[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Why one should get their dog micro-chipped
- From: diwri@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:00:28 +0000
Really a more accurate subject title would've been "why one should not get a
Labradork".
;-) Not that there's anything wrong with them.....
I don't know which is worse... the overly friendly dog that doesn't recognize
it's own people or people who can't recognize their own dog. I mean, how long
were they on vacation????
Diane
Oregon man thinks his black Labrador is an impostor
Tue Apr 15, 8:04 PM ET
Ken Griggs likes his new dog, but he preferred the old one. Then again, it
might be the same dog. In a possible case of
mistaken identity, Griggs said the black Labrador named Callie that he left at
a
Dundee kennel before spring break was not the same dog he picked up a week
later.
"It's a sweet dog," Griggs said of the impostor living at his Lake Oswego
house.
"It's tough because now we've had the dog for 10-plus days, and the kids,
especially the younger ones, start to get attached to the dog. I like it, but I
want mine."
Allison Best, owner of the Tail Wag-Inn boarding kennel, said Griggs has the
right dog. But Callie's vet examined the dog Griggs brought home and found
evidence that it's not Callie.
"We know it's not Callie," veterinarian Andrea Frost told The Oregonian
newspaper.
Griggs said he immediately noticed differences in the dog he picked up from the
kennel. The family cat ? normally friends with Callie ? hissed at the dog.
Callie would heel; this dog did not.
Griggs returned the dog to the kennel and Best examined whether Callie might
have gotten mixed-up with any of the other black Labradors
staying there that week.
Owners of the seven other black Labs all said they had the right dog.
However, the owner of Dixie, a dog Callie shared a kennel with, said her dog
had
undergone a "personality change," Best said. But after three or four
conversations that day, the owner maintained she had the right dog.
Still, Best arranged for the owners and their dogs to meet March 31 for a
possible exchange. The woman called saying she was late, Best said.
Meanwhile, Griggs had arrived with his family. A black Lab got excited when the
Griggses approached, the kids declared it was Callie, and into the car the dog
went.
It was the same dog the Griggs had just returned.
"It's uncanny how much it looks like my dog," Griggs said. "I'm sure it was
happy to see us and recognized us from the day before and mistook us."
But still unsure, Griggs took the dog to his vet.
Callie had once surgery to her left elbow; this dog showed no trauma. Callie
also had steel sutures after being spayed; this dog had none
that showed up on the X-ray. The dog also seemed to have had a rapid weight
loss.
Griggs has hired a lawyer, but Best says the case is closed.
"Mr. Griggs kind of lost his credibility with me the second time he came into
the kennel with his family and reclaimed the same dog," she said. "If he can't
recognize his dog, I don't feel I can be any help."
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
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