The Case of the Caged Cockers by B R Snow

Author:B R Snow [Snow, B R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942691075
Published: 2016-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The microchip used to help identify lost dogs is about the size of a grain of rice and is implanted under the skin between the shoulder blades via a quick injection. Some people think the chips work like a Global Positioning System where the animal can be tracked, but GPS requires a battery and, therefore, the two systems are very different. The microchips that are implanted in dogs have one function; storing a unique number used to identify the pet’s owner.

When a lost dog is found, a scanner can be moved over the skin and, if a chip exists, the scanner reads the microchip’s unique ID number. Once that number is identified, either an online search or a call, placed to the company that maintains the registry database, will obtain the owner’s contact information.

We have one of the scanners and use it all time. We also implant the chips often and are very familiar with the enrollment process. The enrollment form includes a lot of information. In addition to the chip ID, the form included the owner’s contact information, a description and name of the dog, and other information such as the name of the dog’s vet and an emergency contact person.

All of that information would be very helpful to us. We just had one little problem. We didn’t know any of the ID numbers of the four dogs. Without that, it was impossible for us to conduct our own search.

This was the problem we were trying to solve over pizza, salad, and wine.

Josie reached for another slice of pepperoni and mushroom. I decided to stick with the onion and sausage. Having learned the hard way about getting in our way when we were eating, Chef Claire waited patiently until we finished refilling our plates, then served herself.

“It’s pretty good pizza,” she said.

“Yeah,” Josie said. “But nothing like you’re going to be serving at the new restaurant.”

“No, it’s not,” Chef Claire said.

She stated it a simple statement of fact, delivered in a no-nonsense manner devoid of ego. It was one thing to be really good at your craft; it was something else altogether to let your work speak for itself and not feel compelled to tell the world how good you were. Chef Claire shared that trait with Josie who consistently avoided talking about her abilities as a vet, and I continued to be amazed that our small town had been able to secure the services of two people as talented as Chef Claire and Josie. The fact that they, respectively, were experts in food and dogs, the two things I had the most passion about, reinforced the fact that the life I lived was charmed.

At the moment, Josie was feeling less than an expert in her chosen field. It had taken her a while to accept my theory about the dog smuggling operation, but now that she had, she was all in and wracking her brain to figure out a way to get her hands on the four ID numbers of the Lab puppies.

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