors to inform them of a lost dog. I even tried several dog psychics. I had all but given up hope. I knew that she had a chip and there was always a chance for her to come home. But I knew the chances of someone taking her to the vet where slim since she had been stolen. All I could pray is that she was with someone that would at least take care of her Imagine my sheer JOY and AMAZEMENT when I got the call today from the animal shelter telling me they had my dog. At first I thought it was one of crank calls I got since posting her posters. The workers at the shelter said it was a very good thing I had her microchipped. She is such a cute and sweet dog that without that she would have ended up in another home and never made it back to me. N...

HomeAgain Made it Happen

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:22:14 AM

I can't express my gratitude for HomeAgain. Layla would have never been found with out this wonderful service. It starts by just having the chip in place, so that no matter how far, Layla could be identified. As soon as she was lost, a Lost Pet Alert email was sent out to the surrounding area. After realizing that Layla needs more help, Lost Pet posters can be made from the HomeAgain template provided. After posting many, many posters, Layla was finally found. She was gone for a week, travelled only 7 miles, but is now safe. The boy, Luis, who found and took care of her for 3 of the days deserves a great deal of recognition. Thank you Home Again, Thank you, Thank you.

Hank Home Quickly

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:44:57 PM

Hank was only missing for a few hours when I decided to give HomeAgain a call. He is a rescue so he had the chip so that I could find him as quickly as possible. The woman on the phone was very kind and kept me calm as I gave the details. I received a phone call this morning from HomeAgain that a vet had received a phone call from a woman that found Hank. I contacted the woman and was able to have a friend pick him up quickly. I'm so happy to have my wonderful Hank back HomeAgain!

HomeAgain found my Baby!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:32:30 PM

I was on a business trip to Toronto when my cellphone rang. The caller informed me that my dog Katie had been found. I was really confused at first because I had left Katie at home in Plano in the care of my husband - surely she wasn't missing! Apparently she had run out the front door when he opened it and made a beeline down the road (I like to think she was looking for me!). He had not called me hoping he would find her before I got home. The operator from HomeAgain connected me with Katie's savior - Victoria, who had found Katie running up and down the sidewalk next to a busy street. Katie had on her collar with the HomeAgain tag, and Victoria called the number listed. I described my husband and where we lived to Victoria, and she drove Katie to our neighborhood and found my husband frantically searching for her. Thank you HomeAgain and Victoria for rescuing my baby while I was so far away!

Krui is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:04:28 AM

My 5 lbs male silky Krui disappeared under mysterious conditions on Dec 15, 2010. He had on a collar with 3 tags of identification and a full length coat of fur that day. I searched relentlessly, posted fliers, visited the area shelters regularly, placed ads in all the local papers and on Craig's List with a reward offered and contacted HomeAgain to put out a Lost Pet Alert. I was starting to lose hope as the weeks went by because I knew the dog being very social, friendly and with plenty of identification was not lost but had been taken. I got several calls from good Samaritans that had found dogs and went and looked at many of these dogs that had been found- however none of these were Krui. I knew Krui's HomeAgain microchip was my best hope of getting him returned to me. On January 11, 2011 at 9:15 AM I received a call from a Value Vet in Deltona, FL informing me a person had found a dog and brought her in. Upon scanning her for a microchip he was identified as my missing dog Krui. This was not a m...

The Phone Call

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 08, 2011 6:42:05 AM

It was late on a Friday night, while I was at work I received a call from my boyfriend that our 1 year old Bella had bolted out the front door when some of his friends were leaving. I drove home, and after several hours of calling her name and driving up and down the streets nearby, I finally went inside our home for a break. Our neighborhood was not an easy one to search, it has a lot of alleyways, back roads, and none of the houses line up next to one another, some with fences and some without. I was worried that Bella had bolted in the opposite direction she was used to going on her walks in. After 9 hours missing, some friends came to help me continue to look. It was then I remembered after calling a few shelters that I could call HomeAgain. When I called, they were so helpful, taking information for a missing poster they would send out. Because Bella didn't know much of the neighborhood and there was a very busy street just north of our home, I was sure she wouldn't be found ok. After 11 ho...

The Best Day Of My Life

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:19:13 AM

After 5 hours of searching for my dog I received a call from HomeAgain. It was the best called I received today. They had a lady on the line who who found my dog. I can't even put into words my reunion with him- but it was an enjoyable one. It was like reuniting with a missing son. He jumped, smiled and was so happy. It made the beginning of 2011 to be one of the best ones of my life. Thanks to HomeAgain my family is complete!

Reba Returns

Found Pets Home — Sunday, January 02, 2011 10:45:09 PM

Our family left our house for about 3 hours on Sunday, and upon our return, we found Reba had dug underneath our fence and was gone. Our other dog, Willie, was still in the back yard. We had only lived in Louisville for about a month, so we were afraid that Reba would not be able to find her way home. We drove around our neighborhood for about 2 hours, and posted signs in our area. I called Home Again at 3 pm to report Reba missing. Within the hour, a missing pet report had been sent to all HomeAgain Pet Rescuers and area veterinarians. I received a copy of the notice and was happy to have the information out, but I wasn't sure if anyone would even read the email notice. At 8 pm Sunday night, we still had not seen Reba. We were beginning to lose hope, as it was January and the nighttime temperatures were well below freezing. I was very worried about where Reba could be. About 8:15 pm, I received a call from HomeAgain, and was told that Ben was on the line, and he thought he might have seen Reba...

Chester Returns

Found Pets Home — Sunday, January 02, 2011 8:18:06 PM

Thanks to the tips we viewed on Home Again, we set a few humane traps for our indoor cat who 'snuck out' yesterday. Cat nip did the trick! We left one pile (among many) very near an open door and while he was enjoying the intoxicating effects of the nip, we were able to coax him in the door, fear free.

Murphie's Return!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, January 02, 2011 6:09:49 PM

My husband and I were heading out of town for New Years and decided to leave our city dog, Murphie, a black lab mix, in the country with my cousin and her dog. On Murphie’s first night there she went out for a potty break and didn't come back in. She is not a runner, but we think she may have gotten spooked by a new sound or distracted by a squirrel and took off. We immediately drove home to help search that night, the next morning, and 2 days after that. 62 hours later - we found her 1.5 miles from my cousin's house, sitting in a high school cul-de-sac waiting for us to pick her up. She's a little worse for the wear with raw paws, cracked nails, a couple of scratches but all and all she's doing great and we are so grateful. Please don't give up - your dog is out there ... ours was! Home Again was an excellent resource, helping to take immediate action steps when a dog is lost. It is an excellent tool and so useful when as a pet owner you feel so helpless. Just knowing the alert went out to...

A Sudden Loss on New Year's Eve

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 01, 2011 9:17:19 PM

Sudden is a rescue dog that we fostered and ultimately adopted. On New Year’s Eve the weather was rather warm for the time of year (around 45 degrees) and we had him outside and were going to bring him in for the night after the festivities. When we went to bring him in he was missing. There were no sign of any breaks in either the fence or gate which are 5 feet high. We had heard the usual fire-crackers and commotion earlier and even commented that they were early by 5 or 10 minutes and that made it all the more annoying. We believed that Sudden got startled by the battle sounds and bolted, scaling and jumping over the fence. Between my Wife, Daughter, and Son-in law we had alternately walked or drove around the neighborhood searching for Sudden. I personally spoke to another couple whose dog was missing as well. They likewise think it was due to fire-crackers. The next day we got a call from HomeAgain to advise us that a family who had taken Sudden in called the number on the tag that was supplied w...

Four Degrees of Separation

Found Pets Home — Saturday, January 01, 2011 4:16:18 PM

Kit struggled out of her collar when she dug under our fence, so her HomeAgain tag was not on her. She travelled to a nearby (approx. one mile) mulch company where she was befriended. The owners knew a gentleman who had Border Collies also and called him. He picked her up, she spent the night on his couch and was taken to Magnolia Veterinary Hospital the next morning. Her HomeAgain chip was scanned, I was contacted and her rescuer met me and returned her. HomeAgain was and is worth its weight in gold, and it's heartwarming to realize that there are good folk in the neighborhood that go all out to return a pet to her home.

Finding Pookey

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 31, 2010 12:13:12 PM

On December 24, 2010, while visiting family members, Pookey and Chiquis both Chihuahuas were let out in the back yard to play. About 10 minutes later Chiquis was at the front door begging to come in but not Pookey, she was nowhere to be found. We searched the surrounding area, called out her name but she never came. After waiting for her outdoors for about 3 hours, it was time for us to go home empty handed. I immediately went to the HomeAgain site and entered Pookey as a lost pet. HomeAgain made the poster that I downloded and used to post on my city bulletin boards and Pet Smart. I received a voice mail on my cell phone on December 30th from Linda who said that she had seen Pookey's poster at Pet Smart and that she believed Pookey was in her back yard but was scared that she would bark if Linda came close. I heard the message on Dec 31, and immediately called Linda, she did not answer but she had left her address on the message. Being so excited that it might be Pookey, I drove to the residence...

Missing For 3 Days!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:41:25 PM

It all started late one night, coming home from hanging out with my friends when I walk inside and I see my puppy is gone! I asked my family members and parents about it, but they didn’t know anything. I immediately begin balling because I knew this was bad. I started my frantic search for Maui at 12 o’clock at night, screaming her name around my neighborhood. Thank god my friend Michael (now boyfriend) was there for me, we went straight to kinkos and made some flyers and stared to put them up everywhere. We didn’t get home till about 4 or 5 am that morning. I was completely heart-broken and felt so horrible being at my house with her missing. Within the next two hours myself, mike, another friend were back making more flyers. We put them up on every post we could see, we did this nonstop for 2 days with- no luck. But then a miracle happened. I get a phone call from HomeAgain!!! One of my neighbors was on the line saying that they found her at the YMCA! I hysterically started crying and thanking him. M...

Saved By His Yellow Tag!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 30, 2010 2:07:30 PM

Seems he went roaming looking for friends, a female Weimeraner in particular struck his fancy. After hanging out for almost three days in their yard, the family was finally able to coax Funki over, read his HomeAgain tag and he was home in minutes! Thank you all so much, best registration and safest return ever!

Brody's Back!!!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:52:10 AM

Our Jack Russel/Rat terrier mix, Brody, went missing while moving from Amarillo to Sterling City in June 2008. We had stopped at my parent's house in Brownfield, which is where Brody got out and ran away (he's the fastest dog I've ever seen!). We searched and searched, put ads in the paper, etc. but never found him. I reported him missing on HomeAgain hoping that would help... On December 27, 2010 we get a call from the City of Midland Animal Shelter, and an email from HomeAgain telling us Brody had been found! I could not believe it!! I thought about him all the time, but had just about given up on ever seeing him again. My family is so happy to have our Brody back! Thank you soo much!!

Happiest Thanksgiving

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:40:40 PM

Boris and her sister ran away in September when we moved into our new house. They spent the first night in their kennel and in the morning I let them out to explore their new yard. Unfortunately there was a construction crew working in the lot behind our house and they scared the cats away. I posted notices around the neighborhood and notified HomeAgain. Two months went by and I still searched for the cats every chance I had. The day after thanksgiving I got a call from a vet clinic saying that this nice lady had found one of my cats about a mile away from my house. The story was that she saw the cat around her neighborhood looking for food, but she was unable to catch her. She left food out and was able to trap her a couple of days later. She had spotted the yellow tag attached to my cat's collar and once she caught the cat she drove her to the clinic where they identified my Boris. They called me with the news and even drove Boris home! My baby was upset and refused to leave the house for da...

Bear Comes Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:07:50 AM

After a long day running errands, we came home very late that night only to find one of our dogs missing from the yard. Our dog Bear was able to squeeze under our front gate and escape while we were out. Bear is a shy, gentle German-Shepherd mix who is especially fond of horses and livestock. We figured he was so enthralled by the adjacent landowner’s cows and that he just couldn’t resist a visit. We looked all night for him, driving around the country roads we live by and calling out his name in the dark. We had no luck. Still, we hoped he would find his way home. I was heartbroken he didn’t come home that night. It was a very cold night and we live out in the country surrounded by many winding roads and vast fields. The dread that he had gotten hopelessly lost was growing in me. The next morning, we logged onto HomeAgain to report him missing and print out Lost Dog flyers. Another fruitless day of searching passed. It was getting dark and I was feeling very down. Then a phone call changed ...

The Return of Guapo

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 27, 2010 6:49:52 PM

While on the search for Guapo, one of my male German shepherds, I remembered that I had registered my dogs microchip with HomeAgain. I called up asap to get it registered. As soon as I did that they sent out alerts to vets and animal shelters in my area. Well good thing I registered it, because 20 minutes later an animal control officer called me to say that he had found my dog and to come pick him up. Since he did have a microchip I got a discount on the fees. Thanks to HomeAgain microchips. I have my best friend back with me.

Toby the Trooper

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 27, 2010 5:22:14 PM

Toby, an Australian Cattle Dachshund mix, was adopted and neutered on December 23, 2010. He was just left at the shelter 2 days before by his previous owner of 8 years. Staying the night at my boyfriend's home, the next morning - Christmas Eve - Toby escaped through the front door by guests who were leaving. In the rain, I chased him down the street. Once he turned the corner, I had lost him. I thought of stopping to see if he'd come back but I was worried he'd continue to run and I'd lose more ground. With 4 cars searching around the neighborhood, we had no luck. The next day my boyfriend and I put flyers around the neighborhood hoping someone would contact us. I was so worried because first, I had not put a name tag on him yet and he had just been neutered and was instructed to be dry and indoors. The weather had also dropped down to 30 degrees! I was unfamiliar with HomeAgain, but luckily I had the paperwork and started my account online and reported him missing. After 1 day of doing so, on Decem...

Holiday Miracle

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 24, 2010 9:35:16 PM

I was at work when I got a call from the shelter telling me that my dog had been found by a neighbor, and brought to their facility. They scanned him for a microchip and thankfully he had one! Before I even knew he was gone, I had an email and a message waiting for me to let me know that he was ok. I was so thankful to the person who had enough heart to bring Mickey back to me. I was shocked that he had gotten out, but so thankful that he had been found. I always knew that microchips were important to have, but I had only hear horror stories about lost pets. I never thought it could happen to me or one of my own pets. I took precautions, of course, but I never thought they would be needed. That was until a burglary attempt almost cost me a significant part of my life. Thank goodness for Christmas Eve miracles.

HomeAgain and Eggs Over Easy

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:44:40 PM

One evening, about 1 year ago I let my Golden Retriever, Chance outside to go potty. I put him out on his chain and went back inside. After about 30 min I went outside to let him back in and I noticed he was gone. He broke the chain and was nowhere to be found. I told my husband and we both immediately went out looking for him. He has a favorite ball that squeaks that I took along while calling for him, I squeaked the ball so he might hear it and come to us. We searched within a 3 mile radius until around midnight. Sobbing in my husband's arms, I reluctantly went home without my little boy. At dawn, I got up, got bundled up, grabbed the ball and went out searching again. About 30 minutes into my search my cell phone rang. It was HomeAgain. A lady found Chance that morning. I spoke to her and RAN to her home about a mile away. Crying and smiling, I saw Chance's orange fluffy tail before I saw her. I called for him and he tore after me. I can imagine that he was saying, "MOM!!! You found me!!" after...

HomeAgain Makes My Christmas Merry

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 20, 2010 8:36:35 PM

Yesterday evening, December 19th, my two Irish Setters got the gate open and off they went into a cold, snowy and very dark night. Fortunately (and very surprisingly) the female, Fancy, stayed close to home and she was back in the house within minutes of my neighbor alerting me that my two red fools were loose. Such was not the case with my male, Kirby. After driving around the neighborhood for 20 minutes or so looking for him, it occurred to me that I should head back home and call the local police to alert them that Kirby was missing. I don't know what made me pay attention to the blinking red light on my answering machine before making that call but I did. The first message was from HomeAgain, telling me that someone had found Kirby and that I should call for details. The 2nd message was from the alternate contact you have on file for me telling me that HomeAgain had contacted her and she was on her way to retrieve Kirby. I called her cell, got the details, and within minutes I had met up with the ma...

Home For The Holidays!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 18, 2010 8:14:58 PM

Braxton ran out of the front door to a busy street in an unfamiliar area. We had 4 people out searching for him for hours. I was so worried, especially once night fell and it was 35 degrees outside. I was so afraid of him being lost and cold. Day two, we called vets and posted flyers for his return. I received a voicemail from HomeAgain saying Braxton was found and to call back for information on his whereabouts. The customer service rep was polite, friendly, and compassionate and within 5 minutes I was in touch with the family who had found Braxton. Thirty minutes later he was safe and sound back at home! Just in time to leave town for the Holidays! I don't know what I would do if he was not in my life. Thanks so much HomeAgain!

Before We Knew It

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 17, 2010 1:30:16 AM

I got an email titled "We found Milo" and to my shock, the email said he had been picked up wandering and taken to a vet clinic about six miles from our farm and scanned. We didn't even know he was missing! He is an outdoor / barn cat and has free range of our property. We had seen him in the evening during chores and got the email before chores the next morning. Although our cats live in the barn, they have a temperature controlled environment, high quality food and regular grooming and vet care. We chipped them all because collars are impractical and unsafe for outdoor cats. And our township 'disposes' of cats whom are found without collars or chips. It was amazing how quickly he was found and reunited with us!

So Close Yet So Far!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:51:11 AM

After Chub-Chub's mom passed away (at age 16), Chub-Chub, a kitty that was indoors for almost 12 years, took off. I got her back from the Merrimack Feline Rescue that microchipped her when she was born. But Chub-Chub took off AGAIN! ONE YEAR LATER, I received a call from HomeAgain that she was brought to the vet for a routine checkup from the new owner- my neighbor!!! Two doors down, Chub-Chub became Cinderella and very much loved by an elderly couple. Cinderella learned to love the garden, the antique store they own, and doesn't even have any dogs to share the house with either. Long story short, Cinderella will live her elder years as a Princess, and I can still see her whenever I want to! Although she will be dearly missed, I have 4 other kitties and 2 dogs as well.

Bam HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:45:24 PM

Bam never came home the evening of August 1, 2010, this was not the first time he was gone overnight. Three years ago Bam was lost for four months before being found. Every day he was missing our family began to fear the worse, but I knew he was just up to his old tricks and out on the town. Then on Halloween night October 31, 2010, I received a phone call from HomeAgain. A resident more than 30 miles away had found him and had taken him to a vet to be checked. Thanks to the chip he was back home the next day. I am so Thankful for the family that found him and cared enough to take him to a vet to be checked out, and thank you HomeAgain for all your help!

Traveling Cat

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 13, 2010 2:55:17 PM

Cookie was lost for 3 months. I am currently 28 years old and had found Cookie outside a parking lot when I was 15. All these years he was more than a pet. He was family. Needless to say, I was devastated, when he got lost during a move. Luckily a kind person took care of him and called HomeAgain. Cookie and I were reunited. This time forever! :)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 10, 2010 6:29:01 PM

Friday Dec 10, 2010- Beazer the beagle got off her lead and was found at a golf course in Clayton by a very nice young man named Evan. Evan saw the cold and sad beagle and took her home. He took great care of the beagle (who his girlfriend named Stella). Not knowing what to do with Stella, Evan called his mom, Kay, who lives in Charlotte for help. Kay asked her friend John what to do. John said call Brittany, with the rescue group “A New Leash On Life” Dog Rescue and maybe she can help you. I told Kay we could take the beagle. I met Sydney, Evan's girlfriend in Raleigh and got Stella. I took Stella to work, where she met lots of my co workers and she chilled out on the couch in my office. That night I took Stella home where she met all my foster dogs. The next day I took her to the vet (Companion Animal Hospital) and got her vaccinations etc... and asked to have her checked to see if she had a microchip. Barbara the tech ran the scanner over her back and voila a number came up!! The tech ran to th...

Foster The Deer-Whisperer

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 10, 2010 2:51:21 PM

11:15pm (last night)- Foster and I go outside for his normal, pre-bedtime potty-time. Foster hears the soft noises of deer and decides that he'd rather play with them, and took off. 3:45 am - I finally give up looking for him by foot/car. I can't cry anymore and my face is frozen from the cold (it was 28 degrees). My mind raced of all the possibilities and sleep was not an option. I at least had enough logic left through my emotions to remember that I had registered Foster as a pup with HomeAgain. So I logged on and created a lost dog notification - not really sure how or IF it would work. 7:15am - I received a phone call from HomeAgain, who connected me with Shannon who found my boy as she walked her own dog before work!! What an angel she is and thankfully she knew exactly what to do when she saw the HomeAgain tag on Foster's collar. As a result of Shannon and HomeAgain, I am reunited with Foster and we will have an intervention on his obsession with ice and "deer-whispering" ways - or at least...

Hansel and Gretel

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:18:12 PM

Just like the story book, Hansel and Gretel are brother and sister. The only two from this litter- I just had to have them both. Again like the story book, as soon as your back was turned they would run out of the yard. I then purchased them training collars, but they still managed from to escape their bounds from time to time. I then purchased some WIFI collars and they are excellent. However, on 12/5/10 Hansel and Gretel were outside doing their business. I then realized that they had the training collars on. I ran to the house for the remotes, but It was too late. They were running towards the fields and woods. They were out of sight. I drove around throughout the night, checking with neighbors. Unlike the story book there was no bread crumbs to follow. On 12/6/10 I received an e-mail and a phone call that the local Veterinary center took in a pet with Gretel’s microchip numbers. I was so excited but yet disappointed. Gretel is now back in her warm home. I am still searching for Hansel. Again, ...

