Here at Gothamist we love a good lost dog story as much as the next blog, so we were happy to read another tale of a pup reunited with their person in the Post today. Earlier this month a 58-year-old man named Bruce, who didn't give his last name, went shopping at the Bowery Whole Foods but left his 5-year-old chihuahua Henry in a fancy dog carrier inside his Porsche Cayenne. When Bruce got back to his car though, it had been broken into and the canine and its carrier was gone (as was a laptop). "He had never left my side since he was 3 months old," Bruce told the paper.
So Bruce went about trying to find Henry, putting up posters and offering a $2,500 reward. But besides a few folk looking to claim the cash, nobody called. Finally, five days later, a vet tech rang up to say that the dog she'd been taking care of for the past five days seemed to match the description. But it didn't have a microchip.
Bruce and his partner quickly went up and picked up the pup and after the vet tech refused the reward they donated the funds to a Chihuahua rescue group in her name. Henry is home now and everyone is happy. Yay! But our question: Why did someone who seems to love their dog so much, and who could afford a Porsche, not get their pup microchipped? It doesn't take long!
