That dogs awesome!! Can only imagine what it went through on its own for so long!! Good story..

This is a miracle.

How did get so far away from home . . .?

By vehicle, I presume…

I have always wondered …does anyone know? All my dogs are chipped by the SPCA or HOPE FOUNDATION when getting fixed when I adopted them but I never registered that info anywhere and now I can’t find it. I do have my dogs licensed with the city for regular tags but they don’t wear them as they are house dogs. If my dogs were ever lost would they still be able to track me down? Somewhere I heard you have to pay yearly fees to keep the chip numbers registered somehow. But hearing this story I am thinking once chipped they can locate the owner forever. Anyone have inside info?

She will remember them till the day she dies dogs do not forget their first family if they were kind to them, would any of US forget a loved family member if we were accidently seperated for years?

CONTACT THE PLACE THAT CHIPPED THEM AND THEY WILL HAVE A RECORD AND # TO PROVIDE YOU.

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Dogs are horrible drivers though, what an amazing distance.

She looks tired, bless her heart

Shauna,
I work at a vet clinic that uses the Home Again company for microchips. Once a pet is microchiped and in the Home Again registry, it will always be in the system and traceable to the owner who registered the pet. The monthly fee is for the added benefits of medical insurance should your pet become ill or suffer an injury while lost and it may even help cover the cost of getting them home. You can always have your pet scanned for the number at your vet or shelter and you can then have it registered with Home Again, they will recognize other chips. I believe the yearly cost for full membership is only $15. Hope that helps!

Check with HomeAgain.com. If they’re chipped by them, you don’t have to pay a yearly fee to keep them registered, but the fee is for extra services such as informing local vets, lost pet alerts, and assistance in getting your found pet back to you.

Once your pet is in their database it’s always there whether you pay the yearly fee or not.

“A Dog is very religious and its religion is free from superstition. The god it believes in is its master, and that god actually exists, and is actually concerned about its welfare, and actually rewards it and punishes it, on a plan comprehensible to Dogs and meeting with their approval, for its virtues and vices. Dogs need not waste any time over insoluble theological problems. Their god is plainly visible and wholly understandable — they have no need of clergy to guess for them, mislead them and get them into trouble.” ~ H.L. Mencken

http://911essentials.com

“A Virginia family may have their long-lost dog back in time for the holidays after a terrier found nearly 3,000 miles away in rural Yuba County was traced back to them…”

“She was very thirsty and very hungry when I found her…”

Thirsty and hungry? After 3,000 miles and eight years?

That’s some travel diet…

I cant wait till the govt starts chipping us humans….its gonna be so convenient

you wont need to carry an ID or money or anything. imagine how free we will all be. Just like the founders intended!

Have your vet scan the dogs. The scan should detect the chip and its ID number. You should then be able to use that ID to trace who chipped them for you, get them to verify they ARE yours, and then enroll your information in the database. There is NO fee for maintaining the database AFTER your initial “registration” as part of the chipping process.

Do note that there are TWO different frequencies used by different manufacturers of these chips – 125 kHz and 134.2 kHz. Scanners for the 125 kHz chips are widely used in the US, but the 134.2 kHz scanners are less widely available. Vets currently tend to implant the 134.2 kHz chips unless their customers specifically ask for the other, since their cost-per-chip is lower. However, if your pet has a 134.2 kHz, gets lost, and is scanned with a 125 kHz scanner, the chip MAY not be read. Of course, in the early days of microchip implantation, even the currently-common 125 kHz scanners were not widely distributed, and the 134.2 kHz scanners SHOULD proliferate as the number of animals chipped with that type increase.

Also remember to update the database with your latest contact information when you move. If it has the information from 6 years ago when you got your pets chipped, and you have moved 5 times since then…

Finally, these chips can be used on MORE than just cats and dogs. While shelters, Law Enforcement, and animal control do not normally scan for them in goats, horses, and such, if one of yours goes missing, you can notify the authorities that it IS chipped, tell them the frequency, and give them positive proof the animal DOES belong to you when it is found.

At least the dog had a license.

My guess is picked up by a hunter.

you are right. Petunia will remember them and be happy beyond words. It’s going to be a great Christmas for Petunia and family! So glad they can afford to fly her home.

Chasing a dream.

Somebody probably stole it. People do that, even when there are so many dogs and cats living in shelters that need a home. People are sick.

Sorry, their God is the same as ours. And God does nothing by chance. It wasn’t an accident that when Christ was born he was surrounded by animals. The Lord God made us all.

Can I chip my girlfriend ?
In case she drops me and runs away

Paarl of Rhodesia

can i have your dog?

i saw that dog a few years ago on hwy 50 east of Bedford Indiana she was moving right along westward, as in going somewhere, on my return trip it was laying under a tree along the road resting. the next day i saw it standing looking a the bridge across white river. i wondered where it was going, now i know. glad she made it

It will happen. Have to doubt about it. We are on the path to destruction now.

People who believe in god are delusional. People who believe god talks to them are mentally ill. People who act on the messages from their unseen friend are psychotic and may be dangerous.

It’s also no coincidence that when Christ died he was again surrounded by animals… Although this had to be, or else we wouldn’t be speaking of him 2000 years later…

Back on topic: good on ya Petunia! May you enjoy the remainder of your years undisturbed and together with your family.

“And God does nothing by chance.” … So your god knows that all those kids at Penn state were going to be molested and god knows all those raped, murdered and abused before the fact. Sounds as if your god is a degenerate that you must be too.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
Epicurus

Hunters dont use pit bulls.

I’m a hunter and I’ve found a lot of lost dogs but never hauled a useless (for hunting) dog 3000 miles and dumped her.
You have no evidence and fewer good ideas.