Money Well Spent

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 06, 2010 9:49:45 PM

On December 5, 2010 one of my two Labradors, a Chocolate Lab named Holly (the instigator of many adventures), must have talked my White Lab Colby (the fun loving if not very bright sometime) other Lab into leaving the yard. Neither Lab wears a collar because both chew theirs off on a regular basis. I searched all over the place for both of my dogs, I even went to the dog park near my home thinking they just wanted to go play. I could not find them at all. Our family was saddened by the thought of never seeing our dogs again. We did not know what to do or where else to look. I then realized I had both dogs chipped when they were puppies. I didn't know how to activate the services attached to the chips. I didn't know who to call. I waited until the next day December 6, 2010, with hope and a prayer I called the vet clinic that installed Colby's chip. I was told his chip was registered with Home Again and they gave me the telephone number to contact the company. I called the large nationally know...

Dixie and Sebastian Go For A Hike

Found Pets Home — Monday, December 06, 2010 10:28:43 AM

We have two dogs, Dixie (a Brittany) and Sebastian (our Golden Retriever). Our gate came open and they escaped in our neighborhood in northwest Austin. I panicked. A nice gentleman picked them up, called HomeAgain and held the dogs in the back of his pickup until we were called to retrieve our dogs. He was a quail hunter and knew the value of our dogs. Thank you for all your help! Every dog needs a chip (and a nice quail hunter).

Sophie the Survivor

Found Pets Home — Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:26:56 PM

The Best Christmas Present Ever

Found Pets Home — Saturday, December 04, 2010 7:40:26 PM

I lost Pennie at a grocery store when she jumped out of my car. A family found Pennie wandering around the street during a snow storm and picked her up. They took her to the nearest Vet and, with the help of the microchip, located me to reunite us. In my excitement, I didn't get the name of the family before they left. So, I really want them to know how grateful I am for their concern and quick action. To HomeAgain: Thank you so much for your service in helping find my pup. She wouldn't have been located if it wasn't for the microchip. You saved my heart! Thank you all for helping find my baby.

Honey Is Home After 1 Year and 19 Days!

Found Pets Home — Friday, December 03, 2010 12:43:21 AM

My sweet baby, Honey, was stolen shortly after she got out of our fence November 4, 2009. We knew someone took her, but could not prove it. We never gave up hope endlessly searching for proof. On November 23, 2010, someone took her to the vet. There, they always scan new dogs. That evening, the vet clinic called to tell us that they had our Honey! Thank you so much HomeAgain! This story couldn't have this happy ending if it weren't for you!

Our Happy Homecoming!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:01:07 PM

What a blessing the Home Again microchip has been for Max and the people he ”owns!" We were out of the country on vacation in South Africa when our precious little guy went AWOL Thanksgiving weekend. Max was staying with his usual, wonderful sitters. While they were busy hanging outside Christmas lights, he managed to slip out of their house and yard without being noticed. While they thought he was safely napping under their bed, he was out exploring the neighborhood! Thankfully, Max was spotted by a very caring and responsible dog-lover. This young man knew Max was in great danger wandering the streets, so he took him in to our local Humane Society where he was quickly identified by his chip. My alternate contact – my sister who lives two states away – was called and she quickly went to work calling friends and neighbors to help track down our dog sitter. Within two hours, Max was safe and sound back in the sitter’s home. Tonight we returned home to a joyous reunion with little Max – All...

Lost, Lost, Lost

Found Pets Home — Thursday, December 02, 2010 6:13:30 PM

Cheyenne was lost for almost three months in Los Angeles. I kept checking shelters. One showed us a different dog, even though they unknowingly had Cheyenne as well. When they were about to adopt her out, they checked Cheyenne to see if she was spayed. That was when they found her microchip and called us. We were thrilled! We are so very grateful for HomeAgain. Thank you!

Gone for 32 Days

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:47:57 PM

Lily got out last month through an unlatched gate. After numerous poster hangings, online ads, HomeAgain flyers, and false hopes, the kids were devastated. We gave up hope and figured someone found and kept her, or something worse had happened. A private citizen saw her wandering around and called animal control, who then promptly called me upon scanning her microchip We picked her up as soon as possible. She was found about two miles away from us, and had crossed two highway overpasses. She had been roaming around for 30 days through rainy/cold Bay Area weather but still managed to stay strong, but hungry and thirsty. Now, she is back home again and recouperating - with a vet visit planned for tomorrow morning. :)

Another Lost Black Cat

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 29, 2010 4:45:37 PM

Every Shelter has some black cats that have become lost and are never re-united with their owners. Last week someone brought to our Shelter a healthy, but hungry, large black cat. He was scanned and he had a HomeAgain chip. As he cowered in the back of his cage, we called the owners. Seconds after the entire family arrived to rescue their cat, we heard a loud howl from our Intake room. That black cat had come alive; he had heard his family and he wanted out. He howled until he saw his family through the crate door. He knew he was going home. Thanks to a HomeAgain microchip, he was no longer another lost cat.

Missing For 26 Days

Found Pets Home — Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:19:02 AM

My cat Orangino came home around 12:30 AM this morning, about half an hour after I had received a call from HomeAgain that connected me with a local organization that supports Trap-Neuter-Release programs for stray/feral cats. The women I spoke with was about 2 miles away and said she saw a "new" orange cat at her feeding station and contacted HomeAgain when she received the "lost cat" poster. I live in a sparsely populated wooded area and the nearest neighbor is about 1/4 mile away. It was very comforting to receive the call and hear her discuss her plan for trapping the cat to see if it was Orangino. I went to bed with hope in my heart about finding him and about 15 minutes after I was in bed, I heard a strange cry from downstairs that didn't sound like any of the other cats and also heard a rattling at the slider door. I went downstairs and there he was, crying to come in! He was skinnier and had about 8 ticks on him, but otherwise OK. And very typical of cats, there were no explanati...

Lucy Is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Thursday, November 25, 2010 2:47:29 AM

My boys went to McDonald's today on their bikes and upon their return, they put their bikes in the backyard and forgot to close the gate. After 6 hours, it was discovered Lucy, our black lab, was missing. We drove around looking for her with no luck. Called HomeAgain to report her missing only to find that they had just received a call that she was at the animal shelter, safe and sound. The day before Thanksgiving- we are truly thankful we chipped her with HomeAgain!!!!! It's going to be a wonderful thanksgiving :)

Found Thanks to HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 22, 2010 5:44:30 PM

Our dog was last seen playing in our yard in the country. He was never one to not come when called, or at very least make some noise so we knew where he was. On Saturday, though, we called for hours, and didn't even hear his collar tags jingle. We had to go out, and figured that when we got home we would find him curled on a deck chair like he so often was- unfortunately, when we got home, still no puppy. I went on the HomeAgain site to report him missing, and decided to click on the "Tips for Finding Your Lost Pet" tag. One of the things it advised was to not sit back and wait. For whatever reason, that struck a chord with me, so my daughter and I got in the car at 10:30 that night and started driving to look for him. We stopped at a nearby church that had several people still around, to ask if they'd seen him. As it turns out, several of them had, and said they thought the town police had picked him up. We don't live within the city limits, but I took my chances and called the non-emergency nu...

Zena is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:12:35 PM

Our beloved pet Zena ran away on Wednesday November 17, 2010. We searched for many hours driving around. We even made a trip to the local animal shelter. We posted on HomeAgain that our pet was lost. We also posted on other websites about her missing. On Saturday November 20, 2010, my husband received a call letting us know that a wonderful man named Matt had picked up our dog not too far from our home and that he had bathed her because of her filthy trip, took her to the vet to get her scanned for a chip. Matt said our pet was at Pet Smart and to go get her. He said he and his wife just loved Zena but didn't have the resources to keep her as much as they would have liked to. He said maybe one day he could have one just like Zena, maybe even one of her pups. I said I am so sorry, she is fixed, but told him where we got her at and he said he liked that. I went and got Zena and she looked so sad until I said her name. Her tail beat that cage to no end and they just knew she was mine. ...

4 Year Walk-About

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:02:19 PM

I was given Sam when he was 6 years old from a friend who could no longer keep him. I only had him for a few months when he decided to go on a walk-about. I put up posters everywhere!!!! There is a large apartment complex, 515 units, about 1 block from my house. I went so far as to hire a company to place a Lost Pet Poster at every door in the complex with Sam's picture and a reward. No response from anyone. My friends and I drove around that apartment complex for months to see if we could spot him. Nothing! Sam went missing on January 2, 2007. On November 7, 2010 I got a call from a emergency animal hospital at 12:45 am saying some people had just turned in a dog named Sam and he was registered to my telephone number through his chip from HomeAgain. Prior to him going missing I had had him chipped when I had his teeth cleaned. When I went and got him from the emergency hospital he was a mess. His hair was long and matted, he couldn't see out of his eyes from all the long hair hanging down ...

Rescue Dog Found After 4 Months

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 20, 2010 9:22:39 AM

Brownie was a new rescue dog that had a heartworm and was on his way to the vet's to start his treatment when he escaped from his foster home. He had been previously owned but given away due to his heartworm condition. Poor Brownie was in bad shape, had horrible skin and coat and scared to death. Despite lots of flyers, phone calls, and over 4 months of searching and postings for this dog, it seemed as though he just disappeared. Then one day a vet called to say they had Brownie in, to start his heartworm treatment and they found a microchip while vetting him. He had been found 5 miles away three weeks after he originally ran away. He was starving and lay down to die under a bush in a yard. The homeowners found him and kept him. The microchip had migrated down his shoulder and missed detection 4 times. They loved him and had taken great care of him and adopted him, but we were finally able to meet him again and made sure his heartworms were taken care of. He could not have picked a better fa...

Remarkable Return

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:48:53 PM

I let Luther and my other dog out to go to bathroom, one dog came back in after, but Luther was not responding to the whistles or calling his name. Within a half hour HomeAgain was on the phone with someone who found him following her sons. She was about 7 houses down on the same street-I almost ran down the street to get him back. I had lost my husband 3 months ago and the thought of losing a great friend would have been devastating. Thank you so much for a great peace of mind.

Diego is Home

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 15, 2010 10:05:28 AM

Our little Diego slipped out of the house when we were bringing in groceries and didn't notice that he been gone when more than a half hour had past. We combed the neighborhood for more than two hours but came up with nothing. I came in and logged into HomeAgain’s website and made sure Diego's info was up to date and reported him lost. We were all sad and scared because Diego had just got a bath that day and was without his collar and it was getting cold outside. But thanks to a woman who picked him up and took him to a shelter, who scanned him for a microchip and contacted HomeAgain to notify us that he had been found. This all happened less than a half hour after I reported him lost on HomeAgain's website. Thanks to a good person who refused any reward just happy to have brought him home and didn't have to leave him in a shelter, we are happy that he was found. Thanks to HomeAgain's pet recovery system and Diego's microchip, we may have never seen him again. Thanks HomeAgain!

Houdini Dog

Found Pets Home — Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:56:57 AM

My dog apparently is related to Houdini. She escapes from the back yard and gets into other people's back yards and no one knows how she does it! The HomeAgain phone operator called an hour and a half after she got out, while we'd been scouring the neighborhood for her. She was found in a back yard about 2 blocks from home. If she hadn't had the Hom Again tag, we may never have known what happened to her!! I was so happy to get that phone call from HomeAgain!

Otah's Story

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 13, 2010 4:13:37 PM

Even though he had only been missing for 15 hours, it was still devastating to me. He is all I have left, Otah is my best friend, my pride and joy, my soul mate. What happened is that someone found him soaking wet in 30 degree temp early in the morning and brought him home because they had to go out of town. They were going start calling the next morning to see if anyone has lost a pet. I was driving around all night and all day looking for him, I downloaded the HomeAgain Pet Finder Posters and put them in a 15 mile radius of my home, the people who found him just happened to tell someone who told someone who saw one of the flyers. Thank you HomeAgain for making it so easy and providing a personalized lost pet poster- without it I may still be crying and driving all over looking for him. Thank you also for sending notices out to the vets in the area, who in turn posted them right away. Great Service!

Thank Goodness We Had Him Microchiped!!!

Found Pets Home — Friday, November 12, 2010 7:40:59 PM

Our gate was left open for the meter reader. I came home to let the dogs out, forgetting one of the gates was open- and Teddy ran out. I looked everywhere for him and put up lost dog posters. He did not have his collar on. My family spent a very sad night worried that he had been hit by a car or stolen. We prayed that a nice person had picked him up and would get him scanned... and our prayers were answered. HomeAgain called the nest day and connected us with the person who found him. HomeAgain, you ROCK!! Thank God for you!

Today My Dog Is Home

Found Pets Home — Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:11:22 AM

On July, 9th 2010 I came home to find out that my dog, Shakira, was gone. We looked everywhere and put up posters. I cried every night for about 2 weeks, I was so sad I just kept hoping that she would not get hurt and she would just come home. After 3 months I wouldn't say I that gave up- but she is so beautiful that I thought someone had to have found her and kept her. Yesterday evening I received a call from the pound that Shakira was there. She was picked up by a CHP Officer about 27 miles away from where we live. I cried for what seemed like forever. I was scared to see her because I thought she might not remember us. Since the pound was closed I picked her up today and she seems to remember me. I will say, never ever give up because as you can see, 4 months to the day my dog is home now. Thanks HomeAgain, because if she wasn't chipped she would have never came home. I am so happy I can't believe it still. I love my dog. And my kids are so happy too. So anything is possible, trust me I know.

Coty Returns Home

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, November 10, 2010 6:07:11 PM

As he and his pet parents moved 62 miles to their new country home, Cody leaped off their truck and disappeared into the woods. See how his HomeAgain microchip helped bring him back together with his family just hours later!

Our Missing Princess

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 08, 2010 9:36:46 AM

Bailey and her pink collar went missing Friday afternoon. We went out, but when we arrived home she was still not there. We were scheduled to leave town that night so we called in the “troops" to find her while we were away. Sunday afternoon she still was not home. I notified HomeAgain, in hopes that they would help me spread the word that our little girl was missing. I printed out Lost Pet Poster after poster that HomeAgain had put together for me, and put them out at midnight Sunday night- in hopes that someone would see them on their way to work or school Monday morning. Monday morning at 7:50 am someone called us with the news that they had Bailey, and they had been trying to find us. Thank you to HomeAgain for bringing our "Princess Wanderer" home to us. We could not have done it without you!

Gone Through The Woods

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:59:49 PM

I was on vacation at my lake house with my family and two dogs Louie (over a year old) and Daisy (16 years old) in PA. After being there for no more than an hour, my dogs had vanished. Louie had figured out how to open the doors on our deck and they had disappeared into the woods and out of sight. We drove around looking for them; we looked near the lake, around the streets, and everywhere we could think of. Finally, after no trace of them, we returned home. Later that night we heard a scratch at the back door and we opened it to find Louie standing there, shaking from the cold. We were happy to see him and he ran by the fireplace to curl up after giving lots of kisses to all the family members he could get a hold of, but Daisy was still nowhere to be found. What worried us the most was not only the fact that we were in an unfamiliar area and that she was 16 years old, but that Louie had come back without her. They had run away before and Louie would ALWAYS make sure she came back with Daisy, he would...

Thank God For The Kindness Of Strangers

Found Pets Home — Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:29:07 PM

Our dog, Canis, dug out of our backyard on a Friday evening. We went searching for her and put signs up all over our neighborhood, but had no luck finding her. Late Saturday morning, we received a phone call from HomeAgain and they had a woman on the line that had found our dog. Apparently our dog had decided to go to the busy highway, and this kind woman picked up our dog before she got onto the highway and took her home for the evening. On Saturday morning she took our dog to her vet and they scanned for her chip but it didn't show up (user error with the scanning device), as she was speaking with the vet, the receptionist received the lost dog flyer from HomeAgain on their fax machine, they rescanned our dog and found the chip. We met with the woman shortly after speaking with her and our dog was returned to us! I'm so thankful for HomeAgain and this wonder stranger for picking up our dog before she got killed on the highway.

A "Rocky" Reunion

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 01, 2010 12:33:50 PM

My very much loved, wiggle-butt, funny personality Australian Shepherd, ROCKY, had been missing since Saturday afternoon. He was last seen around 4:30 pm that day, at our home in the rural area of Gloucester, VA. Black Powder Hunting Season had just opened that same day, and we had heard LOTS of gunfire. (If you didn't know already, black powder guns make a REALLY LOUD BOOM, and shake the earth… louder than shotguns.) Rocky is scared to death of gunshots. I'm sure he heard and felt a very loud boom, and got scared and ran somewhere, or, I feared, he had even gotten shot. By Sunday morning, I was so upset and wanted my big boy (about 90 pounds) to come home! I went walking through the woods, hoping I'd find him. I was yelling his name all over the place. I went riding up and down our street, windows down, hollering his name. I stopped and talked to some hunters who had not seen him but promised to be on the lookout for him. They told me that some hunters would shoot a dog just for scaring off the...

My Maggie

Found Pets Home — Monday, November 01, 2010 12:16:49 PM

We were so glad to get Maggie back home with us, we have had her for 4 years. Someone picked her up and gave her to a friend, knowing she had a microchip, and gave her to a friend 20 miles away. We would have never found her if it wasn't for HomeAgain, thank you so much! We love Maggie so much and can't imagine losing her, we are so glad she is back HomeAgain with us!

Free Willy!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:35:09 PM

Willy didn't come in one morning, so I knew something was wrong. He didn't come back all day and I knew the second morning of not seeing him, it was time to contact HomeAgain and get the word out around town. My boy was in trouble! Within a couple hours, I had a call from Lied Animal Shelter that Willy was there and not injured. It turns out that a neighbor a couple streets away has a trap by their house and Animal Control had picked him up. When we called directly, Animal Control couldn't give us any information / confirmation over the phone. It wasn't until the alert went out with his microchip number that Lied was able to determine they had him. I have told many people since Willy's misadventure that it was having that chip that saved him and ALL our animals are microchipped. Thank you HomeAgain!

Never Far From Home

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:59:42 PM

It was a bit blustery, and the front door caught a draft and blew open. I was in another room, and came back to both of my dogs missing from the apartment. They're familiar with our apartment complex, so I wasn't too worried, and found one, Chipotle, not far from our place. He came running up, and I saw Panera for just a brief moment, before she took off running. I searched for hours, but to no avail. I checked that evening with our local Humane Society shelter, and while I found a large number of adorable dogs, cats, birds, and even a pig, there was no sign of Panera. We enlisted our friends in the hunt, but there was no success. I love my dogs, and by nine o'clock that evening, I was visibly upset. There seemed to be nothing else I could do but wait and pray. I checked the Humane Society database, Craigslist, and every lost and found site I could find, ever hour for the rest of the night and into the morning. All hope seemed to be lost, but I remembered the HomeAgain microchip we had give...

Cat Found After 2 and A Half Months

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:06:43 PM

Even though the animal shelter told me to keep checking back, I stopped looking after about a month. Yesterday the shelter called and someone had brought my cat in from many miles away and we were quickly reunited thanks to the microchip. My children and family are so incredibly happy to have our cat back and he was thrilled after hunting to feed himself to have a big bowl of cat food. Thanks HomeAgain!!!!

Jack Came Back

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:52:43 AM

In September 2006, I took my two children to the local animal shelter to adopt a kitten. In the kitten interaction room he kept jumping up on my daughter's lap to cuddle. We knew from the beginning that Jack was meant to be in our family. Jack came home with a microchip. He also came home with an illness. Within a few days he was very sick. My friends and family encouraged me to take him back to the shelter, but I knew if I did that he would be euthanized. I cried and cried; I was amazed at how attached I was to this little creature after only a few days. I took him to the vet, and she told us that he had what looked like a kitty version of parvovirus and that his little body probably wouldn't be able to fight it off. The vet's office very graciously offered to keep him and give him fluids under his skin. He stayed 3 days. After losing almost half his body weight he finally turned a corner and started getting better. I was so relieved! 2009 was a difficult year for our family. A divorce and then...

Home Again Pet ID Helped Find My Dog

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:59:10 PM

I was at work when I got a call from the local vet. They had asked for my name and asked if I was missing my pet. I told the lady over the phone that I was not. She then asked where I live, and if she had the right information. She then asks me to confirm the name of my pet, I told her it was my red Doberman, Leila. Well it turns out that my dog had left my home, was roaming the street and was picked up by a nice lady who turned her into her vet. They scanned my dog and found the chip and then notified me. I went to pick up my dog an hour later. I could only imagine how sad I would be if I had come home to a missing pet. If it wasn’t for the HomeAgain ID I would probably still be looking for my pet now.

Adventures In A New City

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:53:25 PM

My husband recently accepted a job promotion that moved us from rural Arkansas to the big city of Fort Worth, Texas. We have been in the city 8 days now. One of the last things we did before the move was to have our small Cockapoo Davy microchipped and registered with HomeAgain. Thank goodness we did that! Today Davy slipped through an open hotel window and jaunted through the traffic to an industrial park 1/4 mile away. He's so small and very quiet most of the time--I never realized he had left the room! Davy loves people and went to the first man he saw outside. The man who found him said he could tell Davy was lost by how frightened he was. Davy has a large fenced yard at home and also enjoys roaming "his" pasture with our horses. The city is a different environment, one he is not familiar with. Fortunately, the man checked Davy's tags and saw the yellow microchip ID tag--and called an agent at HomeAgain, who called me immediately. Davy was back to our rooms in minutes--I don't kn...

