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Hurricane pets reunited with owners thanks to microchips

A GUERNSEY company will be helping to reunite pet owners in the US with animals lost because of Hurricane Harvey.

ID Porte’s Nick Smith with the type of halo microchip scanners it is sending to Texas to help reunite animals and their owners separated by Hurricane Harvey.                                          (Picture by Adrian Miller, 19214692)
ID Porte’s Nick Smith with the type of halo microchip scanners it is sending to Texas to help reunite animals and their owners separated by Hurricane Harvey. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 19214692) / Guernsey Press

ID Porte, formerly known as Pet Technology Store, the inventor of the technology, is donating 10 microchip scanners to Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, which has sent 30 volunteers to Houston, Texas, to help pets and animals left behind or caught up in the disaster.

Director Nick Smith said the organisation had bought a scanner from the company previously and had asked whether it could make a donation towards the cause. The scanners were being posted over.

‘We are very pleased to have been able to help. It is the least we can do,’ he said.

‘They have set up a staging area in Texas where the scanners are being sent.’

He said while people were trying to save their own lives during the hurricane, their animals, unfortunately, came second.

Full story in today's Guernsey Press

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