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Does anyone think that maybe the dog doesn’t want to go home? Not that she was mistreated or anything, but maybe she just wanted to wander and see what was going on outside of her own yard.

@ gloves off: No, GOD isn’t cruel or vindictive. We are all allowed to make choices in how we act or what we do to people, but we WILL be held accountable for it later. IF GOD stopped the cruelty, true freedom of choice wouldn’t be possible. The worst thing that can happen to you if someone does something terrible to u is it kills you. IF you die you just return to Heaven to GOD. You are trying to hold GOD responsible for the decisions of man. Doesn’t work that way. Hold man responsible.

. . . it’s Bush’s fault.

Say what you will about California – Everybody wants to live here.

(At least until Gov. Moonbeam Brown raises the sales tax – AGAIN.)

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney

We was in a crump-’ ole “im and me;
Fiightin’ wiv our bayonets was we;
Fightin’ ard as’ ell we was,
Fightin fierce as fire because
It was ‘im or me as must be downed:
‘E was twice as big as me;
I was ‘arf the weight of ‘e:
We was like a terryer and a ‘ound
Thank Gawd we still is er this mawin’.

NnN – actually I believe a person that does not believe is God is a bit crazy. All just one big grand accident. Sure it is! I will pray for you even though that will make you mad.

Thats right Jallebi many of us seniors get mighty forgetful at times and forget where we are or where we are going lol or how to get back to where ever lol, they could install some kind of boxed contraption on every other block all ya would need to do is place the chipped part your hide(arm would be handy)against the box and all your info would be on the screen.

We love our dog Reiley! We would be heart broken if we lost him!!

Coming from Andy Rooney, that makes perfect sense. He was notorious for projecting his curmudgeon self on humanity. Sad, really.

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This is not a terrier, this is a pit bull. They should all be illegal.

Don’t be a damn moron.

People that don’t know how to raise a dog, or any animal, should be illegal!

Theft of purebred dogs is not uncommon. This dog was probably stolen and resold several times. Very luck she wasn’t sold to an experimental lab, which is quite common in some areas. I had a purebread Golden Retriever stolen out of a vet’s kennel in 1973. Broke my heart. Never did get her back.

Today, with dopers, thugs, transients and others a larger portion of our culture, this sort of thing is more common. Congratulations on getting the dog back. Kudos for using the chip..

tippie, before you comment, you should read what was written.

“American Staffordshire terrier and pit bull mix, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department.”

It is PART American Staffordshire Terrier – look that up!

Yes, KUDOS for using the chip and being responsible. I am so happy your dog is coming home to you. Cute name “Petunia”

The only way my neighbors pit would hurt you is if he rolled over on your toes wanting a tummy rub

A pit bull IS a terrier

A pit bull IS a terrier, I am rolling, HAHAHA

I know your right, but the fact that you have to tell people, who just mouth off,

HHHHAAAAAA
Priceless, simply priceless

Good job Eddie, you just replied exactly how no dog would ever reply, because dogs are nice.

Reading the comments here, and on on other sites, it is amazing the number of people who do not know the correct usgae of the words; there, they’re and their.

Staffordshire / pit bull….tomato / tomato. A staffordshire is nothing but a pit bull that is LOST and they want the neighbors to help find him. The flyers on telephone polls never ask for help finding a pit. BUT….when they’re selling puppies in the Walmart parking lot out of the back of a van….THEN they’re pit bulls. PUREBRED pit bulls!

Yu should be illegal, you probably are. Don’t blame the breed, blame the owner!!!!!

A pitbull is a terrier! They were originally a cross between a bulldog and a terrier. I think retrievers should be illegal. They account for more bites in the USA than do pit bulls.

The Pit Bull Terrier acutally has Staffordshire terrier in it’s bloodline – Of course, your ignorance on breeds – especially these breeds is obvousl. You haven’t had any experiences with pitts that warrent this (that’s obvious too) Just another regurgitator without knowledge. You must be lib.

Pits can be docile for years and then maul the owner,or other family members close neighbor,It has nothing to do with training thy were bred to be vicious and this trait is hard to get out.

Job job Kuz Ed for prooving Mr. Roony’s point

I’ll wager a Californian, visiting in Virginia for the Thanksgiving holiday, took the dog back with him…..and then lost or let him go 8 years later. Could a dog really walk across country, stay fed, etc., without at least one person helping the dog?

Anyway….GREAT conclusion for the dog and family.

This is way too weird. I have 17 dogs, Really!, They won’t venture a mile from the house, much less 3,000. It seems impossible but alls well that ends well.

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oh, so true, so true : (

Hey, Ive got 3 pit bulls, educated with a great sense of humor Leave cousin Eddie alone, he is right. ANDY ROONEY was to journalism as high a ranking reporter as say Geraldo Rivera. Maury Povich, and Al Sharpton. Ass clown best sums it up when it comes to Andy Rooney.

I think using the moniker “tippietoez” says a mouthful. And I’m quite sure I know what its full of. Are those nut prints on your chin?

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URFUL:

“A Staffordshire is nothing but a pit bull that is LOST and the owners want the neighbors to help find him. BUT….when they’re selling puppies in the Walmart parking lot out of the back of a van….THEN they’re pit bulls. PUREBRED pit bulls!”

Your explanation is SO PERFECT that it needed to be repeated! A comparison is that IF my little wire fox terrier decided to bite someone (never has; this is just by way of explanation), the person being attacked could force his mouth open with little actual damage done (because my dog can’t “grind” while clenching); Staffordshires have been bred so that their mouths are like bear-traps; literally impossible to open so terrible damage can be inflicted.

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