Long Lost Friend

Found Pets Home — Monday, October 25, 2010 3:06:58 PM

I got Connan in the summer of 2006, when he was only 8 weeks old, from a vender at a flea market in Lexington. I had Connan for a long time and he was a really good dog. I enjoyed his company and I know he enjoyed mine. I injured my knee when Connan was 2 1/2 years old. I wasn't able to walk or go out and feed Connan so I left my parents in charge of his care. One day my Mother went out to feed Connan just like any other day and Connan was no longer in his kennel. Connan had ran away because my dad the previous day before, did not shut the door all the way. I searched for Connan for 2 months. I called every vet, every pound, and looked everywhere. The search came up nowhere. I soon had to go on with my life without him. Two years later I decided to get another dog, I named him Bronx. He was a pitbull of course, just like Connan. On occasion, I would think back and wonder about what happened to that dog, I lost long ago. One night, on March 15, 2011, I got an unexpected phone call from HomeAgain Pet Fi...

Niko's Happy Ending

Found Pets Home — Monday, October 25, 2010 3:02:50 PM

We had 4 dogs traveling from Augusta, GA to Savannah, and during one of our fuel stops, we let all dogs out for a potty break. Everyone assumed that all dogs were accounted for. Upon arrival in Savannah, we were all shocked at the absence of Niko, the quietest of the 4 dogs. As we frantically searched for Niko, a sinking feeling of loss began to set in. But then a call came in to my cell phone from a HomeAgain representative, stating that Niko had been found. They immediately put us in touch with the family that found our dog, and we made our coordination to retrieve our Niko. The family who found Niko was a wonderful pet-loving family, with many pets of their own. They used the PetID tag on Niko's collar to contact HomeAgain to try to locate us. If it wasn't for the tag and the kindness of the family that found our dog, we would be devastated by the loss of Niko. From the time we left the service station to about 45 miles away, it was within an hour that we got the call notifying us of Niko being fou...

Thank Goodness for Microchipping!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 23, 2010 7:19:20 PM

Roxanne got spooked and pulled out of her collar which held her name tag, license, and other identifying information. She took off deep into the woods where I couldn't catch her. After she failed to return home for most of the day, I registered her as a lost dog on the HomeAgain website. This morning we received a call from HomeAgain with the contact information of a wonderful individual who had seen her! She was exactly where this good citizen reported her and she's now back home with her family.

Rocky Escapes Dog Theft Ring

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 22, 2010 5:44:29 PM

Rocky was a 1 year old beagle in a privacy fenced back yard. He is Mr. Social and loves anyone. One day he was gone with no explanation of how he got out. No holes, fence too high to jump, lock on the gate. We searched for months to find him and went to the city kennels weekly and called daily. We finally gave up and Moved to Colorado. He had been gone 14 months and the ABQ pound called us and said they had Rocky and had used his chip to find us. They stated he had a huge chain around his neck and was very skinny and dirty. We came from Colorado to a very happy reunion!! He remembered us right away and was so excited to see us. We took him home to Colorado and 1 month later got a call that a Dog theft ring had been arrested in ABQ who were stealing pure bred dogs, chaining them and then selling them on the internet. They found a picture of Rocky chained to a stake with no cover, food or water. He had obviously worked to break the chain and had escaped and was surviving on the streets when p...

Thank You HomeAgain For Your Help!!!

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 22, 2010 2:11:04 PM

My 4 lb. Chihuahua escaped from my backyard recently. My son and I looked all over the neighborhood for him and posted flyers. The next morning I logged into Home Again and reported him missing. Within 5 minutes I received a phone call from a local Vet advising that they had found my dog and were calling me because of the microchip!!!! Without HomeAgain I probably would have lost my best friend. Thank you so much!!

An Awesome Birthday Present

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 22, 2010 2:07:21 PM

My cat usually wanders in and out of the house throughout the day. On Tuesday, however, he never came back. I became worried the next day, as he is rarely out for more than a few hours, and there is a large road relatively close to my house. I went and alerted the closest shelter that my cat was missing, and put out a missing pet alert on the HomeAgain website. Despite hours of searching, I had no luck in finding my kitty. Friday was my 21st birthday, and I began thinking I'd maybe never see him again. Then, around noon, I received a call from HomeAgain telling me someone found a cat that looked like mine. We arranged a meeting, and sure enough, she had found my Snoop. I couldn't possibly ask for a better birthday present, and I think HomeAgain is an amazing service. I really don't think I would have gotten my cat back without it.

Reunited After 9 Weeks!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:03:14 PM

While we were living in AZ, our cat wondered off one afternoon. When she hadn't returned in 24 hours, we immediately reported her missing on the HomeAgain website, and printed off the fliers that they have ready for you to use. We posted the fliers and called the vets. We went to the shelters and asked our neighbors. She was nowhere to be found. At five weeks with no word, we were heartbroken. We had heard coyotes howling near our home, and thought our cat, Nutmeg, was lost forever. Then four weeks later, 9 weeks after our kitty was first missing, we received a phone call from the county shelter. They had our Nutmeg!! She had been hiding in a cactus patch in an elderly woman's yard, and as soon as the woman spotted her, she called animal control. Nutmeg had lost her collar during her time out of the house, so she had no identification on her. The shelter told us that they scan EVERY animal that arrives in their facility. Nutmeg was the very first cat that they had seen with a chip. Nutmeg passed...

Poppy's Big Adventure

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:09:15 PM

Our sweet dog wandered away while we were visiting far from home. It was a nice, safe neighborhood but she was trailing her leash -- so we were mostly worried about her getting trapped somewhere. We searched and called and even enlisted the help of neighbors and the local police. Evening came and we finally had to leave for home knowing that she had her Home Again chip and tag for identification. On our way, HomeAgain called with the good news that Poppy had been found just a few houses away from where we were visiting -- but this was about 3 hours after she went missing! We will never know where she was during that time, but we are very grateful to have her back, safe and sound.

Bishop Returns Home After 2 Months

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:01:01 PM

See how a microchip helps reunite Bishop with his family, after a 70 mile journey.

A Long 24 Hours

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 20, 2010 6:32:24 AM

I came home from running errands to find that one of our kids had left a screen door open just wide enough for our Bulldog to sneak out. It had been at least an hour but we split up to look for her, driving around, searching neighboring yards on foot, and asking anyone we saw. We finally talked to someone who had spotted her and confirmed it by mentioning her pink-painted nails. That was our only lead and despite continued searching, we went to bed that night without Jade. I reported her lost with HomeAgain, knowing that it may be just a waiting game. The next afternoon, my daughter’s boyfriend spotted her two blocks away. He asked at the house where she was, but the people tried to say that she was theirs and they had recently bought her. We were able to identify her by her painted nails and rabies tag, and although she was not wearing her HomeAgain tag. When we informed the people that she indeed had a chip and that we'd be glad to take them with us to get her scanned, they finally admitted that...

Found Fast!!!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:25:45 PM

We were at the local park like usual, when a loud noise from skateboarding kids spooked our 6 month old lab mix, Sophie. She darted off. Took off across the entire park, down the road, and hopped a fence. My husband went after her, but as soon as she took the fence he lost sight of her and she was gone. We all quickly packed into the car and looked for at least 2 hours, but to no avail. When we came home I started putting her lost dog report into the HomeAgain, and my husband couldn't handle just sitting here so he went to look some more. Not 20 minutes after posting on HomeAgain I received a call from HomeAgain that someone had found my baby. I was so relieved I cried like a baby... I am so grateful to HomeAgain, and the wonderful woman Rosa who took her in and called. Thank you!

He Was In The Crawlspace!

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 15, 2010 12:29:41 AM

Our landlord was over one Saturday fixing some plumbing issues, so the door to the crawlspace was open for about an hour. Later that evening I noticed that I hadn't seen Jinx all afternoon. This wasn't completely unusual because he likes to hide in various nooks and crannies (especially when our two-year-old is awake), so I didn't think much of it. By late morning the next day when I noticed he hadn't eaten his food I started to get worried. We assumed he had gotten out the door somehow while the landlord was bringing equipment in and out. We looked all around the neighborhood, asked neighbors if they'd seen him, and called the local animal shelters, but there was no sign of him. It even struck me that he might be down in the crawlspace so I had my husband check. The next night when we had practically given up hope that he was coming home (our house backs up to a very busy street and unfortunately our previous cat escaped and was hit by a car) we got a call from HomeAgain! Apparently our crazy cat...

Sparkles In The Lightning

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:07:40 PM

"It was a dark and stormy night" as the story goes. We were all tucked in to enjoy the storm, complete with thunder and lightning. All four dogs were in their respective chosen sleeping spots. My son called me (about 2 a.m.) to come out on our deck to see the wonderful lightening show so I grabbed a robe and ran to our back deck (leaving the door open). After the storm slowed we headed back inside, not realizing until the next day that we were one dog short. Panic hit. No Sparkle. We made posters, called animal control, the vet, everyone, including HomeAgain. By the 3rd day we were hoarse from driving around and calling for Sparkle, at all hours of the day and night and almost ready to begin the sad vigil of "dead or alive". We live in a rural area and have a variety of wild critters eager to have a meal on a nice plump dog. Late in the afternoon the phone rang. I was almost afraid to answer. All the neighbors know Sparkle and would know where to call if they found her. It was my of...

Lost But Certainly Not Forgotten!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:53:35 PM

My daughter's first dog, an eleven month old Scottish terrier named "Scooter", got out in late July 2007. We looked and looked for that boy for months, but never found him. My daughter was so heartbroken. Our only hope for ever finding him again was the HomeAgain microchip we had put in him when he was a puppy. My daughter never gave up hope for finding him and still talked about him from time to time. Then on 10/12/2010 I received a call from HomeAgain informing me that Scooter had been rescued in Dallas Texas. I immediately contacted Angie, the rescue lady that had found Scooter. Within the hour I was on my way to Dallas from Oklahoma City. When I arrived at Angie's home she had Scooter there in front, waiting on me. We recognized each other right away. He was in very rough shape. He'd been living in a very bad neighborhood running the streets. By 9 pm that evening there was a tearful reunion with my daughter and Scooter. We owe our deepest thanks to Angie M and the pet finder service...

Miracle Made Possible

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:42:29 PM

As we closed on our new house, I thought to myself Gator would love the new yard. But I thought he might get confused and try to find his way back to the old place. We took him to our vet and had him chipped. Low and behold, 4 months after moving he came up missing. Posters, phone calls, classified ads...tried it all. After 8 months missing we had given up hope. Then a call from the local shelter today, and he is home. He was found miles away across 2 freeways, it is a miracle he is back...A miracle made possible by HomeAgain.

8 months and 500 miles!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:21:47 AM

Our English Bully, Lucy was taken from our yard in Feb 2010 though we looked for her for weeks, we were unable to find her. 3 months after her disappearance we were sent from Fort Benning, GA to Fort Knox, KY. We were sure we'd never see Lucy again! 8 months to the day she went missing I received an email from HomeAgain saying Lucy had been found! She was still in GA. We are trying to get Lucy home to Kentucky, unfortunately she wasn't cared for properly and was ill when picked up and pregnant. We can't wait to get her home and get her well!!!

4 Years Later!!!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:49:17 PM

We moved into a new house and about 1 month later, Tigger got out. We have no idea how he got out because he was an indoor only cat. We thought that maybe he would try to go back to where we lived before but he never showed up. We hoped and prayed that he would come back and if not, he was at least being cared for. Tigger never left our minds and we still talk about him today. He was the best cat I have ever known!! He went missing in 2006. A few months back I received a phone call from HomeAgain and VCA. They had Tigger!! All I could do was cry! I couldn't believe it! He had been with a wonderful family for the last few years and was being well taken care of!! The reason that he was at the vet was because he had been hit by a car, BUT he was ok!! We were allowed to come down and see him and all I did again, was cry... Talking to the lady that had him and the vet, we decided to not take him back. We knew how it felt to lose him and we could not pull him away from someone else that loved him as much a...

Across State Lines - But Found!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, October 10, 2010 6:26:16 PM

Our girl has been on the trip of a lifetime, but is coming home! Somehow, someway...she made it from Oklahoma City, OK to Brownwood, TX. Prizely is a jumper, but had been good about staying in our yard. Unfortunately, we think she was spooked by some fireworks after the 4th of July and off she went. She had never been gone this long, so we knew that someone had her (neighbor had been harboring her in the past and someone had tried to tell our vet that we no longer wanted her - NOT true!). I'd been checking local shelters and websites daily trying to locate her. It became clear we were going to have to hold out hope that someone would find her, scan her and return her to us. The call from the Brownwood Humane Society came yesterday that our sweet girl had been found. They hadn't located the chip on her first scan, but before adopting her out, they scanned her one more time and voila. We are so fortunate that she was found and had made her way to a caring foster mom too! Apparently, she even got to c...

Cautious Kitty

Found Pets Home — Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:02:12 AM

Joka is a Bengal who popped out the screen when we had our windows open one night. We realized in the morning she wasn't home. We called her name, but she didn't come. We began to worry. That afternoon, we printed the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters and walked all over our neighborhood, talking to families out in the street and spreading the word as far as we could. We knew that she was a cautious kitty with high instincts and we feared that the longer she was out, the more likely it would be she would be absorbed in the feral population. After a little more than a day, we received a phone call in the middle of the night, "Have you found your kitty? I think I found one, but it's too dark I can't see the color, but this cat has a yellow tag like yours did in the photo." The caller had seen the flyer and saw the yellow HomeAgain tag on Joka's collar. Joka was hiding in the storm drain and despite the fact that she would 'talk' to me when I called her, she still wouldn't come out of the drain. O...

A Fast Response

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 09, 2010 11:43:19 PM

Buddy got out of our yard while we were out and decided to explore. When we returned in the evening, we found the gate open and Buddy was gone. We searched the neighborhood to no avail. I went on the HomeAgain site and reported Buddy as lost. He did not wonder far away and ended up at someone's house where he sat in the driveway and barked. He would not move, maybe realizing he was lost. The homeowners had been out and arrived back to find Buddy in their driveway. The only way they could entice him into their home was via their dog. Eventually Buddy let their rescuers read the tags on his collar. The next morning we received a phone call from a local veterinary office to say Buddy had been found. It took less than 24 hours to find Buddy and return him home. Being able to use the HomeAgain organization was key to be able to find him.

TEARS!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 09, 2010 11:26:17 PM

Our cat Sammy had escaped the house 6 days ago. We live in military housing and with the help of HomeAgain we were able to get signs put up and the word out about Sammy. A neighbor/stranger down the road called with a "possible sighting" a day after the posters went up. It was the wrong cat and we've had many disappointments through the 6 days until I got home tonight and got a call from that neighbor who had finally found him! My husband is in the navy and on the ship right now but i know when he calls and I tell him his cat is back that he will have a tear or two in his eye. Thank you HomeAgain you've made things easier for us military families!!!

The Return of Our Beloved Minnie

Found Pets Home — Saturday, October 09, 2010 3:19:06 AM

A Little Far From Home

Found Pets Home — Friday, October 08, 2010 3:04:36 PM

She went missing at 5 pm on Tuesday, October 5th. We looked everywhere for her until we couldn’t walk any more. I stayed up all night making the Lost Pet Poster through HomeAgain. In the morning I started putting up the posters all over the place. I had to go to work so my Fiancé kept putting then up all around our home. Around 4 pm I got a call on my cell phone. Nohla had walked 4 roads down to a house late Tuesday night. They said they posted something on Craig’s List, but I was so out of it I did not even think about going on there to look. The next day, they saw one of our signs and called right away. My heart was full again. Even if she was only gone for 1 day it was still hard. She was more than excited to see my fiancé and he took her straight over to my job so I could see that she was actually OK. The wonderful people that found her said there second step was going to a vet's office to check if she had a microchip. I guess they found one Lost Pet Posters first. I'm so glad she is home and safe...

Sandy Home After 1 Year and 3 Months

Found Pets Home — Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:23:40 PM

When Sandy first got out of our gate on July 1, 2009 we thought we would never see her again. I posted Lost Pet Posters and traveled to shelters all around the area, for over a year. I just couldn't find her. Then, as I was coming in from shopping, I noticed a message on my machine. I called and was told that Sandy had been found. I was overjoyed. I had been praying for her return since she left. She is home safe now and seems healthy. A man had seen her walking around the area where he lived. He said he noticed she looked tired and took her in. When he realized she was in season, he took her to his mountain cabin with his wife so that no males could get to her. After a week, he noticed she had ticks and brought her back to highland to a vet, which happened to be my vet, and when they scanned her they knew she had been listed missing. I was notified and he returned her home. She seemed a little confused, but recognized everyone right away. We took her outside to see our other dog who w...

Doodle is Home Again!!!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 06, 2010 9:01:48 PM

Doodle is a very fluffy and friendly one-year old rescue cat. Doodle loves the outdoors, but is good about staying in his yard or the yards of nearby neighbors. He never goes more than a few hours without coming inside for a visit and a snack. When it got dark and he hadn't been seen all day, we were very concerned. When he wasn't home by the next morning, I was frantic, and I put up the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters all around the block. Around 8:30 tonight I heard a soft meow and flew to the door--but no Doodle. I left the door standing wide open, and a few minutes later he strolled in, unharmed. I really think he had been kept in someone's house, and when they saw the HomeAgain posters, they realized he belonged to someone and released him. (He had lost his collar and tag, again.) I had been SO worried, but it was a comfort to have ready-made posters to print, and to know that he was chipped and could be identified at a vet or shelter. I'm so glad we had HomeAgain, and that our precious Dood...

Missy found freedom

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:48:37 PM

On Sept 28th our front gate was blown open by high winds and Missy had found freedom for the first time. The next door neighbor saw Missy walking around, but did not know that she belonged to us. They called the number on her HomeAgain Tag. HomeAgain called us and she was back returned to our home, happy as can be and probably hoping that the wind would blow open the gate again, so she can take another walk!

Mom Left The Gate Open

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:24:23 PM

I actually have 2 Cavaliers, they were both lost, but now they are both home. Thank God for their chips and tags. I had let the girls out to go potty and went in to get on the computer. Usually Tiffany won't stay out for more than 5 minutes. Chloe is my outdoor girl. Tiffany wasn't barking to come in, so I left her alone and wanted her to stay out with Chloe. If I went to the door Tiffy would want to come in, so I stayed in. I thought about them about 10 minutes later and Tiffy still hadn't barked, I was so proud of her! Well then my phone rang. It was my sister "Vickie Where are you? A man down the street has Chloe!!!" she said. I said "WHAT NO. They are out back". She said, "No HomeAgain called and said he has her and he is bringing her home." My heart sank... I ran as fast as I could (I am disabled) out to the door. I had left the gate open because I was cleaning out pine needles earlier in the day. I thought OH MY GOD that means Tiffy is gone too. My neighbors helped me look for Tiffy and to...

My Chelsea is Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:46:05 PM

Chelsea went out the gate because someone forgot to close it tight, she was missing for 3 weeks until one wonderful morning when I received a call from HomeAgain telling me that she had been found. I was very happy, I thought that she would never be found. But thanks to HomeAgain she is safely home again .

Chico's Back

Found Pets Home — Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:16:53 AM

I opened my apartment door slightly and he was gone. Chico was out and running. We looked for about 2 hours and could not find him. With a sigh and a look back we left to go to work and school. We got a call at about 1am from HomeAgain. A lady had found Chico. We are together again. Thank you Tiffany for finding Chico and thank you HomeAgain.

Dancer Was Found

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:57:01 PM

Thanks to Dancer’s microchip she is back home with her family that loves her so much. I was on vacation when Dancer got away. I had left her with the pet sitter, but she managed to get away and had been missing since Aug 15th. I didn’t hear until 4 days later, as I was in an area that didn’t have phone service. So I got a late start looking for her. When we returned home I contacted HomeAgain to let them know she was missing and I was able to make a personalized Lost Pet Poster from their website, which was really nice. I had been looking every day, checking shelters and putting up posters. Doing everything I could think of- but no sign of her. I was really sad, and it had been a month, but we kept hoping. I knew she was microchipped so I had a feeling I would find her, I just didn’t know how or when. I was missing her like crazy. After a month and 3 weeks I got the call from the animal shelter they had a microchipped dog that matched my name. I couldn’t get to the animal shelter fast enough. When...

Found Mugsy

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:15:29 AM

Found Mugsy wandering near my office. He had the HomeAgain tag on and I called the number. They put me in touch with his owner and they were reunited within 15 minutes. He was very cute and cooperative, came right on in my office to wait for his owner. I was amazed at how this worked so quickly. I recently had my new dog microchipped and I am so glad.

Coty's Happy Reunion

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:56:39 AM

We were in the process of moving and thought we would introduce Coty, our terrier/sheltie mix to his new home in the country, which was 60 miles away. When we were about a mile from our destination, I glanced back to check on him. He had been riding in a pet carrier in the back of the truck, but somehow, he managed to get out of the carrier and was standing looking in the truck window at me, wagging his tail and grinning. "Bob," I shouted to my husband, "stop the truck! Coty is loose." Before I finished speaking, I watched in horror as Coty turned to the side of the truck and jumped out of the speeding vehicle. I saw his body tumble down the side of the ditch as we rounded a curve. When we were able to stop, we backed up, but there was no sign of Coty. For an hour, we searched the woods by the road, calling his name. Bob said he might be hurt and hiding under some undergrowth in the woods. Finally, we decided to go on to the house which was only up the road and pick up Jill, our Jack Russell Te...

