Ironic!

The fear associated with losing your best friend can be overwhelming and when it happens to you, overwhelming is an understatement. And if your job is protecting pets then it can be down right embarrassing!

	By George F. Denehy Jr. Sales and Marketing - MobiPetTag Systems Posted: November 29, 2011

Pet Tag Manufacturer Loses Pet

We live in a rural section of Ohio where all the home owners have at least 2 acres and a lot of them have 20 acres or more – mostly wooded with lots of deer and rabbits.

This morning my wife let our dogs and cats (Leon a Corgi, Sadie a Border-Collie and two cats-Samson and Moogle) out early to go to the bathroom – it was still dark and raining pretty hard. After a few minutes Leon and the cats came back in but Sadie was gone into the dark. That is not uncommon and we never worry because Sadie always comes back immediately when we whistle. Even if she is chasing a deer, she always responds to the whistle.

However, this morning with the rain, I guess she could not hear my wife. So she came and got me and I went out into the dark and rain with a weak flashlight and whistle until I couldn’t whistle any more all without any results. So I came in and changed my cloths, put on my boots, got a better flashlight and went back out into the dark rainy woods.

While searching our woods and the adjacent neighbor’s woods I kept thinking how ironic this situation is, because we own MobiPetTag Systems, and we make wireless pet ID tags exactly for these situations (when your pet un-expectantly runs away) and here I’m looking for my own lost dog after she took off.

Even as I was yelling and whistling for Sadie, I kept thinking about how happy I was that she was wearing not only one of our laminated tags but I had put and additional sterling silver tag on her, both with her wireless codes. I also remember thinking that this will make a great marketing story of re-unification using our tags. But then I realized my real feelings about the worry associated with losing a family member and not knowing what has happened to them and wanted to have Sadie back safely and the heck with the marketing idea. My mind kept worrying about if she was injured running through the dark woods or was she stolen, eaten by a coyote or bear or laying in the street after being struck by a car.

After a while without any luck, I decided to put together posters and initiate the phone calls to neighbors, rescue groups, pounds, vets, clinics, facebook lists, twitter and all the other services MobiPetTags offer and thinking I’m glad I am in the business I’m in because I know how to do this – but I’m not supposed to do it for me.

Once back to the house and before starting the hard work of calling everyone I thought I would try driving around the general area checking the roads and fields and then if I didn’t find her I would start the notification routine.

On my second trip around the area, there she was standing alongside the road in a pouring rain in a daze looking completely lost – only a block away on the other side of the woods. I stopped the car in the middle of the road got out and started calling her. She took a while to finally realize who I was but then ran like crazy wagging her tail frantically and jumping into the car.

I had escaped my worst fears and had my Sadie back, but I was still grateful that she had her tags with her when she took off, because I knew there were 167 million searchers out there that would have helped me.

So, the lesson here is always keep you family member tags up to date and on them at all times, because you never know when the un expected event will occur. – Thank God I did.