Overview
- ACCT Philly scanned a senior stray's microchip Saturday night and reached the owners because the contact info was updated two months earlier.
- The family, now in Luzerne County, drove to Philadelphia on Sunday to bring Forty-Cal home, and staff said the 14-year-old looked clean and well cared for.
- Forty-Cal vanished from a Mayfair backyard over a decade ago, with reports citing 2014 or 2015, and the family recovered only their other dog at the time.
- A neighborhood girl first found the friendly dog, brought him inside with her parents, fed him hot dogs, and they called animal control when they could not keep him.
- Shelter officials stress that microchips work only when owners register and keep details current, and they urge finders to have strays scanned before assuming they are unowned.