[rentfrog]

He was actually a Silky.
He had come from a puppy mill. He was used as a breeder. He had not had a lot of socialization, and was a bit timid still.
His owner had recently adopted him from a rescue and had not had a chance to get his chip registered. He had gotten a bath, and then somehow gotten out of her yard on Thur. night. He had walked several miles by the time I found him on Fri. morning. His owner actually found him through the ad I posted in the paper.
Here is another interesting fact though. Avid microchips can NOT be read by any other scanner, the other scanners will not even register that there is a chip. We just happened to feel this one on his neck. Some vets say that the avids will show up as an avid chip but will not give the number, but this one was scanned twice with other scanners with NO response whatsoever, then the avid was used, and it popped right up.
Preston is going in for neuter and puppy teeth removal on Mon. and I am still debating the whole microchip thing due to this. I don't know if someone else picked him up if they would have bothered with scanning, so I wonder how useful of a tool it is. Not saying there is no one else out there like me, who is more worried about returning the dog to the right family, but just saying if it were someone less scroupulous, why would someone bother?
Anyway, Little Mister as I called him, Monty as his real family called him, and Montana as registered, did return to his rightful home.