Hi, my name is Chloé-Jessica Vermaak. I am 13 years old, when I was 5 years old I got a Foxie x Jack Russell puppy and I named her Skip from the movie My Dog Skip. A year later, she got out of my gate, and when I got home from school my parents told me that she was missing. I burst into tears and ran to my friend’s house just up the road from mine, and I told her that my dog was missing. We looked everywhere for her. My parents and I phoned the SPCA in Maraisburg, they told us that they did not have her, but we decided to go there and check anyway. We found her in one of the kennels reserved for strays. Two years ago when I was 11 years old, we moved to a new house. While I was at school Skip found a hole in the gate and got out again. When I got home I was supposed to go to my Oupa to sleep there, and since Skip used to go almost everywhere with me, I asked my mother “Is Skip coming with us again?” My mother muttered something under her breath, and so I said to her “Pardon?” “Skip is gone,” she said to me. I cried the whole of that night while my father was out looking for her. My mom made fliers that we put up everywhere, and we contacted the vets and SPCAs in the area. All of us walked through our neighbourhood looking for her and knocking on doors, but this time she was gone for good. For many months after that I thought about her, because that was the only thing that made me fall asleep. I never ever stopped thinking about her. On the 4th June 2010, the SPCA in Rustenburg called my mom and told her that they had found Skip. She had been brought in as a stray and when they scanned her, they found that she had an Identipet microchip. One easy phone call to Identipet, and the SPCA were given my mother’s telephone numbers. I was on my way to my friend’s house after school when I phoned my mom, and she told me that I could not go to my friend because she had a surprise for me. Being as stubborn as I am, I told her that I didn’t want a surprise; I just wanted to go to my friend. Then she told me that they had found Skip! I was so excited that I started to cry. My Mom told me that my friend was welcome to come along with us to fetch Skip in Rustenburg. When I saw Skip and she saw me, I picked her up for the first time in two years and just hugged and hugged her. And you know what - she actually remembered me! She was ecstatic to see me. I opened the car for her and she jumped straight in. After that we got some takeaways, and lets just say that in the end I did not get to eat my chips because of a certain sneaky dog. Now she is home, safe and sound! That feeling of knowing that she is home and safe is so warm and fuzzy; it could make anyone light up. Skip would NOT be home now if she didn’t have an Identipet microchip. Thank you Identipet! Chloé-Jessica Vermaak – 13 years old |
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Re-united in 2010!!