Overview
- ACCT Philly identified the senior dog, Forty‑Cal, as a long‑missing pet after a Good Samaritan’s report led officers to scan his microchip.
- The chip connected to his owner because she updated her contact details about two months earlier, which let the shelter reach her right away.
- Forty‑Cal was taken from the family’s Mayfair backyard more than a decade ago with another dog who was later recovered, and the family kept his lost report active through the years.
- The pit bull, now about 14, looked clean and recently groomed yet seemed confused in the shelter, and his family drove from Luzerne County to bring him home.
- Shelter staff urged owners to register chips and keep them current and reminded finders to ask a vet or shelter to scan strays, noting ACCT Philly scans every incoming animal and microchips only work when activated and updated.