Finding Juno

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:59:30 PM

We were at the lake for the Labor Day Holiday. The Lake community was holding a "walk the lake" on Saturday morning. We had been outside the house watching the walkers and supplying them with water. Our Juno had been with us but was mostly interested in the lake and dock jumping. While we were headed inside to get a drink, Juno decided to take off with a group of walkers. When we got back outside she was nowhere to be found. We drove up and down the streets calling her name, but with no luck. Needless to say we were pretty distraught. Finally I stopped at a house where there were lots of kids and asked if they had seen a white lab. They nodded yes and had led her into their garage. We found her in about 30 minutes. After I got home my cell phone had a voice message from HomeAgain, letting me know to call them about Juno since someone had called them with her tag number. The HomeAgain rep said that they had her location and had already called my home number as well to let me know. It a...

Altruistic New Yorkers Help Find Eloise

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 27, 2010 4:40:53 PM

Eloise was lost in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A dog walker named Beth saw her with a homeless guy sleeping in a park. She recognized Eloise from the poster that HomeAgain posted I posted at the Tompkins Square Dog Run. She waited for the man to wake up before she asked him if he had recently found her. He was very friendly and excited to help Eloise find her owner. She called HomeAgain (Eloise has a microchip) and gave them her number which was on the poster. Since he didn't have a phone, he let her take Eloise, albeit sadly and reluctantly. In the meantime, HomeAgain called me and gave me her number. I was already only a couple blocks away. So I walked towards her, and she was waiting for me with Eloise in front of Café Luise. I also got to meet the guy who had initially found her, whose name is John. He was very worried about her and told me he fed her a ham, tomato, and bread sandwich. He definitely looked disheveled, but he couldn't have been more concerned about finding me. She has been sl...

She came home!

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 27, 2010 7:57:03 AM

After many hours of searching and worrying, and two long nights, Ashes jumped into our living room window just after seven this morning! Tears of joy! She seems a little traumatized. She is missing a small bit of fur on her back and some of it's matted but mostly she is okay. It took her longer than normal to start purring, but she immediately curled up on my lap and closed her eyes. I fed her and now she's taken to one of her favorite spots to nap. We're soooo happy!! Thank you to a neighbor that jumped in her car and began searching when she got the email from HomeAgain. She gave us hope :) and thank you to HomeAgain for helping us in our search for Ashes. A happy ending!

Short Adventure

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:13:34 AM

Our little adventurer had found a gap in our fence and went exploring. Luckily, she only made it to the end of our block. Our neighbors didn't recognize her, one, because we've only had her about a year now, and two, she was recently groomed very short. They saw her tag, called the number, was given our address, and she was home before we knew she had even gotten out. (about 10 minutes) Immediately after, we received a phone call from HomeAgain, checking on her status. We were happy to tell them she was home safe and sound!

Just in the Nick of Time

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:17:02 AM

When I got back from a weekend away and found my dog missing, I panicked. She is terrified of thunderstorms, and one that had swept through put her into such a panic that she literally scratched her way through the wooden baby gate. To make matters worse, she left her collar hanging on one of the slats. I then remembered that I had her micro-chipped several years ago. I hopped onto HomeAgain.com to update some now outdated contact info and to register her as lost. To my dismay, when I logged on, I found that I had registered my other dog and not her. After a quick call to my vet the next morning, I obtained her microchip ID number and logged back on to register her information. Within 30 minutes after posting her information, I received a call from our local rescue that they had Pooh and had just been notified by HomeAgain that there was a lost dog in the area. Talk about timing! Thank you HomeAgain for providing this service. You saved me hours of worry, canvassing the neighborhood, posting ...

Do Onto Others

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:17:52 AM

I regularly receive HomeAgain PetRescuers emails and check for any lost dogs in my area. I've done this since joining HomeAgain when we adopted our dog two years ago. On this day there were two dogs reported to be lost together, a 70lb white Husky and a 9lb Pomeranian. I read the emails and headed off to work. Before my car reached the end of the street, I noticed a large white dog walking alone in the grassy area of my housing complex. I knew there are very few large dogs that live here and this animal was clearly out of place. I looked around and did not see anyone nearby. I called to the dog, and he had started walking in my direction, but would not come to me. Remembering the HomeAgain email, I turned the car around and returned home to check the email again. The description matched Gutz, a 7-yr old white Husky that had been missing for two days. I grabbed a bag of peanut butter flavored treats that I had purchased for my dog, took my cell phone, and ran outside. I couldn't see Gutz, but I live ri...

Winston is HomeAgain!!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:28:49 AM

Winston is a nosy little cat who had snuck out. It has happened before but he usually returns back home within a few hours. When a few days passed without Winston’s return, we grew very worried. Thanks to HomeAgain’s help, and the Lost Pet Posters they supplied me with (for free!!) I was able to hand them out to neighbors and friends. A neighbor who didn’t know he was missing until she had seen the poster found him in her yard! We are so happy to have him HomeAgain!

Wolfy Came Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:07:56 PM

When my dog got out through the open fence, I was distraught. I called HomeAgain and they immediately sent out Lost Pet emails to vets, shelters, and HomAgain PetRescuers. I was able to print out posters with his information on them, right from the website. Well a few hours later a neighbor brought him home after seeing his flyer. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. HomeAgain is the best money I EVER spent!!!!!!!

HomeAgain is a Life Saver

Found Pets Home — Monday, September 13, 2010 2:57:47 PM

I had Sunny out to go potty about 12 am along with her father, my other chihuahua. When I went to let them back in about 10 minutes later, Jackie came running in, but no Sunny. She was always looking for a place to try to get under the fence. I looked for her around the yard, then got dressed to drive around the neighborhood. I still couldn't find her. I knew she hadn't gone in another house because she was scared of strangers and would have just barked and ran away if approached. About 5 minutes after I returned home, I received a phone call from an emergency vet clinic about 10 miles from my house. They had Sunny. Someone had found her by the side of the road after she had been hit by a car. They must have found her immediately after she was hit because I had just driven by there when I was looking for her. Her back was broken and she was paralyzed. She had emergency surgery and her life was saved even though she is now paralyzed. At the time I had let her out, she wasn't wearing her...

Kowe's Big Adventure

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 11, 2010 12:07:45 AM

While I was out of town, my roommate also left town for her cousin's wedding. Kowe (pronounced Cow-ee) must have slipped out the door right as she was leaving, and then had no one to let her back in our apartment for 4 days. As soon as I reported her lost with HomeAgain, I immediately felt at ease. I had a lost poster in my e-mail inbox within minutes, and I knew every pet rescuer and shelter/vet in the area had the exact same poster. After putting them up, I had calls about sightings, but no luck finding her. Finally, a friend convinced me to go out searching with a fresh set of eyes (hers), and she spotted a vent opening I had not thought about. I called to her and got an instant response. 15 frantic minutes later, the access to the large crawl space under the apartment was open, and Kowe had managed to jump up and get out herself. After a difficult bath, she settled in on my lap, and she and my other cat started to get reacquainted. Kowe, being a strictly indoor cat, was found less than half a mile...

Boxer is Home After 8 Months Missing!

Found Pets Home — Friday, September 10, 2010 3:31:20 PM

Our dog Boxer went missing January 26th, 2010. We put up signs, called local dog pounds and shelters and had no luck finding him. We discussed with the shelters the possibility of him not being alive and they assured us that if they came across a deceased animal they would scan him, which assured us that he was probably alive and well, albeit with another family. But there's a twist. He wasn't picked up until February 26th, 2010. He was miles from home and his ID tag had fallen off. He was near death and wound up HW positive (heartbreaker)....but he was nursed back to health. After a month or so, he was placed up for adoption. Keep in mind, that we had no knowledge of this. After two weeks, the shelters stopped their posting of our missing dog and we assumed the worst. We didn't know about PetFinder, either, where he was actually listed as a found pet. A family 30 miles away adopted him. They of course loved him (he is so sweet) but he eventually chewed through their fence and got out. And that...

Guests That Wouldn't Leave

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:39:19 PM

Both Kujo and his "baby sister", Gnjilani, broke loose Friday, Labor Day weekend, from my back yard after being tempted by a bird (found the remaining feathers to build this part of the story). I returned home to find them missing that night, and was distraught. Both are rescue dogs that have been with me since they were puppies. I notified HomeAgain, posted them missing to various websites, listed on Craigslist, put up fliers throughout my neighborhood, and at a gas station and post office. I also drove many miles trying to find them. I checked all the shelters I could find- multiple times. Tuesday after Labor Day, I got a phone call from my regular vet's office. They told me that they had seen my fliers, and wanted to make sure that my dogs were really missing before putting them up. I told them yes. I then asked where they saw the flier, as I had not put one up there. They told me they found it on their printer when they came into the office that day. That told me that HomeAgain's sys...

Losing a Pet Brings Out the Crazy in You

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:58:02 AM

Shiloh is as curious as nature intended him to be. So to satisfy his adventurous side we let him explore our backyard. What we didn't know, is that the wind took off part of our wooden fence the day before. Around dinner time I realized how odd it was that Shiloh had not howled at me for his wet dinner, so I searched the house in every secret hiding place, but to no avail. In a panic, I ran outside and realized what had happened - he had set off to explore the wider world. My first instinct was to jump in my car and search for him, stopping every neighbor, kid and dog walker I saw and showing them his picture. When this didn't work, I was comforted when I remembered he had a HomeAgain microchip and would be returned to me. Not only that, HomeAgain has an awesome lost pet alert system that I immediately posted Shiloh's information on. I got a call the next day from a neighbor in a neighboring subdivision that she thought she had seen Shiloh the night before. I searched for about an hour every cou...

Found Bubba

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:51:54 PM

I received a voicemail from HomeAgain saying that someone had found my lost pet, Bubba, and that I needed to call them back so that they could connect me to the person that had him. Finally they called the lady back that had him and connected me to her. He was only a few houses away but they had seen him running and didn’t want him to get ran over or hurt. I went to her house to pick him up and he saw me through the gate and went berserk. We got him back home now and he is still his goofy self.

70 Miles and Running

Found Pets Home — Saturday, September 04, 2010 10:40:48 AM

Nearly 3 months ago my Chiweenie Bishop decided to dart out of the house as I was on my way to work one night. I decided not to chase him this time since he's always usually around the corner and my neighbors know who Bishop belongs to. 12 hours later that’s when I started to worry, Bishop didn't have his collar on due to getting his bath the previous that evening. After I initially reported my lost pet with HomeAgain, I received the first call from a neighbor who saw one of my HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters that we posted. She said she saw Bishop, but nothing came of it. Our 2nd call was from a shelter over 70 miles away. I was told Bishop was scanned when he was brought in as a stray but his microchip didn't register. So he was put on the ready to adopt list. On the day of the public adoption the keen insight of the shelter staff noticed that Bishop was neutered and slightly trained and decided to scan him a second time before letting him be adopted. That’s when his microchip I.D. registered back ...

Oh Oscar!!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:38:27 PM

During a lonely time in my life I adopted a black and tan tabby named Oscar. He was about 6 months old and became a fast friend. He sat on the couch like a human, back against the pillows, fat tummy exposed, legs hanging to the side! After several months I moved and Oscar became a spoiled house cat. One dark night as I carried in groceries, Oscar ran out into the black night. I called, left out food, searched and contacted the Humane Society - after 2 months I gave up and adopted another tabby. Oscar never did turn up and months turned into years. I remarried and moved to another city. Then the phone rings - 4 and 1/2 years after Oscar disappeared into the night. It was HomeAgain calling - Oscar had been cared for the past 18 months by a cat-loving lady named Phyllis. She took Oscar to the vet for vaccinations and they scanned for the chip, which led to HomeAgain calling me. Phyllis loves Oscar and since I have two other cats and two dogs and a new home, Phyllis is keeping Oscar as one of her much...

HomeAgain Really Works

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:09:49 PM

While I was talking to my next door neighbor, Mimi our 4 year old female Shelty, wandered off our neighborhood area. Let me first say that everyone in the neighborhood knows Mimi. A new neighbor about 6 houses away, who also has a small dog, found Mimi when she went inside their house. Mimi went through the open front door, and proceeded to eat their dog’s food. Fortunately for us they checked Mimi’s collar and called the number on her yellow HomeAgain tag. Mimi and I were "reunited" within a few minutes of her disappearance. Thankfully Mimi always knew where she was. But it's good to know that the HomeAgain system really works.

Update Your Phones If You Move!!!

Found Pets Home — Friday, August 27, 2010 7:19:07 PM

In the summer of 2009, we moved to a different home to make room for my mother to live with us. It had a lovely fenced in yard, and our collie, Stella, LOVED it! One night, my husband received a phone call from HomeAgain, telling us that they found our dog. We thought she was just outside on the patio, but apparently she took about a 5 block stroll towards a very busy intersection, and made a new friend there!!! The operator on the phone, told my husband that they tried the phone number we had listed, but (of course) it was disconnected....I hadn't even thought of changing it! They called the emergency number listed, my good friend, Laura, and she gave them my cell number. What a wonderful phone call to receive!!! The "Rescuing Angel" saw Stella on her way home from delivering some rescued dogs to a no-kill shelter!! She jumped out of her car, and Stella came right up to her....wanting a head scratch, thank goodness. I don't even know her name, but this angel started walking Stella on a leash, ...

Anna and Cowboy Go Out For a Visit

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:54:18 PM

My dogs, Anna and Cowboy, were digging to chase bunnies. We have worked incredibly hard to keep them from digging out of our yard, but they just find new and creative ways to circumvent us. When they got out we were panicked because we have wild animals around our very rural area. We looked until midnight calling and calling, but nothing. We prayed that a neighbor found them and took them in. In the morning HomeAgain called and told us a neighbor had sighted them, and took them in, but she had a cat. They have never seen a cat, and I think they thought it was a bunny. They jumped at the chance to chase it in her house. She opened the door to let the cat out and instead the dogs escaped. She got our number from HomeAgain and called us and said the dogs were on our street headed to our house. My husband jumped in the car and began to whistle going down the street. I ran out of the house and called them to come. In less than 2 minutes they appeared in the driveway very tired, weary, thirsty...

Found My Dog "In Custody"

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:02:39 PM

My Boston Terrier, Baby, is just that...she is my baby. I take her with me almost everywhere I go, but when I had to leave her at home, she would climb our 5 foot chain link fence, like a cat, and attempt to find someone else to keep her company. This particular day, I had been gone for about an hour and a half, and came home to find the pet door pushed open and Baby nowhere to be found. I panicked. First thing I did was drive around the neighborhood looking for her. After half an hour of not finding her, I was in a panic. When I went home to call for help, I found a message on my answering machine from HomeAgain. Someone had found my Baby, and they left me the number. I called the number and was given a corner in Madras to meet him with my dog. He told me there was no address where he was. I was confused, but happy that I was going after her to bring her home. When I got there, I found a van with a Deputy and a dozen men with "inmate" stamped on their backs, all sitting on the ground...

So Glad For The Microchip!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:51:18 PM

Red had been missing for more than three months, in fact my family had mostly given up hope that he would be found. Meanwhile, about 4 miles away from our home a family had started feeding this sweet stray cat. After taking care of him for about two weeks they considered adopting him, but first took him to the local shelter to see if he had a microchip, and he did! That day I was able to pick up my sweet cat, a little skinny but otherwise in good shape! So glad I spent the money on the HomeAgain microchip!

Zumer Found After 3 and A Half Years!

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 23, 2010 10:56:23 AM

Zumer came to us in a group of week-old foster kittens May 2006. He was raised with his brother (Grover), two sisters (Gummy and Marble) and an unrelated kitty (Bug). We soon fell in love and all five kitties became permanent family members. Zumer and his brother, Grover, disappeared March 2007. My husband and I were out of town - when we returned April 2007 (April fool’s Day) we couldn’t find Zumer or Grover anywhere. They usually answered and came running when they were called. Zumer especially would run at top speed to greet us when we returned from past trips. The pet sitter said she couldn’t tell the cats apart (we had 7) and she didn’t enforce our curfew and didn’t even realize that two cats were missing. So we had no clue if the boys were missing only 1 day or for the entire 2 and a half weeks we were gone. Within hours of our return, I reported the boys lost through HomeAgain, posted their info on the websites PetFinder and TabbyTracker, blanketed the neighborhood with posters, spoke with ne...

Lost and found

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 23, 2010 8:04:29 AM

Vandal got out late Saturday night, we did not know until morning. We started putting out fliers and signs, when HomeAgain called with a party on the line that found Vandal and took him to Pet Mart were he was scanned and his chip verified to me. They meet and returned Vandal. I can not state how relieved I was and how good and fast the service worked. I would highly recommend this service to any pet owner.

The adventures of Columbus

Found Pets Home — Monday, August 23, 2010 7:19:40 AM

Oliver's main goal in his little life has been to get out. Well, maybe to eat, to snuggle lately...and then to get outside! Our house backs up to 10 acres of woods, and we see coyotes and fox all the time. For this reason we decided to make him an indoor cat. Well, he has always tried to get outside and finally got his wish 2 days ago. We had friends over, someone left the garage door open, and he was out for hours before we started our search. Normallly when he "escapes" we either see him, or we are right on his heels, and with a little coaxing and food, he pauses long enough to scoop him up. Well this time he was no where to be found once we began calling him and looking around. We had thunderstorms all weekend and no sign of Oliver. We printed out the LostPet poster, which was easy even for a technically challenged person like me. Home Again's suggestions, info, and poster was invaluable in keeping our family productive and focused in our search for Oliver. After reading about indoor cats,...

4th of July Clam Bake, Maine

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 22, 2010 4:02:12 PM

This is a story you may have already heard. Our vacation home in Maine is a very popular place for my large family to gather during the beautiful summer months. On the 4th of July weekend the comings and goings of kids on bikes walks to the beach, and gates opening and closing was too much to keep track of. While on the beach enjoying a loud fireworks display,one of my dogs escaped the fenced in patio and ran, frightened, to find our group. We returned to the house and all 5 other dogs were in the house except for little Chester, a 7 year old male Shih tzu. An erie calm came over me. I really did not know what to do,except run in the dark and look for him, calling his name. Shortly after midnight my nephew in NJ called and was contacted by HomeAgain. My baby was safe with a woman some distance away from our home. I never added our home in Maine to the database.Keep your records up to date. I bet you will never see a woman cry like I did with joy that Chester was unharmed. Dogs do not like fireworks! Go...

Lost During a Move, Cat Found...

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:42:58 PM

This last December my family was moving from Fort Leavenworth, KS to Fort Bragg, NC. After the first night in a hotel just outside of Saint Louis, my cat escaped out of our hotel room and through all of our searching, we could not find her. The hotel was located just off of I 70. It was bitter cold during that time and for the next couple of months as well. It was a heartbreaking rest of the trip for all of us. I have been posting her picture on Craigslist ever since and searched the postings as well. I also was diligent about looking on Petharbor.com, I made a few phone calls but nothing turned up. Five months later, I received a phone call from a Veterinarian’s office, they found Trixie or rather someone from a Chiropractic office turned her in. The people that turned her in were located only a couple of blocks from the hotel. Thanks to her Microchip, after five long months, our cat came home. In addition to this blessing, HomeAgain paid for her flight home.

Houdini in Silverdale, WA

Found Pets Home — Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:57:12 PM

Ania is a menace but in such a way that our family has come to love her for being so bold. She is an escape artist as every husky is known to be. This Friday she slipped away off of her lead on the deck and took off for an adventure but didn't return home this time. Ania has escaped plenty of times before from us. With us chasing her at her heels, calling her with leash in hand and or dashing to the car so we don't have to run barefoot to run the husky capture mission again. HomeAgain helped us find our "Houdini" this time. Their humane society blast helped us receive a call from our local humane society with information from a local resident that had kept our furry friend in safety. She is home now and our furry family crew is back together. Thank you "HomeAgain" !!

Teka Came Home!

Found Pets Home — Friday, August 20, 2010 2:17:06 AM

I work in Africa and had to make the trip 2 days after Teka disappeared. After 4 days of believing she probably died in the attic, I was amazed to hear that Teka came home on her own after 4 days of apparent roaming. While she finally came home, before that I was happy to know that Home Again was out there waiting for that one call and that the animal shelters/vets were being kept up to date on the situation. The people on the phone told me to keep up hope. I am glad that someone cared enough to say those things. Although I wasn't too good of a hope keeper I did everything they told me to just in case!!!

Taylor the Escape Artist

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:53:37 PM

Taylor has always been an escape artist. A yard worker left the gate unlocked, and while she didn't notice until morning, she still pushed through. I did not notice, although I was surprised that she hadn't seen me off. I left, even a little grateful that she did not come to give me the stricken look she has when I leave. When I got back, I entered the house to find my machine blinking with contacts, one of these from HomeAgain. Taylor was safe and about a block from home. A woman had seen her down by the gate, which is near a very busy street. She picked her up and took her to a nearby vet to have her scanned. I cannot tell you how happy I am that your service exists. This dog is a big part of my life, and you saved me a lot of heartache.

