Bay Area family to be reunited with stolen dog after 3 years

[joeybee12]

OAKLAND -- For three years the family wondered. They worried. They hoped.

Then this week, the phone call came.

Their stolen dog, Hana, a Shiba Inu, had turned up on the streets of Oakland and was waiting for them at the city's animal shelter on 29th Avenue.

A microchip planted inside the small Shiba Inu had helped Hana find its way home.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27325998/bay-area-family-be-reunited-stolen-dog-after

[shenmue]

1. Who's a good girl? Yes you is! Yes you is!

Somebody's getting lots of hugs and treats.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. How wonderful for all of them.

The article doesn't give her age, but she looks like she is an older dog.

[Boreal]

3. I would be so grateful

to get my baby back! It always me great angst about chipping because microchips have associated with cancer so I have not chipped my dogs.

[Skittles]

4. everyone, microchip your pets!

[displacedtexan]

5. A dog was stolen in my SF neighborhood this week. Scooped up and put in a van...

While the owner was getting the leash at the door to her house.

That dog is chipped.

My Westies are chipped, and I'm considering GPS chips, too.

[rufus dog]

6. That blows!

what kind of bastard steal a dog. The emotional pain to the family is over the top. What kind of fee could you get for a dog?