Feel good story of the week

Fourteen months after taking off to chase a cat, a microchipped dog has been reunited with his owner.

The story, from the Mercury News in San Jose, Calif., can been seen here.

Owner Cheryl Chaudhary's dog Sai took off after a cat in Watsonville and looked back.

The Jack Russell had stayed in the area, but Chaudhary had moved away.

Because of the microchip, Chaudhary said she never gave up hope. And that's the only reason she got Sai back, said [Santa Cruz County Animal Services Tricia] Geisreiter. Sai had a collar but no tags when he was found. The device costs $15 including a registration fee and is easily injected under the skin with a syringe.

Speaks well for microchipping, but also about the importance of having tags on the collar.

While living in Shekomeko, I was walking to the mailbox and found a woman putting a missing dog flier in it. The dog had gotten out of the fenced in yard by accident and was lost.

I asked her if the dog had tags on it, and she said no. "He never gets out," the woman said.

Guess he did.