you may go home again !

You did n’t have to get up withCharles Schultzto get it on that losing a family pet can be a essence - rending situation . The dubiousness as to where your furry booster live on or how they ’re being treated can be overwhelming .

gratefully , there ’s a dependable and easy way to help greatly increase the odds of being reunited with your missing pets : microchipping . While it ’s not on the nose a new technology , microchipping has become safe , easier and more reliable over the years and is absolutely one of the first things that every dog ( and cat ! ) possessor should do for their fuzzy companions .

Whether they scarper off through an undefendable gate , get lost on a camping trip with the family , or are filch from a legitimate owner ’s back thou , dozens of microchipped dogs and cats are obtain and returned to their owners every year : some after travelingconsiderable aloofness , others afterextended periods of metre , and still others — like our story today — after both !

Aranza Delgado ’s poodle Puppies ( pronounce " Poopies " from a scene inNacho Libre ) was stolen four years ago and she had given up promise of seeing him again . Until , that is , she receive a call fromPeewee ’s Pet Adoption World & Sanctuarylast week .

puppy was found wandering a street quoin in downtown Corpus Christi , Texas , and was picked up by a passer and lease to Peewee ’s , where the tax shelter scan the 10 - year - oldpoodleand found his microchip . It was only when the tax shelter call Delgado to tell her they had her weenie that they realized Delgado did n’t live in Corpus Christi . She did n’t even live in Texas : puppy had made it there all the way from Albuquerque , N.M. !

The shelter gave pup a checkup , do by him for heartworms , and is helping arrange transportation for the pup to be reunify with his folk , some 870 miles away from the Texas coast .

Since he ’s been gone , Delgado has had a new baby for Puppies to meet , but she ’s excited and proud of to have her family favourite return to her after so many class and so many mile , all thanks to the good piece of work of an brute shelter , and the security measures of a microchipped favorite .

" You recede faith in mankind by someone steal your dog — but then it ’s like restored when all these masses are so willing to serve bring him back to the right piazza and that ’s just amazing , " Delgado toldKRIS 6 Newsin Corpus Christi .

For their part , the kinfolk at Peewee ’s are glad they can be part of a happy termination .

" If I can get a dog back to his family , " Volunteer Ernie Cochran told KRIS 6 , " it ’s a wondrous thing . "