Wandering Little Guy

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:25:42 PM

I found a little Boston Terrier roaming my street one day. He was heading for a major road, so I intercepted him and got him turned around. I finally caught him with a rescue lead halfway down my street. I was out of breath so I went up to a neighbor's house and asked them to look at his collar where we found the HomeAgain number. While I was on the phone with them, they contacted a very frantic owner, I loaded him in my truck and drove him a few streets away to his mom. If only everyone would get their pets micro-chipped, and everyone was informed enough to have a vet or rescue check for one in the event of a "found" pet, the world be be a more wonderful place!

My Tabby Nenette found after 7 YEARS !

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:35:43 AM

Nenette was found as a very small kitten in the woman's locker room at the city college my daughter attended, with 3 other kitties who were quickly adopted. My daughter brought her home, and in the next 4 months she became pregnant. She gave birth at home and took very good care of her babies. All of our cats got chips. A year later, one of them, to whom she was very attached died. After this event Nenette got into a feud with her remaining daughter and left... We looked for her in all the pounds of the San Francisco Bay Area, in our neighborhood - nothing. This winter, I received a phone call from Berkeley's pound, they had found Nenette in a neighbor backyard. Our address had changed multiple times and I did forgot to update my file at HomeAgain. But they had my cell phone number! It was such a joy to have Nenette again in the family. She had a good coat but was very "petite". She recognized us right away and sleeps on my bed every night! Now the staff at the pound told me that they never had ...

Sampson Is Found

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:05:43 PM

My dog Sampson got out of the yard on August 13, 2010, I immediately contacted HomeAgain and they made a Lost Pet Poster for me. I put the posted out everywhere. I was beginning to lose hope when I received a phone call from HomeAgain saying that they had a person on the line that had see my dog, and within a matter of a couple hours my son found him and he was brought home. Thank you HomeAgain for everything.

Prayers Answered

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:30:30 PM

I was visiting my brother at his house, with our Miniature Pinscher, Buck. That evening we decided to go out to dinner with our whole family so we placed our dog buck in my brother’s outdoor kennel. Now as you may know Min Pins are known to jump HIGH. Our Buck is no different. We do not know how he got out; however, when we got home he was gone. We walked around my brother’s neighborhood for hours to no avail. The next day we were to go to Yellowstone National Park for the day. We were devastated. The thought of leaving our precious dog all alone for even a night was hard. All of us- my Fiancé, my two girls ( Alissa 13 Samantha, 12) cried. WE knew that buck was chipped but we had not yet registered him with our new information. So we quickly jumped on the phone at 11 o'clock that evening and spoke to a wonderful person at HomeAgain who got our new information and sent out an alert immediately. We went to Yellowstone with a prayer in our hearts that someone would find him and do the right thi...

4 Months Later - Molly Lou Returns

Found Pets Home — Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:51:47 AM

My husband Bill, our son Wesley, who is 17 and special needs, and myself went to Disney World over spring break. We left our Pug, Molly Lou, with our beloved friends, Marcy and Geoff. They were playing with Molly Lou when the UPS guy dropped off a box. Molly Lou ran out the door and began an adventure of a lifetime. Marcy and Geoff did everything they could to find her-- luckily we gave them the HomeAgain magnet to use if anything would happen. After trying to catch her for 1 hour -- they called HomeAgain to report her lost on April 2. We were not to get back until April 9. They made signs, walked the neighborhood, made phone calls, and visited the shelter often. They whole neighborhood was involved in finding Molly Lou. They received some notifications about Molly but no one could catch her. I called Marcy and Geoff on April 8 to see how Molly was doing. Geoff told me what happened and Bill and I were a mess -- we did not tell Wesley as it may have upset him too much!! It was the longest 24 ...

Gate Left Open

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:36:41 PM

I retired for bed at 10:00PM; unknowing an electric company worker left the side gate open while reading the meter of my home, and thus Coco went sniffing and wondering that evening. I received a call at 11:26AM the next morning from HomeAgain about Coco’s disappearance. I returned the call at 12:16PM, was teleconferenced with the loving family that found Coco, and Coco was home by 1:30PM. I’ve never had to use HomeAgain services in the past, but I’m sure glad I registered Coco five years prior to this incident. Thank You HomeAgain! Your system really does work; and Coco thanks you too.

Catfish Wednesday, What a Day

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:53:18 PM

Things have been good with our new dog we just got, Lucy. The only one who had a problem with the new dog, was my other dog Holly. She had been with me for only a couple days, and thing were going too well. Today was Wednesday, and my friend Maria and I had been planning to go to a catfish buffet. After an hour of nothing but pure catfish, we came back to my home only to find Holly. We called out for Lucy everywhere, but nothing. I was so worried, but surprisingly Holly was really playful and I knew that Lucy must have gotten out. I went on HomeAgain and the operator helped me set up a Lost Pet alert that went out to the local shelters and even called the shelter that Lucy came from. Well I will tell you, Lucy went on an adventure. She left my house and went out of the neighborhood I lived in. She went under the large fence walked around oceanside and jumped in a man’s truck!!! Well the animal shelter that Lucy came from got a call from the man. They went and picked her up and dropped off at home....

Caring Dog Owner Saves the Day

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:50:32 PM

My wife let my two dogs, Dreyfus and Sheenah, out for a morning bathroom run in my fenced yard. When she returned to let them in, Dreyfus could not be found. Somehow the gate was left open and Dreyfus had left the yard. My wife contacted me at work and I rushed home to search for Dreyfus. Remembering that Dreyfus had a HomeAgain chip installed in 2008, I went to my paperwork. I retrieved the HomeAgain number and contacted them. They took my information and had me register online. There I uploaded a picture and inputted information on Dreyfus. This information was then sent out to all HomeAgain PetRescuers in the area. I got in my car and drove around for four hours, searching the neighborhood and city, talking to everyone, but with no luck. I returned home to check the local shelter site and HomeAgain.com. I then noticed I had added an extra letter to my dog’s microchip ID! I contacted home again so this could be fixed, the young lady gladly assisted me in this process. Not 40 minutes later I rece...

Diablo returns

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:06:34 AM

I used the lost poster format that HomeAgain has and posted it all over the neighborhood. This really helped because it provided a picture of him. At first no one saw Diablo for a week. When I would check with the neighbors one advised me they saw him in his garage but he ran out when he approached him. With the help of the poster and picture it was easy for my neighbor to confirm it was Diablo and that he was still in the immediate area. I left my garage door open with food and water for two days and on Monday August 9, 2010 I found him in the garage. He came right to me. I was so happy to see him. He looked good just a little dirty. Ever since I've had Diablo he has been living up to his name. lol.

My Maltese Found A State Away

Found Pets Home — Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:43:55 PM

I had a miracle happen yesterday. My Maltese disappeared in Rhode Island on July 19, 2010. I started giving up hope when I got a call from Home Again saying there was a match on my Maltese. My dog traveled over 45 miles to Danielson, CT. The woman who found him on the road was smart enough to take him to her vet to have him checked for a chip... and the rest is history. She only had him for 5 days so we still don't know where he was prior to that. If he wasn't microchipped I never would have found him. If you have a pet, it's worth the money to get them chipped. Thank you Home Again you made my day yesterday.

24 Hour Heartbreak and Joy

Found Pets Home — Friday, August 06, 2010 11:28:35 PM

Yesterday morning, August 5, 2010 our 14 year old Miniature Schnauzer, Maggie passed away from kidney failure. A mere 12 hours later, Gabbi, our 1 year old Miniature Schnauzer just disappeared from out of the fenced backyard while I was cleaning out the bird bath. I called and called her name, I whistled for her, I even went in and got her favorite squeaky toy; all to no avail. It was dark outside by the time my husband arrived home, so he got a flashlight and searched our yard and the neighborhood for her. When he came back in he contacted HomeAgain. They had him download a picture of Gabbi in order to assist them in getting the notice of Lost Pet Poster out to shelters, vets, dog finder groups, etc. and to enable us to print the Lost Pet posters to hang up locally. He hung those up between midnight and 1 am before he headed off to bed. Losing one doggie child is heartbreak enough, but the fear of losing a second- I would not wish on my worst enemy. Needless to say, after the last 24 hours I was ...

Thunder Storm Refugee

Found Pets Home — Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:22:43 PM

We found a very wet and scared, small black dog at our door when we came home during an awful summer storm. He would not leave and wanted inside. We put him on our screened porch and began calling the numbers on his tags - owner and vet. We got the answering machine at the home, as well as the vet’s office and cell phone. I had noticed the HomeAgain tag so I got the microchip number. Within 5 - 10 minutes of calling HomeAgain, I was on a 2-way call with Shadow's mom in Virginia, where she was on vacation. I gave her my number and was going to call her pet sitter to let her know where Shadow was. Isabella from HomeAgain was great, and made sure that everything got passed back between us. About 30 minutes later, the pet sitter called and came to get Shadow. I microchipped my own dog, Johann Sebastian Bark, as a puppy and am very grateful that I did so. I have never used your service until this evening but you made a believer out of me and my husband. I called later to update my own info. ...

Queen Returns Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:41:19 PM

Queen was robbed from my yard at my house. Three months later, on July 31, 2010 the sheltter called and said she was found. Thank you microchip! Now my family is happy.

Vacation in Maine

Found Pets Home — Sunday, August 01, 2010 3:00:52 PM

Last day of vacation, and our two Labs decided to go exploring. The worst possible thoughts were running through my mind, realizing that we were supposed to leave the Rockwood area of Moosehead Lake early the next morning. Panic and helplessness are two great mental demons, no matter what the situation. Not 60 minutes after our search, my cell phone rang. Alex, whoever you are, is an angel. Our girls were found by a large family with lots of kids and they called HomeAgain right away. We are thinking of renaming our wandering females; "Lewis and Clark"! Thank you Home Again. We are forever in your debt.

Never too late to be found

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 30, 2010 3:44:42 PM

After almost 1 1/2 years and giving up hope we got a call from our local shelter... Hallo had been found. This baby belonged to my brother who is disabled and an addict. This dog had helped him stay clean and sober. My brother went into a downturn and suffered greatly when he disappeared. When we went to get Hallo he ran to my brother, and was so thrilled to see him. Now they are inseparable. Even though he had been taken care of there is no relief like having him back. Thanks HomeAgain.

Escape Artist For a Night

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 30, 2010 11:39:28 AM

We went to a friend’s place to pick up a couple park-style benches she was replacing. My husband and a friend got home to unload them at our house and opened the gate to put them in the back yard area. Tia, being the smallest of our 3 dogs, had the stealth to slip out the gate. My husband saw one dog in the living room window and the other at his feet and thought Tia was in the house. Shortly he realized his error, and we started searching. One friend driving, one on foot, and later a 4 car search turned up nothing. I immediately went online after 2 hours of searching, and contacted HomeAgain to alert them and update our contact numbers. They notified me the next day, in the morning, this was done. Of course we notified our vet, clinic and put up the Lost Pet poster. And yes, folks do look at these, I got a good response. She got lost on Tuesday evening, and our savior took the time to get the number off her collar and call HomeAgain. We were called Thursday, shortly after noon, that our little ...

Fellow Cat Lover Found My Kitty

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:22:03 PM

Manfred had been lost for 2 weeks and I had almost given up. I am in the military and will be transferring soon. It broke my heart that I might not be able to reunite with our kitty. HomeAgain called, and a lady about a half a mile from us had found my cat. Her husband told her to not worry about it when she saw him- that he would go home. Thank goodness she didn't listen. She called the HomeAgain number on his collar, and the rest is history. So glad my baby was microchipped!

Wonderful Strangers

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:55:17 AM

So if you saw a strange, very large dog near your home, would you lock your doors, or try to say hello and give them treats? Thankfully, the person who found my dog, a Great Dane, was not faint of heart! Although Freya never came close enough for a pat, they could see my name on her ID, and looked up my number (they couldn't read that off the tags because it was in smaller print). HomeAgain was awesome in dealing with all my information, and getting it right out to the people that needed to know. They even designed a poster for us to put up. Thank you for wonderful companies and good Samaritans!

She's Home!!!!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, July 25, 2010 2:15:09 PM

Wow! Someone found my little girl, and HomeAgain got me in touch with them quickly!!!! I feel much more confident in my pet's security now that I've seen this system in action. After this experience, I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with a pet that they love. Get them chipped and in the HomeAgain pet recovery system. Thank you to HomeAgain sooooo much for the service you provide!!!

Rocco Comes Home!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:12:57 PM

Our dog Rocco left on Tuesday, after our Saint Bernard opened the gate for the 2 of them. The Saint Bernard waited for us to return after being gone for 4 hours, but Rocco had decided to stroll off. We posted signs everywhere in the neighborhood, not knowing that he was found about 10 miles away! Thank you HomeAgain because without you, we would have never found our Rocco.

Bolted When the Fireworks Began

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:18:37 AM

This past Fourth of July my dog Jake, a good friend, and I were visiting friends on Balboa Island in Newport Beach. Parties were going strong all over the neighborhood and when the fireworks began around 9 pm, my one year old Jake bolted out the side door some reveler had left ajar. A full island press was on, with partiers forsaking their drinks and fun to help locate my beloved runaway. Someone spotted him in the water, but was unable to grab him before he fled down another island alley. Two frantic hours later the call came through from the Newport Animal Shelter that they had rescued Jake, and that he was safe and sound. By then it was midnight, and the pound officially closed, but they were kind enough to allow me to see him before he had to spend the next day locked up safely in the facility. When the pound opened on the 6th, we were there to reclaim our runaway. What a blessed relief!

Keep Persevering

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 23, 2010 1:38:34 PM

I lost my cat Bingo on a Sunday. After exploring all my options, involving HomeAgain's service, I walked my neighborhood, attaching Lost Pet posters to posts within a 5 mile area and posting and handing out the posters door to door in my direct vicinity. I was beginning to lose hope of ever finding my precious cat...but I kept putting flyers in areas I missed and continued to persevere. I was ecstatic when I received a call six days later that someone who had received my Lost Pet poster had found my cat. Within that same hour, I had received two more calls from neighbors who had seen my posted flyer and had information about my cat. It’s important to not give up, and to exhaust all options. I had been on the phone with HomeAgain twice, ordered their premium service, visited shelters and posted signs. And thank goodness my work paid off. But most importantly it left me with such a good feeling that my nearby neighbors (who I had never met) went out of their way and did such a good deed by trying to hel...

My Boy Is Home...

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:04:40 PM

On Sunday evening my Golden Retriever, Molly, went into acute respiratory arrest and had to be euthanized. Unfortunately, the next afternoon I had to leave on a business trip. That evening Max, our Shepherd/Boxer mix, bolted through the door when my husband opened it. After searching the neighborhood for an hour he called me to break the news that we had potentially lost two of our babies within 24 hours. I logged onto the HomeAgain website to report Max missing and downloaded the Lost Pet poster. I was able to e-mail the .pdf file to my husband who quickly printed copies and posted them at the entrance to our subdivision. Max's rescuer saw the poster the next morning on her way to work and called to say he was safe and sound, in her care until we were able to recover him. I am so grateful that I was able to be a part of the search effort from 900 miles away and that little search time was lost with the personalized Lost Pet poster HomAgain provided for us. I urge everyone to make sure th...

A Great Phone Call

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 19, 2010 1:13:20 PM

On July 11 my husband, like always, took Kia out to potty before he went to work. He attached the leash, opened the door, and out went Kia. The leash was not on right and off Kia ran. We could not catch her. She caught wind of a deer and through the woods she went, not to be seen for 39 hours. Thanks to HomeAgain they put out a Lost Pet Alert in my area, and before I knew it, I got the "great " phone call. Thank you so much everybody and a special thanks to Carol, who found Kia.

Another Dog Returned HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 19, 2010 1:10:25 PM

It was a cold snowy morning - my wife and I were headed to church. We opened the garage and there was this little dog. It was matted and covered with ice and snow. We kept the dog in garage overnight and the next morning I took the dog to a groomer. I had the dog washed and cut. When I picked up the dog a couple of hours later it didn't even look like same dog. Turned out it was a Schnauzer. I took him a vet near our home and asked that they scan it for the chip. Behold, it did – the vet contacted the owner and the dog was returned that afternoon. The owner reimbursed me for the dog’s wash and cut. The dog was happy to be HomeAgain.

Finding My Cat: Jefferson Tuxedo Tyson

Found Pets Home — Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:36:43 AM

I opened my windows for fresh air. My cat, Jefferson, usually sits on the window seal and looks out. He must have seen another animal because he pushed on the screen and fell out the window about 8:30 P.M. When I closed the window I noticed the screen on the ground, and Jefferson was missing. I immediately, went around the house calling him, but to no answer. I called HomeAgain and received kind and sympathetic service. The HomeAgain representative suggested that I drive around the neighborhood even though it was dark. As I checked the window again to make sure it was locked, I heard a meow and saw Jefferson. When I ran out to get him he crawled under the deck. I kept talking to him and he finally came out to where I could grab his arm. I immediately put his collar on him, which he will wear permanently, even in the house. I will only open the window an inch, even if the window has screens. Big Lesson Learned. Thanks to HomeAgain and the HomeAgain representative’s helpful advice.

Pablo's Reunion

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 16, 2010 9:00:25 AM

Pablo was lost on a Sunday afternoon. Immediately, my fiancée took to searching and called in family members too. We knew that we wouldn't be able to reach anyone on a Sunday evening so we began placing calls to all of the agencies we could think of and leaving messages. We called the animal emergency clinic in case anyone brought him in due to injury and we could be notified. We reported him lost with the HomeAgain Lost Pet Hotline and used the HomeAgain site to create the Lost Pet posters. Beginning Monday, calls were placed to all shelters, local vets, boarding kennels, local groomer and pet supply stores. We made copies of the HomeAgain Lost Pet posters and posted them in every local storefront (we are so lucky that our town is super animal friendly). Both HomeAgain's number and our number was on the flier. Our town has a large population of dog owners who walk their dogs around the town so we handed a copy of the Lost Pet poster to all the people we talked to. We even gave posters to...

Gino- The Road Warrior

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:44:40 PM

Gino took off over a month ago. Today someone found him 10 miles away, in a dumpster scavenging for food, and turned him in to the SPCA who found the HomeAgain chip and called me. Tonight he is eating and lounging around the house like nothing ever happened.

Penny Is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:55:54 PM

Due to confusion while on vacation, our dog Penny wandered off during the night. Many hours of calling for her, miles traveled on foot and by car, lost and found ads posted and Lost Pet posters distributed produced no results. But thanks to Kevin, the kindhearted man from Bristol who found her and promptly contacted HomeAgain, Penny is safe at home after being gone for 8 days. The HomeAgain staff was so helpful, both at the time of reporting her missing and when she was recovered. This is the first dog we have ever microchipped but we realize it was what brought our puppy home. It is definitely worth the cost and will be routine for us with any future dogs.

Kisho is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:23:10 PM

I had just about given up on ever finding our beloved pet, Kisho. Four days had gone by and not one response. However, I decided to print out a few more of the posters HomeAgain supplied for us and started to place them in pet supply stores in the area. At the third store I went to, a man at the checkout counter who after looking at the poster said that he had our dog at his home. What were the chances of walking into that store exactly at the right moment?

Thank You HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:09:49 AM

I really want to thank HomeAgain. When our cat first disappeared it was such a relief to know one phone call and the word went out to over 100 people, within 15 minutes. My job was to canvas the area and talk to neighbors, there were so many kind people offering to lend a hand. The Lost Pet poster download was a great template and we hung 25 color posters all over the neighborhood. I do not know what I would have done if HomeAgain did not help me. The money on microchipping was the best money and the best piece of mind I have ever invested in.

Far From Home, But a Runner Found Him!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:09:37 PM

Three days after he escaped from our yard, our dog Luke, was spotted by someone who called the HomeAgain lost pet number. Unfortunately, after we got there he had disappeared again. The next day, he was seen about a mile away in the opposite direction of the sighting the day before. This time, a runner came across him, and he had crossed a very busy intersection. The runner and someone else, who was also walking in the area that Sunday morning, cornered him, so he couldn't escape. The runner knew she had seen the HomeAgain lost pet posters in our neighborhood about a lost Beagle, so she carried Luke home with her and called us to pick him up. She had seen our number posted on the HomeAgain Lost Pet posters on stop signs all over the neighborhood. I'm now grateful for all the stop signs in our area, as they provide a good location for posters about lost pets!

Missing For Twenty Minutes

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:24:05 PM

A roofing contractor came by to give me an estimate recently. I did not realize my 12 year old daughter had let the dogs out back when I saw Kofi, our tiny dog, barking at the front door. I then knew that the side gate had been left open and Rambo was gone, for he is a runner! Right then we jumped into our car and off we went, looking for him. We had only searched two city blocks when I received a cell phone call. It was HomeAgain, advising us that Rambo had been found by a young man by the name of Joel. Rambo was only three blocks away from home, the entire ordeal lasted only twenty minutes. Elisa, my daughter with tears of joy was reunited with her little friend. HomeAgain absolutely is worth every penny! Thank you HomeAgain, and thank you Joel for the call to HomeAgain.

