Fatty, English Staffy

Now let's get this straight . . . the dog got out of the yard, took up residence with a not too distant neighbor, basically, that I guess never walked her or made an attempt to microchip her or have her scanned for a microchip, but they did take her when they went on vacation, and lost her there. OK, just checking, I think that's what happened.


Missing dog recovered and returned... after eight years
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

An English staffy by the name of Fatty has been recovered after running away from home… eight years ago.
Fatty turned up at a pound in Yamba on the NSW far north coast, some 670 kilometres away from her home in Blacktown, Sydney.

Clarence Valley ranger Jon Hallam, who called owner John Jahshan after checking the dog’s microchip, says he had a hard time convincing him the story was true.

“He was absolutely gobsmacked,” Mr Hallam told the Blacktown Advocate.

“This is pretty much one out of the box. Eight years is a long time for the dog to go missing, and for the dog to not ever be checked in that eight years for the microchip… is pretty unusual as well.”

A two-year-old Fatty wandered off from Mr Jahshan’s backyard in 2001, before setting up residence at a nearby home.

But when that family was holidaying in Yamba, Fatty decided it was once again time to go walkabout.

Mr Jahshan, a truckdriver, said he had long ago abandoned hope of finding his pudgy companion.

“I went to the local vet at the time, looked at the shopping centres and whatever, went to the local pound for six, seven months; a couple of times a week [I] popped my head in to see if she was there.

“Then eight years later, she shows up.

“She looks great. She’s the same, (but) she’s put on more weight.”


Source: http://www.livenews.com.au/news/missing-dog-recovered-and-returned-after-eight-years/2009/6/30/211528