MURRAY, Utah — It was late Sunday evening when Andrea Bangerter and Gabby Davis got here home to search out their canine Lola lacking.
“She’s a really sweet yellow lab,” stated Davis. “We just searched everywhere. We couldn’t find her, so immediately the panic sets in.”
Lola had been carrying a shawl and a cone, which the household discovered discarded on the sidewalk. The mom and daughter checked their doorbell footage and will see a girl walking westbound with Lola round 4 p.m.
“The lady that had Lola, you know, Lola spent some time with her, and then the lady went to the bus stop and handed her off to a stranger, another stranger, and said ‘I took her cone off’ and ‘If you could find a place for her and find where she belongs,’” stated Bangerter.
The subsequent day, Bangerter obtained a name from the Petco in Draper: they’d Lola.
“Without the microchip, I don’t know that we would have been able to get her back as quickly,” stated Davis.
Even after posting on a number of social media platforms, placing up fliers and looking out on foot with neighbors, finally, the speedy reunion was due to Lola having a microchip.
“It really was a Christmas miracle for us to be able to get her back,” stated Bangerter. “We were feeling pretty hopeless and helpless.”
With the vacations approaching, it’s a good suggestion to get your canine microchipped in the event that they aren’t already, stated Dr. Corinna Camfield, the medical director at Hillside Veterinary Hospital.
“I can’t tell you the number of dogs that come in that are lost and, you know, their collar fell off so they don’t have tags or anything like that, and we can reunite them with their family, and really quickly, without them having to go to the shelter,” she stated. “New Year’s Day and July 5th and the day after Pioneer Day is usually the day where the most dogs get reported missing because they just get so scared. They bolt out the door, even dogs who haven’t had an issue before, and so having them microchipped means that they can get back to you.”