Paris Located, Not Far From Home

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 10, 2010 10:23:02 PM

Thanks to the kindness and loving generosity of two individuals, Paris was safely returned to us today. Approximately, 6 days from the initial day she went missing on the 4th July. Two remarkable people found her wondering about 6 blocks from home and very frightened. They took excellent care of Paris until we could be located. Although Paris had a microchip the vet who did the implant did not register her information, making it impossible for these individuals to trace Paris to her owners (they had taken her into their Vet on the same day they found her). The vet detected the chip but no owner information was associated with it. I followed all of HomeAgain’s recommendations and posted flyers and visited every animal shelter and dog rescue within a 20 mile radius of my home. Eventually these efforts paid off. As part of my morning routine I visited the two animal shelters near me, and within 20 minutes of visiting the Dumb Friend League in Denver, I received a call notifying me that Paris was j...

A Quick Recovery

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 09, 2010 1:33:44 PM

Our dog just came home from major surgery and was seriously drugged. We are very certain that someone was in our yard, as well as our neighbors, and left some gates open. Long story short, our very doped up dog wandered out and decided to try to shake off his meds. The good news, he was found due to the HomeAgain Lost Pet neighborhood alert. A very happy ending for sure.

Miracle Recovery

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:41:01 PM

Ty was lost after jumping out of our car window on a gravel road in the mountains of Southern Colorado on our way up to a day hike. When it was realized he was missing, we looked for him for hours. We found out later he had run from a potential rescuer less than 1 hour after escaping the car. He was seen a few times immediately post disappearance, and then 2 days after disappearing. We notified HomeAgain who sent us Lost Posters Posters. We put them out all over the area and spoke to everyone around. The people there were wonderful and dog friendly. Everyone was looking for him, but he is very skittish and would not come around. Finally, 8 days after going missing, a cabin owner was out cleaning and doing maintenance and saw him lying in the lawn. They took him immediately to the vet, and because he had seen his lost posters they called HomeAgain, who contacted me. I was able to authorize vet services over the phone. He was severely dehydrated and hypothermic and had a very weak and slow p...

Runaway Rocky

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:01:19 AM

Rocky has always liked to sit in the front yard of our home and watch the neighborhood in action. We rescued him 3 years ago. Rocky is such a lazy boy and never seemed to be a wanderer. He had never tried to run away or go visiting the neighbors prior to July 4. That day seemed to be no different than any other. He was sitting on the front porch enjoying the view. A half hour later we went to go check on him. His harness was still tethered to the porch, stretched as far as it would go, but no Rocky. We immediately began searching the neighborhood, which is near the intersection of 2 very busy roads. No luck. We contacted all the shelters, rescue groups and online lost dog sites. We also reported him missing on the HomeAgain website. We posted over 250 flyers on doors, community bulletin boards, telephone poles and anywhere else we could put a flyer. We searched an average 10 hours a day for 3 days. We received a phone call that he had been seen, but the caller said she couldn't remember what...

Lost Cat

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:01:32 AM

Rupert was newly adopted from animal rescue, and had integrated into the family well. He liked his older cat brother, and had begun to be able to go outside onto the patio for brief visits. Unfortunately, he got spooked by a leaf blower next door and disappeared for 10 days...until he was turned found by animal rescue and was scanned for his HomeAgain chip. Rupert is back with us now, and will get to spend even more time with us and his brother. Hopefully he won't run away again. For all of Rupert’s boldness he was only four blocks away when they found him! Thank you for your wonderful product and support team.

Collar Failure, HomeAgain Success

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:30:41 PM

Very recently, Moose and Grizzly's wireless fence batteries went dead - without our knowledge. By the time my husband said, "I wonder were the puppies are?” We looked outside where they usually played, and they were nowhere to be seen. Then, like someone had been listening to us, we received a call from HomeAgain. The puppies had managed to get half a mile through the dense woods behind our house, cross a major intersection, and were found walking down the street. We didn't pay much attention to our HomeAgain service, since we have a wireless fence, but thank goodness we had it. When I stopped by to personally thank our neighbors they told me that "it was a great service." All they did was make a call and they were connected to us. I'm going to renew my membership for life - thank you HomeAgain.

Found Dog

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:21:18 PM

My puppy was missing for two days during the holiday weekend. With much loss of sleep and prayers with my 5 year old daughter, we were hoping she would come home safe. 2 days later I received a call from HomeAgain and was connected to the person who found her. She took my puppy to a local vet that scanned her for the microchip and she was identified. I went and picked her up and brought her home to my family. It was the worst 2 days not knowing where she was or what was happening, but to see her little face again was the best joy. If you have not microchipped your pet, please do so. I will always microchip every pet I have from today on. Without it I would not have my baby home.

Bored and Alone

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:02:20 AM

Brutus, the greatest dog ever, didn't come from the greatest start in life. He was a junkyard dog and they kept in an unheated garage. He wasn't played with, had no toys, no friends, and wasn't fed properly. So when I found him and brought him home to be part of my family, I vowed to give him all the love, attention, and protection I possibly could. I got him his shots, got his weight under control, fixed his skin problem, and got him fixed. At first I wasn't too keen on the idea of getting him microchipped. I was scared it would be painful and didn't really think I would ever need to use a system like that. After all, I was going to protect him and keep him close. But then I learned that the county I live in only keeps dogs for 3 days after being turned in. What if something happened and Brutus got out, or worse yet, stolen? What would I do? How would I prove he was mine? After all there are not DNA tests to prove you're the owner of your pet. I had no protection for him and with him being such a sweet dog I...

My Angel

Found Pets Home — Monday, July 05, 2010 9:48:54 AM

Our Chihuahua, Ginger was hit by a truck 3 blocks from where we were. She was scared because of fireworks, so we assumed she was hiding under the deck. My cell phone rang and it was HomeAgain calling to say someone had found our dog and that she was hurt. We rushed to get her and took her to the emergency vet. If not for the tag with the HomeAgain info we would not have our Ginger back. She is in the hospital as I write, with no broken bones but some head trauma. We are waiting for news on her condition. Once again, if we had not registered our 4 dogs we would not have our baby back. Thank you for such a helpful service.

The Chip Works!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, July 04, 2010 7:35:29 PM

15-year-old Duchess escaped our yard Thursday night (July 1st) after a storm blew down some fencing (which we did not notice, but she sure did!). She was not wearing her collar so we were really worried about her, especially since she is deaf and has multiple medical problems. We notified HomeAgain, printed the posters and received a call today (Sunday, July 4th) from Banfield clinic at our local PetSmart. A family had found Duchess and had her for the past few days. They took her to Banfield today to have her "checked out" and the clinic scanned her and we got the wonderful call that our family member had been found! She is back home, napping beside our bed, and everyone is grateful for a happy ending. Thanks HomeAgain!

Lucy's Home

Found Pets Home — Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:46:28 AM

When Lucy wandered away from home I was sick, she is so tiny and we live in a rural area, I was sure something had happened to her. Realizing that some people may not check for a microchip, I had posters made with her microchip number and the phone number of HomeAgain. That would keep people from randomly calling us or knowing where we live. 4 days later someone called and we were told she was just fine and where to pick her up. They had not thought of a microchip, just as I had suspected! I was thrilled and she literally jumped into my arms when I got out of the car. It was such a relief! I could finally sleep again! Thank you HomeAgain!

Found!!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 03, 2010 7:27:37 PM

My dogs can get out of the fence on occasion when we usually leave the gate open by accident. Flapjack was an 8 month old puppy the first time, and he was just following his older friend, our 4 year old Wheaten Terrier. Both dogs were missing for 2 long days and nights. They were thankfully picked up by a concerned person and taken 100 miles away because that person was on their way home from work. I actually made a poster and posted some alerts on different web sites, in desperation to find them. The people took them to their vet the next day and they scanned them for a microchip. They immediately contacted me, and we were reunited!!! We are very thankful for HomeAgain. I am actually a Veterinary Technician who works for a very busy Veterinary practice, and I make sure all of our clients know the importance of this procedure.

Immediate Value!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, July 03, 2010 6:44:17 AM

Our family adopted Clyde from a reputable and well established shelter last summer. We hadn't had Clyde for very long before the value of HomeAgain was realized. Clyde got away from us while visiting our parents (30 min from our home) and while he was only several houses away (in the backyard) the owners called the HomeAgain number on his collar. As we weren't available at home at the time, HomeAgain called the alternate number in our profile--which was our parents! Needless to say we were quickly reunited with our pet. I have to say I am indeed impressed with the HomeAgain service! Thank you!!

Where's Ace??

Found Pets Home — Friday, July 02, 2010 5:57:44 PM

I work as a trucker, so my dog Ace is my co-driver and constant companion. I was having a bad day, I had been up too long. I had to drop and hook a trailer so I jumped out of the truck, left the door and open jumped back in. Traffic was terrible on this day (July 2), and time was short. I was in the middle of Norfolk Virginia when I looked on the sleeper- no Ace. I panicked, looked in all the spots in the cab, no Ace. I was trying to turn around to go back to the shipper when my cell rang. It was HomeAgain. A kind soul had found Ace and called. What a relief and a good end to a lousy day.

Bam Bam Was Found

Found Pets Home — Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:32:39 PM

My wife and I were at a Dennys when I received a phone call from HomeAgain telling me that Bam Bam was found by a city worker in the town over. I call the friend that was sitting my dog in his home to ask him how Bam Bam was doing. He told me he was fine, and that he was in the back yard. I asked him to go check on him. He did, then he came back to the phone to tell me he was gone. I told him I already knew and a city worker had him. He told me he was sorry and that it would not happen again. I said it’s o.k. but not to let him out of his sight, he's my baby boy!

WOW! This Actually Works!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:47:58 PM

Our family dog got out during a storm on a Saturday night. We were at a park stuck waiting for my son's all-star t-ball game. When we got home we noticed she had gotten out. We looked that night, as well as on Sunday with nothing to be found. We sent out a blast email to the neighborhood. On Tuesday, I went to the local shelter to see if they had her, I was upset when she was not there. I then decided that I needed to get her microchip registered. So I had to call Austin, Texas where we first bought her to see if the they had records of the number from back in 2000. They called me back that night and told me the number. I then registered with HomeAgain and put out the ad that she was lost. That very next day at work I got a call and could not believe that someone actually found her! I talked to Wanda and she was telling me all about my dog and then sent me a picture and sure enough it was Hailey! Apparently Wanda put up posters too, but the wind blew them all away. She then talked to h...

We Only Left For Work

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:53:54 PM

My girlfriend was watching Jackson while I was on a business trip. When she left for work, and got in her car Jackson followed her without her knowing he was behind her. Little did she know, she drove off with Jackson looking for a way back in the gate. Once everyone realized he was gone the frantic search was on. We immediately notified HomeAgain and called all of the local shelters to see if anyone had turned in a black lab or called. About 4:30 the same day, a neighbor a few blocks away called to turn in a lost black Labrador, and the connection was made. Jackson is HomeAgain and safe.

Visiting the Neighbors

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 28, 2010 11:20:36 PM

My indoor cat, Imp, escaped through the garage one Saturday. Worried, sick, I scoured the neighborhood and started posting Lost Pet Posters about my lost cat. That Saturday neighbors down the street heard a cat meowing. First they thought he was outside, but then the meows seemed to be inside their house! They didn't actually see the cat for a couple of days, but he kept them up all night with his meows. They thought they were imagining things! Finally, Imp appeared! They called HomeAgain to report him after seeing the postings about my lost cat. Imp is now finished with his neighborly visits and is delighted to be in his "own" house with his partner, Sweet Pea.

He's Back!!!

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 28, 2010 3:50:41 PM

I received a call this morning from HomeAgain. Not knowing who it was calling, I Iet the call go to voicemail. I listened to the voicemail and it was Brian with HomeAgain...OMG, we were so excited. I called back Brian and he gave the person who had found my dog my number. I missed her call, since I was already getting dressed to go pick up my dog. I called back Marie and she told me the story on where she found him and said that others had seen him with a leash around his neck, they took the leash off but still let him roam the area, so that is when she took him in. She took him to the vet’s office and that’s where he was scanned for a microchip. I went to the vet’s office to pick him up and when he saw me he jumped on me and gave me kisses, lots of kisses. He had been missing for a month now. He’s not responding to his original name, so whomever had him, renamed him. We knew all along that someone had to have taken him in as their own pet. All in all, he's back... And we love him just the same!...

Before I Knew It

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 25, 2010 11:08:08 AM

Thank you so much HomeAgain! I was babysitting and my husband was at work when we got the call late at night about our dog, Bella. We hadn't been home for a few hours so didn't realize she had snuck out of our fence. What could have been a stressful night of searching for our beloved baby girl, ended up being a joyful reunion! HomeAgain was so quick at providing us the information we needed while we weren't at home. I cannot say how grateful we are for this service! Thank you thank you thank you!

4th of July Scare!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:01:12 PM

One year I had asked my mom to babysit my dog, Sunny. I was going to a party and knew that she gets skittish when she hears firecrackers, so I didn’t want her to be home alone. It was already late in the evening (10-ish) when my mom took her for an evening walk. A couple of neighborhood kids had set off some firecrackers. Sunny was so startled, she bolted. My mom couldn't keep up with her. She went back and got in her car and drove around looking for her. When I came over the next day to pick her up my mom told me what happened. I was so devastated. That same day I went and posted up flyers everywhere. I even went up to a few people that were doing yard work. A week later I got a phone call from a woman who picked up Sunny. She said she was driving home and there was Sunny, running full speed in the middle of the road. She said she pulled next to her and opened her car door and Sunny jumped in without hesitation. She knew Sunny was distressed because she sank to the floor and was shaking. She made...

More Than Just The Chip!!!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:24:46 AM

We purchased a microchip for our dog Joey 9 years ago when he was just a puppy. Recently Joey went missing from our front yard. We knew that he had been taken and were heart-broken. We immediately posted homemade signs asking for his return, filed a police report and started going to all the vets and humane society's letting them know he was missing. I got on HomeAgain’s web site to update Joeys chip info and noticed the Lost Dog Posters that HomeAgain puts together for us. I filled everything out and printed the poster off. I went and had copies made and started handing them out and hanging them up. 2 days later someone pulled up in the driveway and gave us back our baby boy!!! They had seen his picture on the poster and realized that he was microchipped and belonged to us. Thank you so much HomeAgain for providing more than just the microchip!!!!!! The people had seen our homemade signs but didn't think anything of them. It was your professional looking full color posters that finally caught their e...

Hugs is Home After 8 Long Weeks!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:15:02 PM

We moved into a new home on April 1st and our kitty, Hugs, slipped out the front door unnoticed on April 9th. She is a 7 year old indoor kitty, so we were very worried about her safety and we were having tremendous rain storms that we knew were keeping her from "smelling" her way home. We called HomeAgain and reported her missing right away. We tirelessly posted Lost Pet Posters and went door-to-door every day. It rained heavily in April and most of May, but we did not give up, we continued our search despite the rain. We got lots of calls from people thinking they had seen her, but every time, it was not our cat. We hired tracking dogs to follow her scent, with no luck. We rented a cat "trap" and put it outside our front door with food, hoping that it would attract her. I think we caught every neighborhood cat but our own. Sorry kitties! On the day that marked 8 weeks of Hugs being gone, we got a call from a wonderful lady that had seen our Lost Pet Poster and she was not sure if it was our ca...

A MOUNTAIN of a Miracle for McKinley

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:15:54 PM

You will not believe how amazing this story is... I am still finding it difficult to believe myself! McKinley was born August 2001 into a puppy mill. I got him weighing barely a pound and bottle fed him for a month. He was my "baby" and my daughters and I spoiled him rotten. I used to joke that I had a Pekingese with a German Sheppard complex - because he always acted like he was as big and as great as the mountain he was named for... I think we all felt that way about him. After a bath in July of 2005, McKinley managed to sneak past us out the door and make his way into the world; with no collar and no tags. He disappeared without a trace. Months of endless searching and posting hundreds of posters brought no response, heartbreak set in. McKinley had vanished. That was five years ago. I have since moved to another city and both of my daughters have gone off to school. We stopped searching the old neighborhood for him and the posters were long gone, but I never stopped checking with his microchip w...

Nikki is HomeAgain!

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 21, 2010 4:41:45 PM

A family found our dog, Nikki, wandering on a busy street and stopped to pick her up. The brought her home and called HomeAgain. We are so grateful for people like Kathy and her family that took the time to rescue our dog and care for her until I came to pick her up. What a wonderfully concerned family. Thank you. and thank heaven for HomeAgain.

Welcome Home Tinker Bell

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 21, 2010 1:57:00 AM

We lost Tinker Bell at 3pm and by 3:45 we started posting the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters HomeAgain provides. She was wearing the Home Again dog tag which had the HomeAgain toll free number. We received a call from a HomeAgain representative around 9pm stating someone had called and wanted to return our puppy who is 4 only months old. Without the posters HomeAgain provided and the tag Tink was wearing with the number, I don't know if she would have ended up back home. Thank you so much HomeAgain. To anyone thinking about this chip, don't think, just do it. We are so grateful to have Tinker Bell home.

Thank God for HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:08:13 PM

Yesterday my family's 4 year old seal point Siberian Husky, Maggie, escaped her locked run and went for a long run around the neighborhood. Thankfully she had on her collar and HomeAgain tag. She was found just a few blocks from home by a young man who was able to get close to her and saw her HomeAgain tag and called to report that she had been found. HomeAgain, in turn, called us and within ten minutes of getting their call we were in the young man's yard where she had been found. He said he was just glad that he had found her and that she happened to have her tag on her collar. I was glad that I had left her collar on her the last time I had brushed her. I will soon be getting my other two dogs and my three cats microchipped as well. Thank God that Maggie’s former owners had taken the time to have her microchipped when they got her.

Home Again After a Year!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:45:35 PM

We lost our pet almost a year ago. Two weekends ago our local shelter came knocking on our door. They had found our dog! We had a new phone number so they were unable to reach us so they took the extra trip to our home! Lesson learned - keep your information updated on HomeAgain! We are thrilled beyond words as Beau's sister Jesse was so sad since he ran off. They are so happy to be reunited and their tails wag in unison every time they see each other!

Hopeless Hope

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 14, 2010 7:06:02 PM

Our family member Murphy escaped from our home, yesterday around 7:30pm. Unfortunately we had just moved to a new state and Murphy was not wearing any ID tags so we thought we would never see him again. I then remembered that the shelter we rescued Murphy from equipped him with a HomeAgain microchip! And sure enough by the following morning we had received a call from HomeAgain, from the Animal Hospital in our area that someone had taken our beloved Beagle to! We got our Murphy back!

Pippin Almost Gets A New Home...

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 14, 2010 5:34:18 PM

I was beside myself when I found that Reno's notorious wind had blown open my door and my Pippin was nowhere to be found. To make matters worse, he doesn't wear a collar when we're at home, and it was getting dark. I set out yelling for him, and spent all night and the next day searching for him and putting up flyers. By the time the next day came, I was beginning to fear that I'd never see him again. I ended up at a nearby apartment complex, half-heartedly putting up the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters in the hallways. Suddenly a little girl I passed minutes before came running up to me shouting that she read the flyer, and knew where Pippin was. She led me to a nearby apartment, where my poor Pip was being left outside on a hot summer day, NEVER a good thing for pugs. They bought him a new collar, and bowl- and he had only been missing for less than two days!!! When I rang the doorbell they didn’t even really apologize for not turning him in, they, also pretended not to live there. It was clear th...

My Baby is Home

Found Pets Home — Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:12:03 PM

My dog, Priya, went missing during a storm. She went into a neighbor’s yard and they just let her out without bothering to see if she was mine. For four days I lived in agony, crying all the time and even sleeping holding her collar. I had just hung up posters in another neighborhood and finished my daily search, and was at home watching a movie, when I received a call from HomeAgain. Never have I been happier in my entire life. My baby was safe and brought home. I can't thank HomeAgain or the wonderful people who took such good care of my baby enough.

Checked for a Chip

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 11, 2010 10:07:14 PM

Hummer wandered off to a local apartment complex. He made friends with the residents, but they didn't want him to come in to their apartments, and they hoped he would return to his home. After about four days of hanging outside the apartments, Hummer decided to chance going inside one of the apartments. The owner did not like that so he took him to the apartment manager. She decided it was time to take Hummer to a local vet clinic to check for a microchip. Within an hour of Hummer being checked out, the vet clinic was able to contact us and return him to us. We were very happy to have Hummer found and returned so quickly.

Best Phone Call Ever!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:27:31 AM

I was at work one day when I received a call from our vet. They were calling to let me know that they had our toy poodle, Kyra, who had been turned in by 3 young children. Kyra had been found wandering a busy street where she was almost hit by a car! :( These children saw her and tracked her down. They took her in and ended up taking her to the vet who scanned her for a microchip. I was then called--within hours of her loss. After picking her up, I arrived home to find our gate wide open. There had been a thunder and lightning storm, and we guessed that after going out to explore, the storm began and she got spooked. (She is terrified of thunder.) I can't imagine how afraid she must have been to run like that. Had it not been for those children taking her in and checking with the vet, we may never have found her. We are so grateful to them. MIcrochipping works! If Kyra had not had a chip, she would not have found her way home. We are so happy to have her home. We love her so much. Thank...

10 Year-Missing Pug

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:11:54 PM

We had purchased a puppy (a pug) about 10 and 1/2 years ago for our daughter who was 2 years old at the time. We got him from a pet store. He was already microchiped so we registered the microchip with all our information. After 6 months of owning him he somehow got out. Two years went by and no sight or word of him anywhere. We had moved away to another home across town and our phone numbers have been changed. Recently, a woman contacted us on Facebook asking if we had lost a dog. We replied back, telling her we had about 10 yrs ago. To our amazement it was our long lost dog. She had found him and took him to a vet and they ran a check for a microchip, and our info came up. WOW over 10 years later!! We went and picked him up, but unfortunately my other dog did not get along with him. So we found a friend who was looking for a pet, and she has taken over owner ship of him. I now have peace of mind that he is safe, being taken good care of, and is in a good home.

