Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

Scooby-Doo might be best known for driving around in the 'Mystery Machine' along with four other 'meddling kids', but August 2007 saw Scooby the Staffordshire Bull Terrier go missing from his home in Manchester after shrewdly finding a hole in the garden fence.

Owner Denise Braithwaite was devastated when her beloved pet went missing. "We searched far and wide for Scooby," Denise explained, "even reporting him missing at our local vets, dogs home and police station. After putting posters up in the local shops and asking all our neighbours to keep an eye out for him, we had to accept that Scooby might not return home. My three children all adore Scooby; it was heartbreaking having to tell them he was not coming home."

Lucky for Denise, this is one Scooby adventure that didn't end disastrously! Denise had realised the importance of microchipping and had ensured all her pets were microchipped and registered with Petlog, the UK's largest reunification database.

Denise continued, "A week before Easter 2008 we had a knock on the door from a lady who claimed to have Scooby! Unfortunately Scooby had been taken in by a man who had mistreated him and kept him locked up. The lady had taken Scooby to a rehoming kennel in Macclesfield where he was scanned for his Bayer Tracer microchip and found that he had been reported missing with Petlog.

"Waiting for Scooby to be returned to us felt like forever, even though he was back with us within the day! Seeing the dog we thought we would never see again come bounding out of the car was amazing. He jumped all over us; it was such an emotional time for everyone.

"It's as if Scooby has never been away! We are so pleased we decided to have our dogs microchipped with Petlog. National Microchipping Month is coming up in June and we really hope other families go along to one of the microchipping clinics around the country and get their pet chipped, or their story might not end as happily as ours did."

Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club spokesperson added, "National Microchipping Month aims to encourage vets from around the country to hold microchipping clinics in their surgeries. Scooby's story highlights just how important microchipping is and we hope the public will go along to one of the many vet chipping clinics posted on the Kennel Club website."

To find a veterinary surgery which is holding an event near you, please visit www.nationalmicrochippingmonth.org.uk. To find out more about Petlog please visit www.petlog.org.uk.

To submit your own re-unification story, please e-mail us at petlogadmin@thekennelclub.org.uk

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