Thank You Home Again!!

Found Pets Home — Monday, June 07, 2010 2:44:27 PM

Lilly disappeared from our backyard early Monday morning. She had never left the house before. We don't know how she got out. As soon as we noticed we reported her to HomeAgain. We were very worried for her and also very concerned because she belongs to a "special needs child". Our child spends most of her time with Lilly. We were worry sick that our child was going to suffer tremendously without Lilly. Within hours, an animal hospital contacted us and told us they had Lilly. A good Samaritan had dropped her off there. Our hearts filled with joy! And the best part is that my child didn't even notice the whole ordeal because she was in school. Thanks HomeAgain, for this successful and quick recovery!

The Day My Best Friend Went Missing...

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 04, 2010 1:40:54 AM

One day Tommy was at Grandma Jean’s (she lives two drive ways down from us) while I went to stay at my Aunts. When I came back the next day Tommy was not at grandmas. I made mom take me to the house but Tommy was not there either. I called and called for him. He always comes when he hears me, but I waited and waited and he did not come to me. I was very upset. My mommy drove around the neighborhood and we called for him but we did not find him. Mommy called our neighbors but no one knew where Tommy was. I was so scared and sad. What if I could never find Tommy? My mommy logged on to the HomeAgain site and reported Tommy missing. They told my mommy to recheck the neighborhood, and we did but still no Tommy. They also gave tips on making flyers and getting help to search for Tommy. They told mommy to call the vets office and the human society. Mommy did this and reported Tommy missing. We went to the human society and the woman took one of our flyers and let us look at all the dogs. It was sad, I wante...

In A Neighbor's Garage!

Found Pets Home — Friday, June 04, 2010 12:11:41 AM

My cat, Olivia, had been missing for over 5 days! I placed the Lost Pet Posters from HomeAgain all over our neighborhood and under the doormats of our neighbors’ houses. Last night, my next door neighbor told me that she was talking to the elderly (and hard of hearing) neighbor next to her and said that she thought she heard a cat in her yard. Guess what?! Olivia was locked in their garage under their house! My neighbor and I jumped up and down and hugged with joy! The minute Olivia heard my voice she was meowing like crazy! We are HomeAgain and she is enjoying a large bowl of milk and her favorite treats. :) Thank you HomeAgain!

Thanks HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:20:28 PM

My dog went missing on June 1, 2010 and on June 2, 2010 at 11:39 am I got a phone call from the HomeAgain people saying a lady called who thinks she found a dog matching the Lost Pet Poster description. They gave me the lady's name and number and I was able to go pick up my dog! Thanks HomeAgain, I'm happy that Gucci had a microchip, now my baby is home.

HomeAgain Success Story

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 31, 2010 11:25:24 PM

Ellie's story is a true testament to the success of microchipping and HomeAgain. On May 29, 2010, Ellie received her microchip as a result of her 2 hour adventure through the neighborhood the previous Thursday. Since it was a holiday weekend and she was the last appointment of the day her information was not entered into the HomeAgain database by the vet. Two day later, she managed to escape from her fenced in yard and decided to go on another adventure. This time she was armed with her microchip and the yellow HomeAgain tag attached to her collar. For the next 5 hours, while I waited for that call to tell me she was found, I searched up and down the streets of our neighborhood and all other neighborhoods in the vicinity. Feeling as if I couldn't just sit and do nothing I picked up the phone can called HomeAgain. I figured the least I could do is report her as lost. When they searched for her information there was nothing on file yet. So the operator searched for any pets found in the area ...

Reunited After 18 Months Apart

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 31, 2010 10:10:23 PM

18 months ago I lived in San Diego when my dog ran away. I posted signs in the neighborhood, local stores, used a pet amber alert that called a radius of 10 miles and 500 calls, called all the shelters, and posted numerous ads on craigslist.org, but after 4 months of searching, there was still no sign of finding him. Two months later, I moved back to Washington, DC, praying my dog had found a home with a loving owner. Two weeks ago, I get a phone call from the San Diego shelter, they scanned his chip and they found ZEN!!!! He was well taken care of, had recently been groomed, did not have any wounds and was as friendly as ever. He must have ran from the people who had found him originally him, a neighbor found him, turned him into the shelter, they scanned his HomeAgain chip and.....boom after 18 months missing...Zen and I are reunited and it feels so good. I had to have him shipped from California to DC, but ultimately, we haven't skipped a beat. It took him 10 minutes to walk in the hous...

Dog Returned

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 31, 2010 8:56:28 AM

I put up so many of the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters that someone in the area had to recognize my Bailey. Someone picked up my dog right on my street but did not call the police or animal shelter- they bought him a collar, bathed him, and bought lots of food. Someone else, living two blocks away, recognized that they had found my dog when he saw one of the 100 posters I put up in the area. I knew someone was bound to recognize him. That family's child cried that they had to give my dog back! Now we are back together and I am just happy he is home.

Restored Hope

Found Pets Home — Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:14:58 PM

Today was a day of high and lows. I received a call last night, that my dog was Kiki found. I got so excited I could not sleep at all. My dog was found from the description on the Lost Pet Poster provided by HomeAgain. However, when we went to pick up the supposed Kiki, the dog came out it was not Kiki. My heart sunk again and there was uncontrolled sadness afterwards. I got on-line again and added her to other sites: ebay, craiglist, fidofinder and others. It was after seven pm I received a call, asking for me by first name, “speaking” I said, she replied “This PetSmart and someone turned in your Kiki.” I shouted with excitement off the chart! Off we went to pick up my Kiki. Now we are reunited and she is safe at home after two weeks missing today. I will recommend the microchip to all my friends and relatives. Thank you HomeAgain

When I lost Graham

Found Pets Home — Friday, May 28, 2010 4:36:28 AM

It was a nightmare, I was at work and my boyfriend called me saying that our dog, Graham, had escaped and he was nowhere to be found. I went home after work and searched and didn't find any sign. After a few short hours I got a phone call from the animal shelter and they addressed me by my full name, address and told me that they had found Graham. It was amazing how they had all this information. Without HomeAgain I wouldn't have Graham again, it's one of the best investments.

Flash Home Safe

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:08:10 PM

Flash is an indoor/outdoor cat. He always comes in at night. Two nights ago when we called for him, he didn't come. It was so tough to go to bed that night without him curled up on our chair. I felt sick! We had lost a cat a year and a half ago when he disappeared and never returned. I felt hopeless. Yesterday, when he didn't come back after calling and calling for him, I decided to go on the HomeAgain site and report him lost. I was in despair. I truly had no hope. I kept thinking the worst. Later last night, I went back on the HomeAgain site. I started to read the reunion stories. I also read the article about how to be proactive in getting your pet back. Flash was a cautious cat, so I knew he wouldn't just come out of hiding if he was scared. At 10 p.m., after reading the reunion stories, I went up and down our street calling him. I also went to the back of our property and called him for a while. He didn't come. I went in, got ready for bed, cried, and checked doors to make sure ...

We Got Lucky!

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 24, 2010 11:44:40 PM

I found out my Lucky broke out of the back yard on a Saturday morning. Heartbroken, we search the neighborhood and the local pound, with no luck. Then on Monday, I called HomeAgain, to let them know that Lucky was missing, they asked me to log on and create a Lost Pet Poster with his picture. I did this about 2 pm and by 7:30 that same day I got a call from HomeAgain, stating that someone has found our dog. I contacted Candace and sure enough, it was Lucky, he got away from her, but we chased him down the road and caught him. He was hungry and scared. We brought him home and gave him a bath and fed him. We were so excited! Thank you to Candace and HomeAgain. We are so blessed and "Lucky!"

Runaway Dog

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 24, 2010 10:33:55 AM

My dog wandered out of the yard on a Saturday and didn't come home for the next few days. My fiancé went to the animal shelter to look for her, and at the same time the shelter left me a message saying they had scanned her microchip and had her! I had just updated her registration for her microchip the day before and was so glad I had so that we got her back!

Buttercup...Here Kitty Kitty

Found Pets Home — Friday, May 21, 2010 1:21:39 AM

It was Saturday morning about 6:00am; Buttercup had gotten out the slider screen door by opening it with his claws. He ended up wandering away and was gone about 4 hours before we called HomeAgain. They were on it right away. They had sent out a Lost Pet Alert along with a Lost Pet Poster to download of him. We instantly made copies of this poster and hung it everywhere we could think of. 3 days passed when HomeAgain called us after someone called them and reported finding Buttercup. HomeAgain WORKS! It’s so wonderful! Thank You HomeAgain for getting BC back to us safe and sound!

Wonders of Homeagain

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 18, 2010 6:58:22 PM

Our 3 year old cat got out one morning and we spent several hours calling him with no luck. My Wife got on the HomeAgain website and printed out the Lost Pet Poster that you provide and we place them throughout the area. The next day our children went door-to-door with some more flyers, and several people took the phone number and said if they found him they would call. On the third day, when we were starting to lose hope of ever getting him back, the phone rang and it was HomeAgain with someone that said they had found him. They placed both of us on the line together and after finding out where they lived we went down to their house to pick up our cat. We are now all back together and are very impressed with the service. It was because of the flyers that HomeAgain provides. They had seen the flyer and they saw him in their back yard and knew he was lost and got him and called it to get him to us. Thank you for a wonderful service.

I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:19:14 PM

My biggest love is my Yorkie, Tessa. At age 47, she is my first dog EVER. My husband and I got her in July of 2008 and, six months later on a nice sunny afternoon, we lost her for about three hours. I had let her out in our fenced back yard to go "potty" and went back to check on her ten minutes later, only to discover that she had somehow gotten out of the back yard. I became so concerned because she had just undergone minor surgery (spaying) a few days prior so I hadn't put her dog tags back on yet. I searched the entire yard, house, and neighborhood but to no avail. I tearfully called my husband and told him to come home from work and spilled the bad news about losing Tessa. As soon as I hung up the phone with him, I called HomeAgain to report Tessa missing and to give them a description of her. Incidentally, I had just had her microchipped and registered with HomeAgain less than a week prior to this incident. As I was speaking to a representative at Home Again, he surprisingly said "I think we...

A Happy Return

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:09:28 PM

My son, his Border Collie Bones, and our Corgi, Penny recently moved in with us. When we were getting settled into our new place we had cable installed. When the cable person left, they left all the gates open. When our dogs were let out Bones wanted to discover, and mark, his new neighborhood. He wandered away and headed home but to our old home. Someone found him in the street and Bones hopped right into the car. The person's first instinct was to keep this mellow mannered pup, but saw the HomeAgain tag. She also saw where he received his shots and took him to that veterinary clinic. Within hours I received a phone call letting me know where he was and that he was there waiting for me to pick him up. The reunion was a happy one, he jumped up to me and kissed me over and over. He has calmed down now and is settled in his new home. Thank you HomeAgain, as Bones is now homeagain.

HomeAgain Chip Reunited Our Family

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:37:25 PM

Roxy is a small medium-length coat Chihuahua. She had been alone on our gated porch more than once so we did not think she could escape – however, she could and did. Unfortunately, I took her collar off in the morning because she was scratching at it and I thought it couldn't hurt as long as she was inside or on the porch. I called animal control immediately when I found out she was gone and they told me a man reported her in a Target parking lot across the street from where we live. The street is a very busy four lane connector. I went to the parking lot and surrounding areas searching for most of the rest of the day. A tow-truck driver hauling away a car in the parking lot confirmed that he had seen Roxy and that he was not the person who called in the sighting. My two children, as well as my spouse and, I were devastated. The next day I made 100 posters with color photos, placed an announcement on Craigslist, and made two trips to one shelter and another trip to a second. I posted all of our ...

My Escape Artist

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:51:22 PM

Bella is an accomplished escape artist. She can wiggle through the smallest of holes and looks for ways to get under the fence all the time. We have only had her a few months, and decided to have her microchipped when we had her spayed. Usually when she gets out I can find her within a few minutes wandering around in someone's yard. Last week, she got out and had been out about 30 minutes before we knew she was gone. I walked the entire neighborhood and the large field behind us several times, and even drove my car through the neighborhood, too. No sign of her, and no one had seen her. She is small and not used to being on the street. I was terrified she would be hit, plus it was supposed to storm that night and I knew she'd be afraid. After walking and searching for almost 3 hours non-stop, I was on my way back to the house to call HomeAgain to report her missing. About halfway home, my cell phone rang. It was HomeAgain! Someone had found her and called HomeAgain to report it. I was so relieved I...

So Relieved!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:19:40 AM

I'm currently having some work done in my house. This afternoon, the workers left the front door open and my dog Suzy wandered out. She is 15 years old and very arthritic but that didn't keep her from exploring (although you might think that it would!) I was completely beside myself when I realized she had escaped. I put ads on craigslist and searched my neighborhood in my car. Then at 9:00 in the evening I called HomeAgain who sent out a Lost Pet Email Alert. Within 2 hours I received a call that someone had found my Suzy. The number I had on her tag was outdated but the people who found her knew to contact HomeAgain because they had received the Lost Pet Alert in an e-mail. What a great service!! I went to get Suzy and I was so happy to see her! Thank you neighbors and HomeAgain!!

Dog from Michigan Found in Illinois

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:54:19 PM

A Long Way from Home

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:50:53 AM

My dog Frankie went missing in January 2010. We contacted you at that time to report him missing, ran ads in the papers, put signs up, and offered a reward. We heard nothing. As the months went on we became more and more discouraged. I thought I would never see my dog again. On May 10th I received a call from Wheeling Animal Hospital saying they had my dog. He was 203 miles (a 3 hour and 52 minute drive) away from home. We went and picked him up. Thanks to our HomeAgain chip they were able to see he belonged to us. My most sincere gratitude to this service and recommend it highly to any pet owner.

Benjamin and Cosmo Return HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 10, 2010 9:53:13 PM

We had just moved to the mountains of North Carolina with our 2 adopted pound dogs- Benjamin and Cosmo, who we adopted together in Norfolk, VA. They "let themselves out" of my house yesterday on Mother's Day while I was napping and took a hike up into the mountains. I was sure we'd never see them again. I updated my information on the HomeAgain site and waited for the next day to come. This morning before lunch I received a call at work notifying me that someone had found Benjamin. When the HomeAgain operator connected me with the hero who found my 'boys', Cosmo was right there with his buddy Benjamin as well. I am so grateful to HomeAgain for your service and to my neighbor across the hill who took the time to take care of my boys and even delivered them home to my house as I was at work 35 miles away and secured them in their fenced lot- from which they do NOT escape.

HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 10, 2010 8:16:29 PM

Layla escaped from our backyard, we searched the neighborhood and couldn't find her! Within 20 minutes of calling HomeAgain to report her lost, we received a call that she was a few streets away playing with the neighbors children. I have never been so grateful! Thank you HomeAgain!

WOW - What One Email can Accomplish!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, May 09, 2010 12:10:53 PM

A couple days ago I got this email for a lost lab and noticed it was the same neighborhood my best friend lives in (Dr. Philips, Florida). So I immediately forwarded the email to her and her husband and she had a look at it while checking her morning email. She called me and said "Hey - I saw this dog yesterday in the guard shack where I just took my daughter's friend home after school!" Someone had found the dog wandering on a main road, picked it up and dropped it off at the guard shack to the community before they went in. He told my friend it wasn't his but he'd keep it hoping someone recognized it until he got off work at 6 a.m. and then he'd take it to animal control because he lived in an apartment and couldn't take it home with him. She gave him her number to call in the morning and told him she'd come get it if he didn't find the owner and take it to a vet to be scanned so it didn't have to go to the shelter ... It was about 10 a.m. and she hadn't heard from the guard when she received m...

Found!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:18:04 AM

Our cat, Pax, disappeared April 1. An indoor-outdoor kitty, he never failed to come home at night, so we knew something was wrong that evening when we called and called for him and he didn't come running up. My daughters, distraught, made signs and posted them around the neighborhood. My husband and I contacted HomeAgain and listed him as lost. We were heartened the following day when our pet sitter came by and told us she had seen the Home Again alert and would keep her eyes peeled. Sadly, though, there was no trace of Pax, and as the days and weeks passed, we began to prepare our children for the growing possibility that he wasn't coming back. None of us could walk past the window where Pax loved to wait to come in (his own version of a pet door) without casting a hopeful look. So I couldn't have been more surprised on May 5 -- more than a month after Pax had disappeared -- to get a call from a veterinarian's office saying that they had Pax! I ran to get my children from school and we traveled ...

One Exhausted Dog

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:48:34 PM

Our dog, McLaren, was missing for 4 days. I hit the road, and my wife worked the computer. She set up our HomeAgain account and after 4 sleepless nights driving, it was not my hard work in the field, but her setting up the account that lead to our reunion. A nearby business that returned to work on Monday found Mclaren. They went online, found Mclaren on the HomeAgain site, called us, and voila - we were reunited with Mclaren - we are now lifetime HomeAgain customers.

He's Back!!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:19:53 PM

Thank you HomeAgain for providing the Lost Dog Poster. I know I went on the site 6 or more times yesterday, updating my information to the poster and submitting photos. The pre-made posters were very helpful as I didn't have much time on my hands to make them myself. The wait time for the approval of the posters was not long, and I am glad there is not a limit to how many times we can edit the poster. After I distributed and hung up 50 poster in my neighborhood, I got a call about 12 hours later saying they had my dog. That was the happiest moment for both of us. Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you!

We got Niki back!

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:56:42 AM

I was at a convention when I got a call that Niki had gotten out. She was found at our local park and someone took her home and found out she was chipped. They called HomeAgain and then HomeAgain called us. We were able to leave immediately to go pick up Niki. Unfortunately, one of Niki's dog pals also got out around the same time and he was not so lucky. He was hit by a car and had to have one of his legs amputated. Thank you HomeAgain for returning my dog safely to me!

Holly Found!

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:06:18 PM

My daughter had our dog, Holly, on the front porch, and she took off toward the highway. She chased after her, but couldn't find her. Six hours later, we got a call from the SPCA...the microchip did its job! Holly had been found on the Interstate and had almost caused an accident, but thankfully, she was okay.

Zak is Home

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:40:17 PM

On April 11th, Zak our pointer mix ran away. It was a very sad day. Just less than a week earlier our family had agreed to take guardianship of two sweet children we knew from church to keep them out of DHS custody. The four year old boy is the one who let Zak out. My three children stared to really resent this poor little boy since he lost their dog. Zak was wearing a collar and a tag when he ran away. We put up signs all over so someone might be able to help us. It wasn't until today, May 4th, that we heard something. Our sweet Zak was found about 30 miles away, without a collar or tags. However, a friendly lady named Deborah saw him running down the road so she took him to the local shelter. They were not willing to take Zak but they did scan him. Through his HomeAgain microchip she was able to get in contact with me. Zak is a Pointer mix, so that makes him a dog that loves to get out and run. We never voluntarily let him, but he sometimes finds a way out to the woods behind our house...

Two Months Missing

Found Pets Home — Monday, May 03, 2010 7:22:31 PM

Two months ago Rocky was inadvertently locked out of the house for a period of five hours. We could not find any trace of him and were very concerned. After 3 days we put up the HomeAgain Lost Pet Posters in the neighborhood. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months. Rocky was presumed to be a casualty of the fox and coyote population in the area. But, today the call came after 59 days missing that a nice person had turned him into the local humane society who promptly scanned him and called us at work. We are thrilled to have our beloved pet back home. If you have lost a pet and have given up hope you may be surprised to get that phone call someday. Microchipping your pet works!

Thank You HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:04:32 AM

April 22, our cat got out. We called HomeAgain, they were very friendly and helpful. We created a flyer from HomeAgain website and posted them all over the area. We searched the neighborhood day after day, along with help from our wonderful neighbors... May 1st the phone call came that we had been waiting for. One of our neighbors found our cat and put her in their house until we were able to go get her. Our Angel is HomeAgain. Thank you to the professionals at HomeAgain, and our wonderful neighbors that helped!!!

A 33 Hour Adventure

Found Pets Home — Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:51:49 PM

My fiancé and I go out for dinner every Sunday night to a local restaurant, and last Sunday was no exception. We got home at the usual hour of 9:30pm. We didn't notice that our cat had slipped out of the apartment until Monday morning. Sophie is an indoor cat only, the only outside time she has is going out on our balcony when we are home. When I noticed she wasn't anywhere to be found in the apartment, my friend and I searched for her all morning outside. I was so distraught at work that I took off at my lunch to continue the search. I went to the local animal shelters and different vet clinics nearby to see if she was there, she wasn't. I picked up my fiancé early from work and we went to a printing shop and printed off 200+ HomeAgain flyers. We called up our friends who live in the same complex and canvassed the apartment complex with the "lost cat" flyers and knocked on the doors of our neighbors. I found out that my down-stairs neighbor heard Sophie howling and scratching at his window until 3am....

Help From Good People

Found Pets Home — Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:19:36 PM

My yard was recently broken into and my dog was nowhere to be found. Our 10 month old loves our dog, Quinn, and they would play together. Quinn was great with her. The next day she looked around and kept saying “dog dog”. She was looking for Quinn and didn’t even care about the other dog we have. It broke my heart. We were looking everywhere we could think of. Someone had taken Quinn and gave him to a person who lived in Richmond, 2 hours away from where we live. Luckily, they didn’t know he was chipped. She took him to Banfield, which is the same company we take him to here, and they found the chip. Because of the chip my daughter has hardly noticed he was even gone.

Long Way From Home

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 30, 2010 11:43:53 PM

I work at our local hospital where I feed and care for a colony of feral cats, all spayed/neutered and vaccinated. One day I saw a different cat eating at the food bowl and when I walked up to her, she rubbed on my leg, it was obvious she was someone’s pet. I thought she might find her way home but she was still there the next day. I put her in a carrier and took her to the local vet where they scanned her and as it turns out- she had a microchip. Her home was over 3 miles away so I think she must have come to work under someone’s car or back of truck. The owners were thrilled to have gotten her back which would never have happened if it were not for the microchip. She would have joined my feral colony and lived out her life only 3 miles from her home.

Thanks to HomeAgain!!!!

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 30, 2010 8:01:36 PM

Although Rocky was only gone a day, I know it would have been MUCH longer without HomeAgain. We live in a rural area with lots of woods and wildlife, which can be both good and bad. I was so worried because he is a small little guy, and so much could happen to him. Rocky was found quite a ways away from home, wet and cold from being in the rain all day. A wonderful lady found him and called the 888 number on his HomeAgain tag. She received our vet information and was able to call them and get our information. She brought him right to our house. I have never been so happy to see Rocky!

My 2 Labs 3 day adventure

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 30, 2010 9:17:33 AM

My dogs got out of our back yard early on a Tuesday morning (sometime between midnight and 5 am). My 2 daughters, wife, and I looked for more than 2 hours for them in the rain hoping they had stayed close to the house. We have coyotes around the house and hoped they had just chased them off and stayed close. We contacted HomeAgain and reported our dogs lost. Within 30 minutes there was a mass email sent out to all HomeAgain pet owners within the area. Long story short- a wonderful lady was out walking her dogs on Thursday morning and saw my 2 dogs coming towards her. She had just read my customized HomeAgain email on Wednesday afternoon and realized these may be the 2 dogs missing. She contacted HomeAgain who connected my wife and this wonderful lady. One of my dogs had been shot in the back, narrowly missing his spinal cord and femoral artery. The other dog had not a scratch on him. Thanks to HomeAgain my dogs are both still alive. Thank you so much HomeAgain for the awesome network that you have...

HomeAgain To the Rescue

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:46:43 PM

We lost our beloved dog 10 days ago. Someone took her to the Pasadena Humane Society last night and my wife got a call this afternoon from them that our dog, Pookie, was at the shelter. My kids are thrilled to have her back as are we. Thanks HomeAgain, and thanks to all the good people who care for these lost animals.

Holiday Tragedy Averted

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:32:37 PM

I had gone to meet my extended family for Thanksgiving and brought my 4 Maltese dogs along. We were in the midst of cooking and preparing for the big feast when the phone rang. My niece looked at me with big, surprised eyes and told the stranger on the phone that she would be right there. Seems one of our dogs, June, had slipped out and no one had noticed in the hullabaloo. A wonderful gentleman had picked her up from a busy street and found the HomeAgain tag. He called the number, they called me on my cell and June was back in my arms before I had really missed her. Being over 200 miles from home, I would have lost her forever if it weren't for the kindness of strangers and HomeAgain.

Happy Reunion

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:35:44 PM

My indoor cat Emelio, or “Em”, got out of the house while I had company. I tried to catch him but he found another cat friend and kept running from me. I decided he could just spend the night outside- not a good decision on my part. Two days after he went MIA I contacted HomeAgain on line and immediately began working on my lost pet poster. I am very impressed with how easy it was to produce and update this poster. I rode my bike around the neighborhood talking to people and posting flyers at each corner below the stop signs. Everyone told me he would be close but too afraid to come out of hiding. I did like HomeAgain told me to, and did not panic. I have to admit, the night time was the most difficult. I called HomeAgain on Sunday afternoon and was thoroughly impressed with the help I received. I did not know I had to call Pet First to set up the insurance policy or what the ID card was all about. Now I have all my pets registered and ID cards on the way. It will be nice to have a picture ID of t...

Found 20 Minutes After Reported Lost

Found Pets Home — Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:34:17 AM

Around 7:00 p.m. I realized my dog wasn't in the house, which is common since she has a doggie door and spends a lot of time outdoors. I went to look for her in the back-yard only to realize someone had left the gate open… my heart dropped. I spent the next hour searching my neighborhood. After it got dark, I went back home and logged into HomeAgain to report her missing. I didn't think it would work, but within 20 minutes I got a call from a shelter. Someone found her wandering in a busy intersection, picked her up and took her to the shelter. The shelter had a scanner, found the chip and contacted me immediately. Thanks to HomeAgain, my precious girl didn't even have to spend an hour in the shelter.

Fraidy Dog

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:28:03 PM

Lilli is very loving to us, but afraid of strangers. She escaped from the backyard when a strong gust of wind blew open an unlocked gate. We discovered her missing within 15 minutes, but were unable to find where she went. We thought she was hiding close, but could never seem to spot her. After a few days we thought maybe someone had managed to catch her and had decided to keep her. After three weeks, we got a call around 8 p.m. from a man who thought he had seen her at the local water treatment plant, about 2 miles away. We couldn't find a trace of her, but the man identified her from the HomeAgain Lost Pet Poster we had printed. Given her history of hiding, we went back the next morning at 4 a.m. and waited… Sure enough, she came wandering out, and came to the car when called for a treat. She seems to be in good condition after 3 weeks on her own. Amazing!

Lost In The Neighborhood

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:10:03 AM

When our cat went missing we were not sure if she would come back because we had just moved. We went to HomeAgain and reported her missing, printed out posters and put them up around the community. Two day later we got a call from HomeAgain with a woman down the road who had seen our Lost Pet Poster. When we went to the area she said she saw her around we called her name, but no luck. After an hour we started to walk home, as we were walking away we heard a meow and sure enough it was out kitty cat KIKI! She was a little startled, but in good health. Without the poster we would have never known where to look. But now KIKI's home safe and sound thanks to HomeAgain.

Answered Prayer!

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 26, 2010 9:09:00 PM

Our dog Brittany went missing on 4/23/2010. She can sometimes be a roamer, only this time she didn’t return. We are her 3rd owners and I never re-registered her tags. In fact she had been chipped, but her original owners never even registered her. We spent the weekend calling shelters and posting lost fliers, hopeful of a reunion. No luck! The next Monday morning, 4/26/2010, I spoke with a gentlemen at a shelter, who explained the importance of registering her. So I dug out her original paperwork and found the phone number along with her chip ID number and called Home Again. The gentleman on the phone made a temporary lost file and said I should get her registered online through the website and then make a lost report. And so I did. Much to my surprise, HomeAgain.com really was a cool website. I didn't realize that they would be sending out email alerts to everyone in our area. At 5:45 on 4/26/2010, the very same day I registered her, I got the call from Home Again. "I have someone on the ...

Good Posters, Good Neighbors

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 26, 2010 3:30:24 PM

Our cat, Anna, disappeared after a windy, stormy night. We were afraid something had been knocked over by the wind and spooked her or that she was trapped somewhere after trying to get out of the rain. Two days passed, and I was hoarse from calling her name all over the neighborhood. It wasn't until we put up our HomeAgain Lost Cat posters that things turned around. Our neighbor had found her and sent her to the animal shelter. We had our cat back before I was even done putting up the posters. To celebrate, Anna got tuna. I got piece of mind. Thank you HomeAgain!

Found My Lost Dog

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 26, 2010 10:17:28 AM

My dog was stolen from me about a year and a half ago. I went to every animal shelter and pound, put flyers up and all. I even went to gas stations and put the flyers in the stores. I waited and waited. Then one day my mom and I were up early one morning and my sister called. My sister asked “Do you have all the dogs?” and we said “Yes, why? Whats up?” My sister said the Walter M. Crowe animal shelter has called. My mom and I were puzzled. So we called them up, they said they had found my dog Zeus, from a year and a half ago. We jumped up and down, got in the car and went as fast as we could out there. When we got there and saw Zeus, he remembered who I was instantly, I was so happy. We took him to a groomer and she gave him a bath and he loved it. After we picked him up, we gave him a nice juicy hamburger. He is back home now, gaining all his weight back. Thank god for the HomeAgain microchip, and thank you again HomeAgain pet recovery service.

Reunited in Less Than An Hour!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:42:22 AM

I was very ill with the flu, but I had taken my daughter home from school to our house. One of my dogs, Smorz, unbeknownst to us, had managed to wander off. In less than an hour, a neighbor had recovered Smorz, phoned in to HomeAgain, and HomeAgain Recovery Service callers had phoned my work, cell, and parent's phones- so we were able to recover our dog, all in less than an hour! HomeAgain is Amazing! Thank you so much!

Lost My Dog On Sunday

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 23, 2010 1:40:22 PM

We opened our garage door, but we forget that our dog, Tini, was around. Without paying attention, we accidently let her get out. About 20 minutes later, we discovered that my Tini was gone. We ran around our area about 2 hours for searching my Tini, but no signs of her. We remember that Tini had a HomeAgain Microchip, so we went online and registered it. 2 days later Petsmartt called me to tell me that someone returned my Tini to their shop. I am so happy to have Tini back. Thanks a lot HomeAgain. Without HomeAgain, We would have lost Tini.

3 Years Apart

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:37:51 PM

Three years ago, I came home from a day out to find that my cat, Lady, had torn through a window screen and escaped. Many weeks and many posters, calls, online classified ads later, we thought Lady was gone forever. Today I received a call I never thought I would- it was HomeAgain, telling me Lady had been found! She had traveled almost 30 miles in 3 years. Lady looks a little worse for wear, but is happy to be home, and I'm happy to have her home!

Found My Dogs!

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:58:43 PM

Both of my dogs recently escaped out of our fenced yard- only one of the two was microchipped, and of course, neither was wearing a collar! We immediately called the local shelter to report them missing, posted signs, and talked to neighbors and co-workers who live nearby. Right at a week later, I received a phone call from the Animal Services to say they had Charlie, and had identified her by her microchip! I didn't even think to ask if my other dog was there, since I had reported them missing together, and they hadn't said anything about it... I just remained hopeful that when I arrived to pick her up, that maybe her "sister" would be with her. When I arrived at the shelter, the first thing I did after identifying myself, and who I was there for, was to pull out the picture of my other dog, and they said YES!!! Both dogs were there. Both dogs are now safe and sound, and microchipped, at home. I just wonder how much longer it might have taken for the shelter to call me if I hadn't had one of the...

Missing For Only Minutes

Found Pets Home — Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:14:32 AM

I just wanted to share how happy I am with HomeAgain... My children left the front door open and both dogs made a break for it! In less than 10 minutes, they had been found, reported, and I was called by HomeAgain. What a wonderful service you have! Thank you so much!!

Reunited After 6 Years

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 17, 2010 5:20:06 PM

In March 2004 after moving to a new home our beautiful cat, Chopper, went missing. We searched tirelessly for him for months, putting up posters, visits to the animal shelter every three days, calling pet hospitals, etc. Our family was devastated to say the least! We never stopped thinking about Chopper and wondering where our beloved pet may be. On April 14th 2010 I received the call of a lifetime, a wonderful woman working with a pet organization called "PAW" had found Chopper, and brought him to a local vet's office! They scanned Chopper and discovered his microchip! We are so grateful to PAW, the vet's office and HomeAgain for making this reunion possible and making our family whole again after 6 very long years!

Sebastian Returns

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 16, 2010 4:57:36 PM

Sebastian is an indoor cat that has never been outside until he got out of a front door that was blown open while I was at work on 3/31. I live in a farming community and to most people he would just be a lost barn cat, and a lot of people thought he may never return. I frantically looked for him every day, but to no avail. I called the HomeAgain Pet Service to report him missing and upgraded my service so I could produce my "Lost Pet" posters which I distributed all over town and at the local vet clinics and shelters. Because of your service and the availability of making the posters to distribute, someone called me directly after seeing him walking next to a busy road. I searched the area where I was told he was seen and found him laying in the weeds, trying to keep warm. Sebastian had been gone for 11 days without food and water and was found about 2 miles from our home. I feel that because of the posters, someone could identify him and care enough to know what he means to me. He is back in hi...

Peggy Goes Home

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 16, 2010 10:12:38 AM

During Christmas 2009, I found a little dog in front of my house while walking my own dog. She came towards my dog for a sniff. I rescue strays all of the time, and took her by the collar to my house (after putting my dog safely in the house). After some investigation, I discovered my neighbors had left for Arkansas for five days without taking the dog. My usual routine is to take strays to the Vet to have them checked for any conditions that may be passed to my dog and then try to locate the owner. Lo and behold! She had a chip! She had been lost in Mississippi. HomeAgain was crucial in her return; I was amazed at the tremendous work these people do. "Peggy" had been missing for four years. The original owners' son was so happy to have her returned, he drove from Mississippi the next day. This story is priceless. By the way, I have had my dog chipped. Thank you, Home Again.

Safe At Home

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:48:00 PM

We just had our septic lines replaced in our backyard - it was all muddy due to the rain soon after, and we were throwing grass and hay down so we could get some grass back again. It was a week before our vacation. We were covered in mud - a real mess. With all the commotion, we failed to lock the backyard gate. My other dog, DJ, a mixed breed beagle, knows how to get out if the gate is not secure. At the time my boxer, Charlie, was only a year old. We let them out to do their business just before bed, but when my son called for them they did not come. It was then that our hearts sank to our stomach’s as we realized the gates were not secured well. I immediately contacted HomeAgain (both dogs are chipped), all my neighbors and friends in surrounding subdivisions, and the local vets and shelters. Three agonizing days later I get a call from a woman who said she found DJ, but Charlie was not with her. Extremely worried about Charlie, I called the local shelter but they said he was not there. ...

A Happy Reunion

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:36:40 PM

My 4-year old black lab escaped from his kennel, and dug out of our backyard. It wasn't until the evening when I realized that he had gotten out. He was there when I got home, and when I went out to change his water, he was gone. Since it was already getting dark, I didn't have much daylight left to look for him. To make it worse he found a way to remove his collar so he had no ID tags to help identify him. To make a long story short, he was gone for 2 and a half days, which meant I had 2 sleepless nights. Finally, I got a phone call from a vet's office that my dog had been found a few miles from my home by a good Samaritan who took him into the vet. With the help of his HomeAgain microchip, the vet was able to contact me and let me know that my pet had been found and turned in safely. Thanks again HomeAgain, I appreciate all that you do.

Lost At Grandma's

Found Pets Home — Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:41:52 PM

One afternoon, my family drove to pick up my parents at their house to head to a family dinner at my mother-in-law’s. While at my parents, Coco, our 2 year old shih tzu jumped out of the car to sniff around. After dinner, and packing our 4 kids and 4 adults in the van, we drove off. Approximately 15 minutes later we realized Coco wasn't in the car. We immediately turned around and spent over an hour looking for Coco. She was nowhere to be found. Sadly, we headed to my mother-in-laws hoping she would find her way back to my parents, where she visits frequently. About an hour later, my husband received a phone call stating that Coco had been found by a woman right around the corner from my parents. The woman called HomeAgain and gave Coco's ID number. HomeAgain gave us the woman’s number and we made arrangements to pick Coco up. While there, she was treated like a queen. Thank god for HomeAgain or we may never have seen Coco again. Thank you HomeAgain!!!!!!!!

Three Degrees of Separation

Found Pets Home — Monday, April 12, 2010 10:12:43 PM

We were horrified to realize that our beloved Mikko had recently gone missing. We believe that someone opened the gate of our fenced-in backyard while the family went out for an ice cream. I assumed the dog was inside, but when we realized he wasn't, it was clear he was already gone for a couple of hours. We put out an alert with HomeAgain this morning and this evening around 9 pm we received a call that Mikko was safe and sound! Turns out that the person who saved him from heavy traffic had a co-worker who was updating her pet's information on the HomeAgain site, and received the alert which she passed on to the person who rescued our dog. The Pet Rescuer network was enough to return Mikko to us. Thanks to HomeAgain (and locks that we will put on the gates), we hope to have Mikko with us several more years to come.

Family Reunited

Found Pets Home — Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:31:01 PM

When I found that the gas company had left the gate open when reading the meter and my 13 year old dog had gotten out- I was devastated. I've had her since she was 5 months old and she's a part of my past that helps to keep the memory of my parents alive. As soon as I realized she was gone I searched the neighborhood as well as placed flyers on every stop sign in a quarter mile around my house. I called animal shelters, vet offices and talked to neighbors. I had given her a bath and she was still drying off in the back yard without her collar when she escaped, so without the chip it may have taken longer to find her. Getting the call she was found allowed me to sleep again. The chip is one of the best things I could have done for her. Thank You.

Wishing Upon A Star Really Works

Found Pets Home — Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:45:24 PM

Lola is 2.5 month old Rottweiler who recently went missing. The next day I paid an agency almost $100.00 to help search for her. All they sent me was a poster and a bill. For 3 agonizing days I put this flyer up, checked vets, shelters, and dog shops, but to no avail. I even put an ad out in the local paper. What made things worse, is that grocery store chains and stores will not allow you to advertise a lost beloved family member. I was at my wits end, and running out of options! I figured I needed another plan. I had to do more. Then someone mentioned HomeAgain. I looked at the very low price and thought “you get what you pay for”, but I didn’t have many options left. $100.00 dollars got me nowhere; let’s see if they will step up to the plate for $16.99. On the 4th day I called HomeAgain and Registered Lola, gave them all the information and hung up the phone. Feeling deep in my heart that HomeAgain really cares, I now have a really good chance on finding her. Higher powers were with me that day...

Loki Found by Microchip!

Found Pets Home — Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:01:54 AM

Loki was missing for 8 months. He was hit by a car in a city 20 miles away and we have no idea how he get there. A Good Samaritan took him to a vet, who scanned him and called us. We were amazed to get him back after so much time. He still had his collar but the tag had long since fallen off and only the microchip could have brought him home. He lost an eye due to the accident but has been back home for 3 months now and couldn't be happier.

Mickey is HomeAgain

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:32:27 PM

My indoor cat Mickey escaped from last September when a repair man came to my house. After months of looking and putting up posters I finally and sadly gave up. Six months later, in March, I got a call from a local veterinarian. Someone had found MIckey a few months earlier, brought him to the vet, and the veterinarian scanned him. My name and contact info came up and he was home a few hours later! I am so thrilled to have my Mickey back again, and that even though he was indoors only, I had him chipped. I am also thankful that this hospital scanned him. I feel so lucky this story has a happy ending!

Hoover Came HomeAgain Alive!

Found Pets Home — Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:20:11 PM

Hoover sneaked past my husband when he went into the garage on Thursday night, and escaped when I opened the garage door from my car. He had never been outside in about 6 years, except in a carrier. I contacted HomeAgain, and made up fliers for my husband, Ed, to distribute, since I was leaving for an out of town meeting the next morning. Hoover eventually came back, but charged off again. At 10 p.m. he came back and was coming up to Ed, but was blocked by our dog, who Ed was taking out for her walk. She blocked Hoover's way, confused, and in the melee, Hoover took off again. Ed walked the dog and saw Hoover in the yard when he got home. But Hoover ran off again! Ed took the dog in the house and got a bowl of dry food and went out to see if he could find Hoover. Spotting Hoovie next door, Ed waved the food dish and baby-talked the cat, who came up and started to eat. Ed then picked him up and brought him home, unscathed. He must have smelled different, from being outside for about 28 hours, becaus...

Good Neighbors

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 09, 2010 11:29:24 PM

Lilly is an indoor cat. Because the weather has been so nice lately I had a window open for her. She must have spotted something outside because she popped the window screen out. I didn't know this right away but my heart sank when I saw the screen-less window. I posted to HomeAgain and created flyers. It was late in the day and getting dark but I went around to all of my neighborhood houses and left flyers. At a little past 10 in the evening one of my neighbors called to say she came home, saw my flyer in her door and showed it to her husband. He said he'd seen my lost kitty in their garage. She was calling to tell me they would leave their garage door open in case she came back and they'd keep an eye out for her. I decided to go out and take another look around since the phone call made me feel better. There she was! Right outsdie my back door and happy as a lark. I've learned a valuable lesson -- no more open windows, even if the screens seem tight fitting. I recommend using flyers wit...

Happy Ending

Found Pets Home — Friday, April 09, 2010 4:50:37 PM

On March 31, I came home from work and let Beasley out of his crate. My back door was not shut tightly and he trotted out the back door and took off. I adopted him from a Rescue about 2 and 1/2 months ago. He spent his early years in a puppy mill, so he is very anxious and shy. I tried to get him to come to me, but he just kept running. I reported him missing within 1/2 hour of his running away. Within 1 hour, I received a call from a local animal hospital where he had been taken by a Good Samaritan. He had been hit by a car in a parking lot and after 5 people patiently tried to corner him, he was caught and taken to the animal hospital for treatment. The good part is that because of microchip, I received a call from the animal hospital within an hour of when he went missing. He is home and doing well but still has a slight limp. I want to thank the kind people at HomeAgain for their help and wonderful service. I have told so many people about your service since we had this happen to us!